TSA Fondles Women and Children Refusing Airport Naked Body Scanners
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Clearly the Leftist Mafia is discouraging us all from traveling by air while at the same time destroying the airline industry. The Lefties want to herd us all into urban compounds as groups of warring demographics while we descending into 3rd world status. Cute. We pay a lot of taxes for this.
Have you already forgotten about the guy that had explosives in his underwear?! If explovsives can’t be found by using a metal detector, what do you propose the TSA do? Maybe they should just ask everyone if they are carrying anything dangerous or if they are a terrorist. That might protect your right to privacy, but it won’t help my right to fly safely. And by the way, if you think the images from the scanners are pornographic, you need to get out more.
Hey Mike,
Would you like the TSA agents to laugh when you go through the full body scanners and find out that you have a penile implant, a catheter in your bladder, or a colostomy or that your wife or girlfriend has had a mastectomy?
If you don’t mind giving up your 4th amendment right for no probably cause, then be my guest. I, for one, prefer to maintain my right to privacy as an innocent, nonterrorist citizen ofthe US as the Constitution ensures.
Kara, why do you imagine agents will laugh? I fly a lot and I seer professionals trying to stop terrorists. If you have a better solution. Please propose it because I want to fly safely.
Kara,
Would you like it if some guy sneaks explosives on a plane by strapping it between his legs? If you come up with a better technology or system, please let us all know.
Hey all,
I appreciate what you are doing. I also wanted to add that one of the most problematic aspects of the “enhanced pat-downs” is the potential re-traumatization of sexual assault victims. Huge numbers of American citizens have suffered sexual abuse, and subjecting them to violations is likely psychologically destructive.
The next logical step is digital bodily cavity searches.
Great article,
I’ve got an idea to accelerate the effectiveness of your campaign.
Focus your efforts by making an example of ONE airline:
I think results would be faster if your group called the Public/Media Relations of one airline and informed them that “Since every individual airline is complying with this intrusive policy but hiding under the indenity of ‘The Airline Industry As A Whole’, and since we can’t tackle the entire industry, we’re going to boycott ONLY YOUR AIRLINE.” Then, send out a press release: Airline “X” to pay the price for bowing to authority.
This would have several advantages:
1. We the people can protest, but still fly. This is an easy form of protest to make that won’t keep people from meeting their travel needs.
2. You’ll instill panic in the target airline. “Wait, why us? Everyone else is doing it?” “Why not you? We can’t afford to go after everyone else.”
3. The press will have a field day watching & reporting the war between We The People and “Airline X”
4. Offer no terms of compromise or interest in communication: “We are serious about our rights. Any cooperation in infringing upon any one of our rights is tantamount to attacking ALL of our rights. Our goal, therfore, is to SHUT YOU DOWN PERMANENTLY. We will stop when we see the machines removed from all of your gates on TV.
5. When the company cedes to your demands, put out the word to your people that it’s now ok to fly with Airline X–then move on to Airline Y.
6. If the company doesn’t cooperate, your strike will gain momentum as more and more media become interested.
7. The pilots and the unions of the airline are already on your side. They will likely join a strike with you when things heat up.
8. If you actually do shut down an airline–pick the weakest one–the resulting unemployment will further fuel your cause.
9. Once one airline shuts down, the rest will reverse course instantly.
10. Have fun with this. Nothing is funnier than making an opponent beg for “middle ground” so he can try talk you into giving up your cause.
11. Do not correspond with the airlines at all–let them read about what you’re doing in your newspaper press releases.
Seriously, are “we” really that afraid to let Big Brother see a digitally-barely-recognizable-image of your Little Brother? Only a twisted mind would think that a technology that at its core is designed to save lives would be used for “porn” and “fondling”. Shake yourself man. Civil disobedience doesn’t usually mean making innocent holiday travelers suffer. Focus on something else.
You just don’t get it …..so sad …..either that or you work for the tsa .
I travel with my toddler to visit Grandma. So far we have been checked for drugs (his shoes, my hands, his hands and hair), and I have to have him walk through on his own. This body scanning is a parent’s nightmare. If you try to put him in there alone, he will get scared. Not to mention there will be a time when he will be alone and I wont be able to see if someone tries to grab him or something. If you pat him down, he will fight as he does not like strangers touching him – neither do I. Plus the issues with the xrays themselves. I was planning a trip out right after Thanksgiving. I’ve changed my plans.
I had a terrible experience at DIA, the same airport involved with the Alex Jones Staff member. I was putting my 90 year old amputee and wheel chair bound mother on the plane for her annual trip to spend the winter in FLA. The chemical sniffer detected something, and from that point on, she and I were treated horribly. They made my mother get out of her wheelchair so they could search her thoroughly. Read again, this is a frail 90 year old amputee. She was left on a hard surface bench without her proper cushion because they wanted to examin it as well, for over 30 minutes. I am a rehab doc; 30 minutes on a hard surface for a person with at risk skin, is enough to cause a ducubitus ulcer that will never heal. She was finally asked if she had gone to the restroom before coming through security- when she said yes, the screening staff said, “Oh thats it then, the soap in the restrooms reacts to the chemical sniffer- happens all the time.” This ordeal went on for nearly an hour. Since that incident, I champion anyone that wants massive changes in the TSA proceedures.