Happy New Year From the TSA!

What fresh hell awaits you at airport security checkpoints in 2016?

Fresh off a few big announcements and a wave of publicized transgender harassment at the end of 2015, the TSA apparently is planning to kick it up a notch in the new year.

The huddled masses at airports will no longer be able to opt out of going through body scanners (which might be unlawful in the first place, but who's counting?). Also, if you have the misfortune of living in one of nine of states that have objected to the feds' REAL ID scheme, you may not even be able to use your driver's license to get on a plane. At least the DHS now says the TSA will give you 120 days' notice before invalidating your ID. Happy (first four months of) 2016!

And remember, no ID will save you if you try to bring a vehicle airbag or recreational oxygen aboard your flight, though your five pounds of dry ice are still welcome. Let's keep the fun reasonable, shall we?

Watch below for the behaviors you should and should not exhibit while traveling, lest you be confused for a terrorist.

Comments

[d3x / dt3]

I'm fairly certain that everyone is a terrorist. It's about time that the TSA started banning all people from air travel. For the children.

Now to beef up those VIPR stops to prevent road travel as well!

[Jerryskids]

The TSA terrifies me. You know what that makes them?

[Scarecrow & WoodChipper Repair]

NAZIs?

[d3x / dt3]

Pretty sure just assholes.

[Domestic Dissident]

Joel Kotkin spells out the obvious modern truth: liberals are the new autocrats, and Obama is America's biggest authoritarian since Richard Nixon.

Thank you, Mr. Kotkin. If only the guys at Reason had a quarter of your guts and honesty.

[d3x / dt3]

Yeah, cause when I think Obama supporters, I think of the Reason staff.

Yay! Cake!

[Galactic Chipper Cdr Lytton]

Peter Bagge
1. Who are you voting for in November? If the polls in my home state are close: Obama (McCain is simply too incompetent these days to be president). If not, I'll make a protest vote for Barr.

Ronald Bailey
1. Who are you voting for in November? Obama. The Republicans must be punished and punished hard.

Tim Cavanaugh
1. Who are you voting for in November? Barack Obama. All my life I've been waiting for a black president; Obama's not monumentally unqualified, and his solid-if-boring book at least had some unkind words for teachers unions. Also my kids like him.

[Galactic Chipper Cdr Lytton]

Steve Chapman
1. Who are you voting for in November? Barack Obama, for two main reasons: The Republican Party, which has jettisoned its best inclinations and indulged its worst for the last eight years, richly deserves exile from the White House, and 2) because he shows an intelligence and temperament that suggest he will govern more pragmatically than ideologically?the best that can be hoped for from a Democratic president.

David Weigel
1. Who are you voting for in November? I've got the luxury of a guilt-free, zero-impact vote in the District of Columbia, which I would cast for Bob Barr if he was on the ballot. Since he's not, I'm voting for Barack Obama, the only remaining candidate whom I trust not to run the country (further) into the ground with stupid and erratic decisions, and who (miraculously for a Democrat) has run a less brain-dead, faux-populist campaign than the Republican.

[C. Anacreon]

Whoever it is who keeps insisting that Weigel is Palin's Buttplug may be right. That quote there reads like it is straight from a Shreek post

[croaker]

The pedo ex-priest is still working at Philadelphia International.

[straffinrun]

They're trying to kill Nigel Farage. I don't know who they are.

[Heroic Mulatto]

Labour?

[straffinrun]

Got me. Can't believe the tabloids aren't going with, "Farange has a few screws loose".

[CZmacure]

The idea that one can bring so much dry ice onto an airplane in one's carryon luggage comprehensively proves that the TSA is security theatre.

I mean, FFS???? IT HAS ITS OWN WIKIPEDIA PAGE???

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_ice_bomb

[Will Nonya]

How is this not in violation of the privileges and immunity clause which typically guarantees free movement?