Ew!!! I would be so so so tempted to "accidentally" spill my drink all over the place.

It's also a tacit admission by the TSA that they know their process for screening concessionaire supplies is ineffective.

Completely disgusting and even more frightening is how willing everyone is to allow them to test their beverages. And ewww...did you see the one TSA goon wiping her nose with her hand?

What the heck is in those test strips they use? I don't want to drink that.

Oh goody! Another reason to add to those of why I don't fly! I desperately want to go to my nephew's wedding in Florida later this year. I will drive.

Feckin TSA. I hate them. Hate them with the heat of a thousand suns! May the fleas of a thousand camels infest every single one of their crotches. And then some.

It's really very simple: just have the guts to say "no, thank you". What are they going to do?

It's even more ridiculous than the article says. Not only have the drinks been purchased in the secure zone, but people are drinking them.

Really, no one wants to make a scene, but it is past time. Polite, but firm: "no, thank you."

p.s. The comments to the article at InfoWars are pretty sad: the number of conspiracy-theorists, the number of people who, though they may be objecting, have no clue just what they are objecting to or why it is important. "This is a ploy to gather DNA", "Flying supports fascism", "All TSA agents are democrats", and other amazingly idiotic tripe. Absolutely pathetic...

I work for a software company that has small customers that have no IT staff. A co-worker mentioned flying us out to troubleshoot a customers issues.

I told my boss "I refuse to fly."
Her: "Why?"
Me: "TSA"
Her: "You don't like to be groped?"
Me: "No, I don't like my Fourth Amendment violated for something totally ineffective."

I then articulated the argument I will post in a moment. Apparently it had never been pointed out to them. I felt really bad about it. I thought I had mentioned it to them before.

Please absorb the main points and repeat them far and wide.

so the theory is that some person brought some powder that when added to water makes a dangerous compound. Since the powder is hard to detect they need to test the soft drinks in the safe zone. Of course this could easily be avoided by said dangerous person by a $5 bottle of water on the plane to mix the powder with.

Added a small paragraph about Lockerbie, but all you regular readers of the Goddess' blog you can skip past this post. I'm going to post my regular rant about not needing the TSA. For all you new readers, please read it carefully and refute any statement or misstatement. ;-)

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The TSA was not needed one hour and one minute after Tower II was hit!

The paradigm, the norm, the expected, what everyone was taught to do was to sit down, shut up and wait for the plane to land and the negotiations happen. That was the model from Entebbe onward.

The passengers on board did not really know what was about to happen on September 11, 2001 at 8:46:30 when Flight 11 struck Tower I.

Even the passengers on Flight 175 probably didn't realize what was about to happen when they struck Tower II at 9:03:02.

The Pentagon crash of Flight 77 at 9:37:46 may have been still a matter of ignorance.

At 10:03:11 on September 11, 2001, United Airlines Flight 93 crashed after the brave souls counter-attacked and caused the hijackers to crash the plane.

The time difference is 60 minutes and 9 seconds from Tower II being struck to the crash of Flight 93. The shoe bomber and panty bomber were taken down by fellow passengers as well. Recently, JetBlue's Flight 191 pilot was taken down by the passengers once he was out of the cockpit. Additionally how many times have you heard of passengers' concerns and diverted flights?

The TSA is and has always been a joke, no make that a total stupidity, that has wasted our country's fortune going down a rabbit hole.

If you don't believe me look at the 9/11 timeline.

There will never be another 9/11 style attack unless the attackers can arrange planes full of geriatrics, and even then it would be doubtful.

Oh, and someone brought bombs being an issue. If bombs were effective and simple then the Lockerbie bombing would have been repeated multiple times between 21 December 1988 and 11 September 2001. That's 4647 days or 13 years. Where was the TSA in that time?

The much vaunted 2006 liquid bomb plot on which this nonsense is all based completely collapsed in court and was revealed to be farcical at best.

Perhaps a history lesson is in order.

Grrrr....

by testing drinks purchased by travelers for explosives inside the airport long after they have already passed security.

Well, if the travelers are purchasing them for explosives I can understand the concern.