I would agree with the statement made earlier by Avman
Can this be one of the reasons air travel is suffering so much in the U.S?
I have lived just about nine years in the States whilst doing my university and flight training there. I had a good time and absolutely no problems. I retuned in early 99 and haven’t retuned since. For a while I thought I should give it a go this spring but a recurrent flood of such stories is still keeping me from a weekend in south Florida. Someone mentioned “what if you loos your cool with those sh!t for brains TSA f@t @ss bimbos? Jail? Do you get on the permanent “Axis of evil” list, or even be charged as a wannabe terrorist? At what point is one considered a threat by the TSA? If looking at the security guards too long or in some suspicious way? Perhaps being young, backpacking around and having a pilots licence?
Europeans have been labelled as anti-American lately, though I think that Europeans are not as much anti-American as much as anti Bush Jr. Administration, unfortunately for us all, these new nonsense guidelines won’t disappear with a new administration I’m afraid.