For those of you who don't know I've been on vacation these past three weeks. My family and I flew home from Boston MA today. This is a story of my experiance in the airports of Boston and Atlanta.

     We arrived at the Boston airport at about 11:30. We turned in the rental car, and got a shuttle over to the check in point of the airport. We quickly found out that there was no curbside check-in so we went inside. Inside there were about fifty people standing around. Everybody looked confused. We got our boarding passes out of a machine. Then we stood around like everybody else. We quickly found out that when your name was called you walked up to the counter and they took your bags to go on the plane. Well, that's great except that there was about three active counters for what was now about 75 people. So we waited around for 30 to 40 minutes, and finally I almost shouted for joy when our name was FINALLY called. We walked up to the counter they took our bags, looked at our boarding passes, and all that stuff. Next we had to go through security. Aparrently there was a new rule that you can't take any kind of LIQUID OR GEL on the plane. That means no water bottles, no shampoo, no lip gloss. Of course people brought those things so the line took FOREVER because of the TSA having to confiscate peoples possessions. So after waiting in the security line for 30 minutes we finally actually went THROUGH the metal detector. It was after I walked through and was reclaiming my shoes, and backpack that I realized I had just gone through all that for nothing. The only reason I had walked through that metal detector was because the TSA didn't trust me. The whole process is designed to intimidate you as much as possible. Typical government action. You're treated like a criminal and not like a civilian. Also the fact that I was wearing a black T-shirt with a white profile of Murray Rothbard that said "Enemy of the State" didn't help.(Black and white are anarchist colors) Sp anyway, we got through security(finally) and went to our gate. We were early so we waited for a while until it was announced that it was time to board. On the way into the airplane TSA officials had to check all our bags AGAIN. I was thinking "wait a minute. We already went through security. I think most of us are sick and tired of the TSA ordering us around. Why are you searching us AGAIN." So anyway we got on the plane. We flew for 2 and a half hours(after a delay of thirty minutes) and the flight attendants were VERY nice. It was like they were trying to make up for the rudeness of the TSA. So we flew and landed in Atlanta. Then we went to baggage claim. We waited about 20 minuetes before the turn thing actually started MOVING, 30 before we got our bags. Then after that we were free from the airport! 

    If some of you are wondering why the TSA has banned all liquids and gels I'll give you the reason. Aparrently in Great Britain some college kids were sitting around talking about how it would be possible to hi-jack a plane using flammable liquids stored in water bottles. These kids were just JOKING around. They got arrested and now because of that the TSA has banned liquids and gels. It's really stuipd. We were in the shuttle on the way to get our car out of the parking lot and one of us found some lip gloss. My Dad sais "Hey we could hijack a plane with this!" as a joke and we all started laughing.

    Back in the 50's everybody could bring guns on a plane and were actually ENCOURAGED to do so. That meant that any fool knew that if he tried pulling a gun on someone everybody else on the plane would shoot him. So there were no terrorist attacks. Then guns were banned and terrorist attacks actually started happening. I can think of many more areas of life where the government has taken over something and made it worse but I will refrain from mentioning them because I could go on for hours. But the airport experiance really made an impression on me. An impression that will never go away. 

-Moderngeek™