You’re awfully obsessed with this column and thread, aren’t you? It’s quite a lot like a liberal to attempt to conflate non-related issues. What happened to me is different than the horrible experiences of rape victims (although you are clueless about my past, not knowing what I’ve had happen to me). There are varying types of sexual assault, one kind of which I received on Saturday, and I OWE NO ONE AN APOLOGY.
This report is about our lost liberty, and the fact that you are unable or unwilling to see it makes me wonder what your purpose here is.
Ma’am, if you can’t tell the difference between bring really raped and having an x-ray, if you can’t tell the difference between holding your hands up to shoulder height as millions do every day versus being treated like a criminal, if you think someone purposely made the machine false alarm on you, and if these things push you, as you described it, into such a rage and dis-associative state that you are seriously enraged to the point you were, even before you were “touched”, then I politely suggest, for your own sake, you either obtain help for this or do not fly commercially in the future.
Regardless of the cause, you are paying too high a price for the convenience of air travel.
TSA is not going to go away. Right now, you are obviously paying a very high emotional price for something the rest of us see as an inefficient pain in the arse that affords us at least a modicum of safety, and getting there in 1/10 the time.
Quite frankly, I am much more angry at the airlines increasingly smaller and smaller seats, less leg room and horrible service than I am at TSA foolishness.
I sincerely hope you can find away to avoid that pain in the future.
Good luck.
No, I am not obsessed with anything or anyone. I simply pointed out that you are equating an obtrusive TSA screening to rape, that in my opinion is you being overly dramatic. I have seen first hand what a victim of rape goes through.
I do not like the police state we are living in any more than you do, but you were not raped young lady.