Would you get on an airliner if you knew that terrorists had advance notice that there were open holes in the security that would allow them to easily get a weapon aboard that airliner? Ill bet the 9/11 airline passengers would now wish there was more thorough TSA screening on the day they all died.
Utterly immaterial. At that time, boxcutters were entirely permissable in carry-on luggage. The fact you raise this as a viable counterpoint is somewhat sad and entirely lame.
Do you consider being asked to hold your hands up for 3 seconds is being treated like a criminal? If so, 80,000 criminals in Houston were cheering for their favorite Super Bowl team a few weeks ago
Wow, you are really reaching here. Holding your hands up differs from holding your hands up in a scanning device.
Do you think being scanned by an ultra low-dose x-ray is the same as being, (her words, not mine) Raped?
I don't, but I cannot speak for other's perceptions, and they may not like being subjected to even minimal amounts of X-rays. Genetic damage is cumulative, so I won't fault them for this.
What then is a low dose dental x-ray to detect cavities in the few teeth you have left? Forced oral sodomy?
You decry my 'Alsisky-style attack'(sic) and then proceed to claim I have few teeth. Psychotic, heal thyself.
I personally have no problems with low-dose dental X-rays, but I cannot claim that others do not.
You may find it harder to answer those questions that to just make an ad hominum Alsisky-style attack as you often do.
Your questions were both easy and, in at least one case, utterly immaterial.
Oh, and it's "Alinsky" and "ad hominem".
Hope that helps heaps.
Laz, as you may know, “rape scan” is a take-off of the brand name of the backscatter machines: Rapiscan Systems. The images they produce show our nude bodies in detail. So, while not technically “rape,” it’s certainly a violation of our bodies.
Nice analysis of the trollish comments there, by the way. :-)
Laz, I respect your work here over the years.
This got a bit out of control. My concept was and is very simple. Security screenings are no fun. They are however, in today’s world a necessary evil.
Occasionally, shit happens, but having an x-ray pointed at a person is not rape. Being touched on the outside of one’s clothes in the search for a weapon is not earth shattering, and having secondary screening is not a reason to lose all one’s cool, especially if one expects to be thought of as someone with enough self-control to carry a deadly weapon.... and decide in a fraction of second whether or not to take someone’s life with that weapon.
If we expect to be heard and respected when we raise important points affecting our country, we all need to chose our battles and not go ape sheet over flea sheet.
With FRegards.