Nothing wrong here because I heard Sean say he flys all the time and it’s no big deal.
“Nobody wants to have their 4th Amendment Rights violated, but we’re going to have to do it.”
Nice.
Whole body scanners have nothing to do with airport security.
First they’re about money.
Second they’re about demoralizing us.
Third they’re about information gathering.
Welcome to white slavery.
TSA bookmark. (see links)
They say it’s not a violation of our rights because flying is a privilege.
So is driving. So is a hundred other things you have to do to live. You don’t have to suspend our rights to take them away. Just turn our world into an array of privileges.
If we want to live in a cave and eat berries, well that’s our right. (but not if we do it on public land. Then it’s a privilege).
Haven’t you heard the story of the model who was patted down for 8 minutes?
Sean I would guess doesn’t have so much to grope for guys. Well, most guys.
The way TSA is “handling” things, I think they should be referred to as T&A, which, as some of you might know, refers to two parts of the female anatomy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z01dJy9lf4w
Here’s Hannity discussing the issue with Michelle Malkin. I’m really surprised and dismayed that both of them are more concerned with (false) security than with privacy and protection from intrusive and unreasonable search.
This issue certainly separates the wheat from the chaff. Hero pilot Sullenberger too has objected to the searches on the grounds of inefficient use of resources. As I mentioned elsewhere, “inefficient” should be for things morally neutral. You use that word, you sound morally neutral.
These humiliating searches are immoral. They constitute sexual assault. Period.
Yet here’s Michelle Malkin saying “It’s not the privacy concerns that bother me so much, Sean, as it is the fundamental issues of trust and competence...The question here domestically comes down to, do you trust the TSA to administer this policy in an effective manner?”
Bulletin. I don’t WANT them to be efficient or effective at violating my rights — or anyone’s, or everyone’s.
I expected better from Malkin. Hannity...disappointing but not so much of a surprise. :(
http://www.zug.com/live?func=view_thread&thread_id=68619
Shakes on a Plane
(excerpt)
“My question was this: are the security checks really any more effective? To find out, I decided to re-enact the classic scene from the 1984 movie This is Spinal Tap, where bassist Derek Smalls puts a foil-lined cucumber down his pants, which is picked up by the security wand. Only I decided to go one better, by putting a buzzing vibrator down my pants.”
“You know I was sweating cheeseburgers as I waited for the guy to return. We stood there awkwardly, while my crotch hummed a one-note tune. It was a muffled drone, like someone using a weed wacker in a neighboring township.”
http://www.zug.com/live/74827/Undressing-at-Airport-Security.html
Salad Dressing In The Pants
“Calmly, I reached down into that unstable barrel of atomic liquid and grabbed my salad dressing. Then I calmly boarded the moving walkway, and stuffed the salad dressing down my pants. The TSA lets you keep things there, apparently.”