Leslie

Hardly a teabagger website, eh?

Interesting, some flyers report going through the scanner and then still being pulled aside for fingering.

Sally Redux

Yes, that is interesting.

Leslie

I honestly can't fathom one woman ordering another woman to remove her sanitary napkin. Absolutely unbelievable.

Sally Redux

By designating it as a 'foreign object' she presumably felt it was justified...unfortunately the kind of behaviour being described has been seen often in studies where one group is given power over another.

Leslie

Of course. And I know the internet "rule" about bringing up Nazism but the parallels are blatant and, in this particular case, it is completely appropriate to mention them.

Sally Redux

The Germans have a good phrase for those who happily go along with this kind of thing: Begeisterte Mifahrer.

Leslie

What is the literal translation?

chartreuse

Quite. As somebody pointed out earlier, this is not a left/right thing.

Lissbovavd

The literal translation would be something like "Enthusiastic passengers" - pretty apt in this context....

Sally Redux

Yes that's right, it's kind of hard to translate exactly, it has the sense of wide-eyed happy fools along for the ride.

Lissbovavd

A very true and apt observation indeed.

There are some liberal democrats who seem to be defending the new and invasive TSA regulations, as well as quite a few conservative Tea Party followers who are equally condemning of the same rules.

It would seem that the views on this contentious subject are highly divisive and quite unpredictable from a party political point of view.

Leslie

Cheers.

Yeah, seems apropos.

Leslie

I think it's along the lines of, "I don't like you so you must always be wrong. Even when you're right."

Much like aspects of this thread.

Sally Redux

It was specifically used for people who went along with the Nazis by not being against them, if that makes sense, but is still used now.

scrubbedexpat099

Standing in line to get through security, all those people packed into a small area, always struck me as being a really good target.

If you look at the totality of the terrorist threat, and just give a quick thought about how you would allocate resources to combat it, how it is being done makes very little sense.