I am sitting in the American terminal at O’Hare as I type. This is the first time traveling with the new rules. I can’t get scanned and was lucky enough that after 40 minutes in line, to get a standard metal detector. While in line, I watched a woman opt out of the XRay. The agent cupped the enderside of both breasts and ran her hands around the inside waist band of this womans pants. There was a collective gasp in line. It was humiliating. After I went through I turned around to look while putting my shoes on. A little girl no more than 10 was patted down and an Asian gentleman had his package cupped from behind. I was so upset I called my husband. I will be driving as much as possible but I travel for my job. What have we become?
This was a US airport? This isn’t a memory of Berlin, 1939?
No, I am not even slightly joking.
My daughter is 5 months pregnant so she obviously will opt out of a scan. Are they going to lift her shirt to make sure she is really pregnant? What about women who wear really padded bras or other types of one piece under garments? Will they have to remove them?
The majority of people on FR are smart enough to know that this is definately a violation of our rights but if you listen to people being interviewed at airports they are more than willing to bend over and grab their ankles for this false sense of security.
We really are living in bizarro land