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Nude Scan Or Groping Hand?
Liberty Juice ^ | 11/22/2010 | Chris Bounds

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 TSA’s 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. Isn’t that a shocker!

Living in post 9/11 world, security is certainly on every American’s 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 agent’s 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:

Video

While the whole story behind the shirtless boy isn’t 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!


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics; Travel
KEYWORDS: grope; scanner; tsa; tsapervs
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1 posted on 11/22/2010 5:35:21 AM PST by ChrisBoundsTX
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To: ChrisBoundsTX

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.


2 posted on 11/22/2010 5:41:03 AM PST by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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To: ChrisBoundsTX

The real scandal is the silence of the airlines.


3 posted on 11/22/2010 5:41:32 AM PST by Zuben Elgenubi
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To: ChrisBoundsTX
TSA Forces Woman To Cut Off Her Nipple Rings With Pliers
This video shows one woman slammed to the floor for arguing with a TSA agent.
Another 71 year-old man with a knee implant describes how TSA pulled down his
pants. A 16 year-old girl with a prosthetic leg has her pants removed."


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 O’HARE 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 Won’t Touch Muslims’ Junk"


Obama Gives a Pass: TSA Won’t Touch Muslims’ Junk"


Terrorists hiding in hijabs—Muslims 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 daughter’s 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 He’s 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.
============= CLICK HERE=========


Napolitano Considering Allowing Muslim Women to Pat Themselves Down at Airports"


Senator Kerry 'Liveshot' lives in no-pat-down zone (Avoiding TSA for the very special non-taxpaying people)"


Young Boy Strip Searched By TSA"


TSA pat-down leaves traveler covered in urine (Non-muslim bladder cancer survivor) A retired special education teacher on his way to a wedding in Orlando, Fla., said he was left humiliated, crying and covered with his own urine after an enhanced pat-down by TSA officers recently at Detroit Metropolitan Airport."


Enhanced pat down leaves Grand Rapids airline passenger in tears "The female officer ran her hand up the inside of my leg to my groin and she did it so hard and so rough she lifted me off my heels," I yelped. I was in pain for about an hour afterwards. It just felt excessive and unnecessary.""


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 Makes Cancer Victim Remove Prosthetic Breast A flight attendant and cancer survivor said she was forced to remove and show her prosthetic breast to a TSA agent during a security pat-down."


My Very Own TSA Nightmare - new category of suspect persons to the TSA: "traveling with scars" They took me aside and did the pat-down, feeling all over my body as is their habit. Then the TSA officer proceeded to feel my stomach as if I were a pregnant woman. He explained that I had a hard patch on my stomach and they wanted to check it and make sure it was all me. It was painful and disturbing. I informed the TSA officer that it was the scar from my colon cancer operation that went from my crotch to my sternum. A day later the scar still hurts from the kneading and prodding."


TSA Full-Body Scans Would Not Pass Hospital IRB Reviews An IRB is an Institutional Review Board, a group of physicians, scientists, lawyers, ethicists, and members of the community which meets periodically to review and approve or disapprove research projects.... If the IRB judges the risks outweigh the benefits, the research is denied."


The demand came last week from the politically-connected Muslim rights organization (CAIR) that serves as the U.S. front for the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas. Janet Napolitano is actually considering exempting Muslims as per CAIR's demands."



"Former Orlando TSA officer gets probation in sex-slave case



A former Orlando TSA security officer arrested for allegedly molesting a minor pleaded
no contest to one charge today and was sentenced to 10 years' sex-offender probation.
A victim told deputies Bennett asked her to be his sex slave
and fondled her against her will."


"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 officer charged in boy's kidnap attempt - Police in Idaho say man also possessed documents for 5 separate identities"


"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"


"Child rape charge rocks TSA"


"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"



"...J. Brian Doyle, the former fourth-ranking official in DHS's propaganda directorate,
who was arrested for conducting sexually explicit cyber-conversations with what he thought was a
cancer-stricken 14-year-old girl."


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."


"SCARY But Ignored: Terrorist Spies Successfully Infiltrated Top Classified US Cyber-Files
in March, a TSA employee was allowed to remain at his computer-
and inserted a virus-after he knew his TSA employment was terminated."""


"USB Stick May Have Contributed to Deadly Plane Crash
A corrupted USB stick contributed to Spain's worst air disaster on record,
according to a 12,000-page report cited by the Spanish newspaper El Pais and USA Today.
It was initially believed that the crash of Flight 5022 that killed 154 people in 2008
was the result of pilot error, but investigators have now concluded that
a computer infection spread through an infected USB stick may have contributed to the crash."""


"Are External USB Drives a Target for Espionage?"""


4 posted on 11/22/2010 5:43:02 AM PST by Diogenesis ('Freedom is the light of all sentient beings.' - Optimus Prime)
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To: ChrisBoundsTX

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?


5 posted on 11/22/2010 5:49:57 AM PST by silverleaf (All that is necessary for evil to succeed, is that good men do nothing)
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To: ChrisBoundsTX

the airlines and the government are behaving quite strangely. this is a very telling situation that the terrorists have won.


6 posted on 11/22/2010 5:52:30 AM PST by television is just wrong
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To: ChrisBoundsTX

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.


7 posted on 11/22/2010 5:54:38 AM PST by sport
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To: silverleaf
Disband the TSA and send all the agents to patrol the southern border....

their experience in close encounters with various body parts will come in handy (no pun intended) when drug carriers are aprehended.

8 posted on 11/22/2010 5:58:27 AM PST by spokeshave (Islamics and Democrats unite to cut off Adam Smith's invisible hand)
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To: ChrisBoundsTX

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....


9 posted on 11/22/2010 6:15:31 AM PST by freebilly (No wonder the left has a boner for Obama. There's CIALIS in soCIALISt....)
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To: ChrisBoundsTX

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.


10 posted on 11/22/2010 6:28:16 AM PST by Leftism is Mentally Deranged (Annoying liberals is my goal. I will not be silenced.)
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To: Diogenesis

Thanks for the compilation.


11 posted on 11/22/2010 6:28:41 AM PST by paudio (The differences between Clinton and 0bama? About a dozen former Democratic Congressmen.)
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To: ChrisBoundsTX
Boortz talking right now how a bladder cancer survivor tried to tell a TSA agent that he could not run his hand down his chest because he would knock loose a seal which makes sure that urine goes into a collection bag.

The TSA agent ignored him, broke the seal and the man got soaked in urine and could not clean himself up until he got to his plane and the plane took off!!!

TSA Pat-Down Soaks Man in Own Urine
12 posted on 11/22/2010 6:36:03 AM PST by Eagle of Liberty (formally known as Kerretarded....I changed my name)
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To: Eagle of Liberty
RAPISCAN SYSTEMS - FOLLOW THE MONEY!
13 posted on 11/22/2010 6:41:29 AM PST by Eagle of Liberty (formally known as Kerretarded....I changed my name)
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To: ChrisBoundsTX

Myself and hundreds of others went through SEA-TAC sat morning without feeling like cattle, and not getting scanned or patted-down.


14 posted on 11/22/2010 7:09:26 AM PST by stuartcr (When politicians politicize issues, aren't they just doing their job?)
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To: Eagle of Liberty
OSI SYSTEMS - Rapiscan's Parent Company

Chairman and CEO - Deepak Chopra



Deepak Chopra founded our company. Since its founding, Mr. Chopra has served as our President, Chief Executive Officer and a Director. He has served as Chairman of our Board of Directors since 1992.

Mr. Chopra also serves as the President and Chief Executive Officer of our major subsidiaries. From 1976 to 1979 and from 1980 to 1987, Mr. Chopra held various positions with ILC Technology, Inc., a publicly traded manufacturer of lighting products, including serving as Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, President and Chief Operating Officer of its United Detector Technology division. Mr. Chopra has also held various positions with Intel Corporation, TRW Semiconductors and RCA Semiconductors. Mr. Chopra holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electronics and a Master of Science degree in Semiconductor Electronics.


Security biz gearing up to tap opportunities - March 5, 2009

While the general mood in the industry is down, and every one is struggling to come to terms with the impact of economic recession, one sector that is seeing robust growth is the security business.

Mr Deepak Chopra, President and Chief Executive Officer of OSI Systems Inc, a fast-growing player in the security business worldwide, says, “We live in a dangerous world, and securing and safeguarding lives is becoming very important.”

The Mumbai terror attacks and the increasing threats India faces pose big challenges to companies in the security business. OSI Systems, through its Rapiscan Systems, which has a major presence in India, is gearing to tap the opportunities.

The $700-million turnover, California-based, OSI Systems has three business groups — security, healthcare and Opto-electronics and manufacturing. The security business contributes over $300 million of the turnover. It has over 3,500 employees worldwide and 600 in India.


AND WHERE DID DEAR LEADER HEAD TO RIGHT AFTER THE NOV ELECTIONS?
15 posted on 11/22/2010 7:17:52 AM PST by Eagle of Liberty (formally known as Kerretarded....I changed my name)
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To: Eagle of Liberty
Rapiscan Systems Awarded Approximate $3 Million Contract from U.S. Government Agency for Newly Launched Rapiscan Secure 1000 Portable Body Scanner - Torrance, CA - 7/6/2010

Rapiscan Systems, a leading supplier of security inspection systems, today announced that it was awarded an approximate $3 million order from an undisclosed United States Government Agency for its newly released Rapiscan Secure 1000MP (modular and portable).

The Rapiscan Secure 1000MP was developed specifically for applications that require rapid deployment, mobility and durability, as well as superior threat detection. The system provides the same detection capabilities as the Rapiscan Secure 1000 Single Pose solution that is being deployed by airports worldwide, but in a portable configuration. The system produces high-resolution images that enable detection of concealed threats and contraband items. The Rapiscan Secure 1000MP is ideal for high security environments because both organic (i.e. solid and liquid explosives, narcotics, ceramic weapons, etc.) and inorganic (i.e. metal) materials are easily identified in the resulting image.

16 posted on 11/22/2010 7:20:37 AM PST by Eagle of Liberty (formally known as Kerretarded....I changed my name)
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To: Eagle of Liberty
Rapiscan Secure 1000

CERTIFICATION: The United States Department of Homeland Security has certified the Rapiscan Secure 1000 as an approved product for homeland security. For more information please visit www.safetyact.gov.
17 posted on 11/22/2010 7:24:49 AM PST by Eagle of Liberty (formally known as Kerretarded....I changed my name)
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To: Diogenesis

Excellent work again, Diogenesis!


18 posted on 11/22/2010 7:25:16 AM PST by Caipirabob ( Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Eagle of Liberty
SAFETYACT.GOV
19 posted on 11/22/2010 7:25:41 AM PST by Eagle of Liberty (formally known as Kerretarded....I changed my name)
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To: ChrisBoundsTX
Gee, your thread is full of links!

The only one missing is a Direct Link To The Video.

No worries, that'll do it!
20 posted on 11/22/2010 7:50:58 AM PST by shibumi (Wily Pablo loves Flank Steak Tacos)
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