This video made me queasy. Keep that in mind before watching. Just the power imbalance from one fully-dressed person inspecting one who is not dressed at all – that is disgusting and scary. I’m skeptical this will come to airports, but, just a couple months ago, how many would have expected TSA groping that is tantamount to sexual assault?
I would think that the American people would riot if TSA were to try something like this. However, a couple of months ago, I would have expected the American people would have rioted if TSA had tried to nude-o-scope or “enhanced pat-down” average flyers too, but I was wrong there, so who knows?
No riots, but a growing protest featuring the “Jamaican Bobsledder Cool Runnings” scrotum eggs… https://bit.ly/bpR7Ac
Yes, but the video clearly says “Be professional”.
TSA? Not so much.
The American people eat GMO processed junk food, drink fluoridated contaminated water, and keep voting for liars and puppets, all without rioting. They watch indecent crap on television, Hollywood movies made with 14 year old boys in mind, and put up with militarized police, all with very little complaint. They allow the government to dish out corporate wealthfare by the ton, and send 20 thousand dollars per year to every Israeli citizen while they watch people in Africa starve and those in Haiti die in rubble and filth, all without a serious or determined complaint. They hand over their children to DCS and inferior public schools and pay for years on a college education if they can get one at all, and blame themselves when things go wrong. I don’t know where the federal government and the corporations would have got the idea that Americans can be lied to, robbed, and pushed around without too much trouble. And if they do get any big ideas there are always the tasers and the microwave weapons and the secret prisons, tortures, and FEMA prison camps to back them up. I wonder just how bad it has to get before we finally all stand up together and actually DO something that will work against this tyranny that is laughing at us as they rape us and our children.
WeWontFly.com, I love the work you do to rally resistance to TSA overreach. But I think this video is scare-mongering by Reason.tv, passed on by you. Combined with the last post, a CNN video apparently over two years old, I think you overreaching as well. It erodes your credibility.
If you’re going to post this fluff, at least put on a disclaimer that you know it’s fluff. There’s serious work to be done, and plenty of real news to report.
A video just 6 weeks ago about possible invasive patdowns might have fallen into the same category but it would have been prescient.
So what if the video is two years old? How is that important?
I’m not afraid to push the envelope here and we will continue to do so. Thanks for your comment tho, I do appreciate it.
Somewhat off topic, but the TSA is not a law enforcement agency?? “TSA is not a law enforcement agency; they only want you to think they are.” — https://www.consumertraveler.com/today/tsa-admits-to-punishing-travelers/
How can they detain people then? Is this why all they could do was threaten to sue in civil court for $11,000 if individuals walk out? Something stinks here.
I think the problem is that people can’t believe that our beloved government “of the people, by the people, and for the people” has been taken over from inside by a bunch of perverts who are out to humiliate, degrade, rob, and break the will of the people they do not even pretend to serve anymore. When people can believe this, they might demand justice and liberty for all. Until then, this sort of thing will get worse. Quit trying to figure out why, and DO something to correct the problem. Write letters, file lawsuits, make others aware. What would Paul Revere do, or George Washington, or Alexander Hamilton?
George Washington wouldn’t have done anything. He was a slaveowner. He made his money by exploiting people, degrading them, robbing them of their labor, humiliating them, and denying them basic human rights. I don’t remember whether Hamilton or Revere owned slaves or not.
Our founding fathers were human beings. That means they had many faults, both personal faults and faults of the era, some of them severe. However they were still able to reach down in their soul and find greatness. They left us a system where citizens are sovereign. Now it’s true that while we have been sleeping the ticks and fleas have been running the show. That’s about to change. Are you with us or agin’ us?
What point are you trying to make about everyone being human beings? Janet Napolitano is a human being too. So are all the people implementing this scanner and enhanced pat-down policy. My point is that people only seem to be horrified and indignant about these kinds of abuses when it happens to them, or to someone that they feel is like them. My other point is that we need to take the founding fathers off the pedestal upon which many people place them. If your “faults” ( or rather, “choices”) deny me my liberty, my rights, or my dignity then what makes you think that you have any claim to being “great”? The founding fathers left us a system in which white male citizens with property are sovereign and in which certain people, regardless of their and their ancestors being born in this land, could never be considered citizens. They would probably be horrified at the thought of anyone not a member of their particular social class being able to vote one of their descendants out of office.
He probably wouldn’t have done anything if it were being done to slaves; that is true. But if the Queen’s soldiers were doing it to him before he could travel anywhere (lest some “wild Indians” or crazy slaves, your pick, blow up the coach) I guarantee he would have objected. So if no one in government is objecting, I have to conclude by your logic, that they consider us all their SLAVES! So I think we agree.
if that would happen, I SURE AS HELL will NOT BE FLYING AT ALL. Especially with children. Can you imagine how this would make children feel.
My gosh.
Absolutely horrible.
I will drive. I guess we will be spendsing even more quality time together on the road as a family. I do not mind at all.
At least we will have some dignity.
I guess soon, we will have to be scanned to drive our cars on the road daily.geesh
@ Delmar With respect, your comments aren’t helping solve the problem of the public being sexually abused. Whether what you say about the Founding Fathers is true or not, it was an acknowledged part of the communist agenda of the cold war to break down American morale by smearing shame on the Founders of the USA. It is a well known tactic. The Civil Rights Movement was successful. It would be beneficial, if you are in fact with us against these scanners, to educate us on ways to connect and end this reign of abuse and terror. Before the internet many brave African Americans communicated through churches. Who knows how much longer we can count on the internet, since the censorship has begun with the takeover of so many websites for alleged copyright infractions. I think that using churches to spread the message would be an excellent backup strategy, and you sound like the man who could be a leader in this.