Posted on 11/22/2010 5:35:20 AM PST by ChrisBoundsTX
As you progress through lines at the airport like cattle towards the security checkpoint, you will face a tough question. Will you step into the body scanners and smile with your arms above your head while a government-issued Peeping Tom leers at your naked body in a remote location, or will you opt out and choose the groping session from a friendly TSA agent and their latex glove? I know both options sound so appealing!
The backlash against the TSAs new security procedures has been mounting daily and with good reason. What is being sold as a procedure vital to enhancing airport safety has nearly led to nearly an all out revolt by airline pilots, passengers, and airport operators. It is almost like nobody wants their junk seen or touched. Isnt that a shocker!
Living in post 9/11 world, security is certainly on every Americans mind, especially in an airport. The last thing Americans want is jetliners being used as missiles in another terrorist attack. Therefore, if body scanners can be implemented in security procedures to prevent all types of weapons and explosives from ever making their way onto an airplane, why not use them? If only that were true.
At best body scanners pose as an enhanced metal detector. As people grudgingly step forward to be digitally stripped searched, the Peeping Tom will see a very detailed picture (which apparently can be inverted to color) of your exposed body. If you are stupid enough to carry a gun, knife, or some sort of explosive with metal parts you will pretty much be caught with your pants down. However, if you were to hide something within your cavity or possess liquid or power substances for ill intensions (like blowing up an airplane) the body scanner will most likely not reveal anything more incriminating than your junk. And in that case who cares about radiation exposure.
Are you a bit shy about posing nude on a closed circuit television in front of a stranger for your first time? Worry not, because there is an alternative. It may cost you some embarrassment and a little bit of dignity though!
The TSA has made it clear that you are able to opt out of the body scanners. In lieu of the digital strip search you will instead meet with a friendly TSA agent waiting to give you the government hand job special. It works much like a typical pat down, or love pats as Senator McCaskill described which comprises of a TSA agents hand running up your leg until they touch the crotch area. Then they are to inspect the waistband of your underwear. Women will experience a little extra groping around their breasts. But, in the case of this young boy the shirt was completely removed:
While the whole story behind the shirtless boy isnt clear, I have to say that ridicules is right! Add humiliated to that and it describes what some others feel, like the cancer-surviving woman who was forced to remove her prosthetic breast. A woman from Ohio claims to have been sexually assaulted by a TSA screener during aggressive pat down procedures. Another woman had her blouse unbuttoned by a TSA agent, exposing her breasts to the on looking crowd. Men are not immune to humiliation by the TSA. Consider the man who had his urostomy bag broken during a private pat down (which by the way are free of charge) causing urine to leak down his leg and on his clothes.
Is this what Americans should get used to at the airport from now on? Big Sis and the TSA say yes, but Americans are fighting back! The shock of being partially molested at checkpoints, as Senior Vice-President of Southwest Airlines stated, is going to create issues. Those issues are including lawsuits, which some by passengers, states, and even pilots are pursuing. Airports are looking to opt out by replacing the TSA with private security firms. New York City lawmakers are even considering banning the invasive body scan machines all together.
If you have a flight in your Thanksgiving travel plans you may be making the decision of whether to allow a government employee take a peek at your goods on a computer monitor or to allow a TSA agent to make it to second base without the common courtesy of asking for your phone number for a call back.
It is a tough decision to make, but you must make it wisely. Once you start the security check process you cannot leave without completing it or you could be slapped with a $10,000 fine. Enjoy your flight!
Our policies promote terror.
The risk should not be upon the freedom and liberty of law abiding citizens, but upon the enemies of the Constitution.
Identify those who seek to harm us actively in violation of the US Constitution, and take the war to them.
The only reason we do not is because we are spoiled and fail to have adequate virtue to recognize the US Constitution as a truthful expression of how we are to be governed.
The real scandal is the silence of the airlines.
TSA Forces 12 Year-Old Girl Traveling Without Parents Through Naked Scanner"
Enhanced pat down leaves Grand Rapids airline passenger in tears"
TSA should actually be called T&A [sdcraigo]"
House Republicans Clobber TSA, Insider Deals On Nudie Scanners"
House Republicans Clobber TSA, Insider Deals On Nudie Scanners"
SHOCK VIDEO: MASSIVE LINES ALREADY AT OHARE CHECKPOINT..."
Obama stands by controversial air security screening methods"
Refuse to be groped or scanned - face $11,000 fine and/or arrest"
Obama Gives a Pass: TSA Wont Touch Muslims Junk"
Obama Gives a Pass: TSA Wont Touch Muslims Junk"
Terrorists hiding in hijabsMuslims seek special treatment to elude TSA groping"
Profile Muslims or Pat Down the Masses?"
Profile Muslims or Pat Down the Masses?"
Profile Muslims or Pat Down the Masses?"
Profile Muslims or Pat Down the Masses?"
TSA Forces 12 Year-Old Girl Traveling Without Parents Through Naked Scanner"
Enhanced pat down leaves Grand Rapids airline passenger in tears"
TSA should actually be called T&A [sdcraigo]"
100 Naked Scanner Images Made Public"
CAIR Tells Muslim Women Wearing Hijabs to Allow ONLY Head and Neck Pat Downs"
Governor Palin Calls Out the TSA for Extreme Political Correctness"
HILLARY: NO BODY SEARCH FOR ME..."
Body scanner saved 35,000 naked images"
Pilot to Hannity: The TSA wanted to see my penis"
Mom upset about 12-yr old daughters full body security scan experience"
Obama: The rights of Muslim suicide bombers come before the rights of US citizens"
Senators and TSA Defend Love Pats at Airports"
Soros Scores on Scanners [Invested with psychic precision]"
Terahertz/Submillimeter Activity Radiation (TSA-Rays) will melt your DNA, physicists find."
DHS Head Chertoff Using His Position To Profit For Company Hes Employed By"
video: Ted Poe (R-TX) ties Michael Chertoff to TSA abuse"
Airport Scanners Sparking Litigation and Protests."
Woman says her Lambert security screening was sexual assault"
Homeland Security chairman to TSA: 'Reconsider' pat-downs"
Is the TSA allowing convicted rapists to perform pat-down searches?"
This is the picture they release.
ADULTS ONLY: Click on it to see the inverse.
NOTICE: It is too graphic for a thread.
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Napolitano Considering Allowing Muslim Women to Pat Themselves Down at Airports"
Young Boy Strip Searched By TSA"
Qaeda's surgical strike: Breast & butt bombs [UNDETECTABLE by TSA]"
Gov Sarah Palin tweets to TSA: Profile!"
How to Think About the Tiny Cancer Risk Posed by Airport Scanners"
Schneier on Security - TSA Backscatter X-ray Backlash"
TSA Creeps Force Cancer Survivor to Expose Prosthetic Breast"
"TSA officer charged in boy's kidnap attempt"
"TSA airport screener arrested for child porn also worked at Catholic school; Questions remain"
(How-many-tsa-sex-offendersDHS doc on TSA screenings from 2004)"
"A Review of Background Checks for Federal Passenger and Baggage Screeners at Airports" (pdf file)"
"Thread dedicated to TSA Criminal Activity"
"Former Orlando TSA officer gets probation in sex-slave case"
"TSA airport screener arrested for child porn also worked at Catholic school; Questions remain"
"TSA Agent Arrested at LAX (TSA using drugs at a party)"
"TSA Agent Accused of Harboring Fugitive"
"TSA officer at DIA arrested in connection with luring child online"
"TSA screener arrested for drug theft at Little Rock airport"
"TSA Worker Arrested On Drug, Gun Charges"
" Memos Detail TSA Officer's Cocaine Pranks Worker joked about finding drugs in luggage"
"TSA screener arrested for beating co-worker"
"TSA Agent: "I am god, I'm in charge""
"TSA officer among duo arrested for stealing from fliers' luggage at JFK"
"TSA- Screener Charged With Raping 14 Year Old Girl"
"TSA Agent arrested for sex crimes www.privateofficer.com"
"TSA Employee Steals Over $200,000 in Electronics"
"TSA Forces Woman To Remove Nipple Rings
Compliments of BossLady Friday, November 19, 2010"
Sadeq Naji Ahmed - the Transportation Security Administration
hired him as an airport screener after the Air Force kicked him out for making
statements supporting Osama bin Laden and praising the 9/11 attacks.
Ahmed worked almost a year before enough people at the TSA found that
he previously had his security clearance revoked and had to let him go."
"Are External USB Drives a Target for Espionage?"""
Anecdotally, it is starting to sound like if you’re “hot” (young and attractive) or have a prosthetic curiosity, you get both the naked photo and the grope. (Purely random of course... Ho Ho Ho)
And if you refuse, you are not allowed to leave the area and can get fined $11,000 - to pay for TSA Christmas party and bonuses. Ho Ho Ho.
Who trained these TSA workers? Former guards at Abu Ghraib?
the airlines and the government are behaving quite strangely. this is a very telling situation that the terrorists have won.
The muslim world declared war on the people of the United States, including its Government.
In 2008, using traitors,people whom themselves are too nervous to steal from others, but, are perfectly willing for the Government to so long as they get a share, idiots, and fools put a muslim in the White House.
2009 this Government Declared war on the American non muslim people.
their experience in close encounters with various body parts will come in handy (no pun intended) when drug carriers are aprehended.
What’s to prevent a terrorist from hiding an explosive device in his rectum (the jokes write themselves). The pat down wouldn’t find it. I suppose the next step would be for the TSA to rectify the problem....
Millions of people will pass through this process and become just a little more like the sheep that the government wants to turn us into.
Thanks for the compilation.
Myself and hundreds of others went through SEA-TAC sat morning without feeling like cattle, and not getting scanned or patted-down.
Excellent work again, Diogenesis!
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