What Happens if You Decline a Full Body Scan?

aol ^ | Nov 15th 2010 | Fran Golden

[george76]

When you ask a friend to join you for a nice weekend cruise from Miami, you don't expect the friend to be hauled away by Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents into a private room where she says she was practically strip-searched. But that's what happened at Logan International Airport in Boston...

I looked over to the adjacent security line and saw to my horror my red-faced friend questioning TSA officers after she was chosen at random for, and refused to go through, a full body scanner.

My pal happens to be a Boston media personality and crime reporter, Michele McPhee. She is not a shy lady. When this tough blond makes up her mind she makes up her mind. There was no way she was going to be convinced to do a body scan if she didn't want to.

So instead, she opted for a pat down and was whisked away, barefoot, by two women - a TSA officer and her supervisor - to a private room, where McPhee says a very intrusive body search was conducted.

"They run their hands inside your leg and under your bra strap and patted the front of my breasts," she says. "If someone had done that to me at a nightclub I'd call the cops."

"People need to know why we need body scanners," she says. "The humiliation of walking across a crowded, dirty terminal in bare feet, escorted by two TSA agents, dragged into a room and essentially assaulted, I really did leave mad."

[stephenjohnbanker]

You don’t get egg roll.

[sodpoodle]

They will cut your body into little pieces and scan them separately.

[Krankor]

The TSA screener will then ask, “If I say you have a beautiful body, will you hold it against me?”

[Truth29]

There is going to be sporadic violence, not by terrorists but by passengers who react when they are grabbed in places no one not in prison should have to endure.

[null and void]

Shep was ripping the TSA chief a new one earlier today.

He kept grinding on him about why don’t we do cavity searches? we already know terrorists have smuggled explosives in their body cavities.

Pistole did a LOT of shuckin’ an’ jivin’ and squirmed visibly.

Way to go Shep!

[paulycy]

What Happens if You Decline a Full Body Scan?

[Doe Eyes]

Shep was ripping the TSA chief a new one earlier today.

So we just give up and allow the terrorists to blow up a few flights. It probably won't amount to that many Americans.

[null and void]

TSA agent: Step into the scanner.

Traveler: I opt out.

TSA agent: OK, we'll have to give you a full pat down, including both thighs up to the groin.

Traveler: sigh if you must. But in the interests of full disclosure, you need to know that due to some unpleasant events in my past, which I neither want to discuss nor even think about, I'm told that the I beat the last guy who touched my crotch into a bloody pulp. Mind you, I have no recollection of actually doing this, and I think I can control it if I can brace myself for the unwanted contact. Still, I want you to know that I have the highest respect for you and admire the difficult job you do, so if I have a full psychotic break and injure you, it's nothing personal, and I have no conscious control over it.
(pause)
Traveler: Your move.

[null and void]

No, we do what El Al does.

[combat_boots]

This is setting up the RFID chip.

Pilots are starting to discuss this.

Can you say "Blu-Ray' pill? Hitachi powder in that injection, sir?

[pallis]

First you save yourself from an excessive dose of radiation. Next you get molested by your friendly federal pervert, who will no doubt be an arrogant, authoritarian creep, worthy of Gestapo membership. If you refuse the above two choices, you will go to jail, and still get molested by your friendly jailer, and possibly some new friends and cellmates. That’s the price of being an American these days.

Do it for your country and the joy of not having to admit that Muslims are the terrorists.

[devere]

Defund TSA,EPA,FDA, & DOE.

Then let’s take stock and look for new defunding targets.

I’ve had enough of the totalitarian federal nanny state.

[originalbuckeye]

I have had two body scans. Both were humiliating but I CANNOT imagine an ‘enhanced pat-down’. Really a sexual molestation. I read a while back that Big Sis said they could go to ‘avatars’ for the body scans. This would show the figure of a crash test dummy with alerts wherever there was metal. I am not sure if it would show other foreign objects on/in one’s body. The avatar scenario would be preferable to standing there knowing some perceived creepy person was looking at you with your clothes off.

[george76]

cnn - pilot files lawsuit over tsa body scanners

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXIGw9QGeTo&feature=player_embedded

[Jack Hydrazine]

Posted on Drudge.

FLASHBACK: PENN JILLETTE CALLS COPS ON GROPING TSA AGENT
11/13/02
http://www.drudgereport.com/flash9p.htm

[Paladin2]

“Under 18 U.S. Code Section 2244, “ ‘sexual contact’ means the intentional touching, either directly or through the clothing, of the genitalia, anus, groin, breast, inner thigh or buttocks of any person with an intent to abuse, humiliate, harass, degrade.”

[Michael Barnes]

He kept grinding on him about why don’t we do cavity searches?

I don't think he was grinding on him because of Constitutional reason's, I think the guy WANTS those kind of searches.

/s

[Reddy]

Why don’t you post a naked photo of yourself on this forum? It’ll do about as much good as going through a full body scanner at an airport.

[School of Rational Thought]

While the TSA has yet to find any explosive fluids, they are commited to rubbing your junk until something does explode!