Posted on 11/12/2010 10:44:28 AM PST by george76
Two months ago, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced that the federal stimulus legislation would pay for the purchase of hundreds of controversial full-body scanners.
"Through the Recovery Act, we are able to continue our accelerated deployment of enhanced technology as part of our layered approach to security at airports nationwide," Napolitano said at the time.
The number of scanners has roughly doubled since Napolitano's announcement and they are now found in 68 U.S. airports, and the Transportation Security Administration says the controversial devices have proven to be a success.
"We have received minimal complaints," a TSA spokeswoman told CNET yesterday. She said that the agency, part of DHS, keeps track of air traveler complaints and has not seen a significant rise.
A growing number of airline passengers, labor unions, and advocacy groups, however, say the new procedures--a choice of full-body scans or what the TSA delicately calls "enhanced pat-downs"--go too far.
Unions representing U.S. Airways pilots, American Airlines pilots, and some flight attendants are advising their members to skip the full-body scans, even if it means that their genitals are touched. Air travelers are speaking out online, with a woman saying in a YouTube video her breasts were "twisted," and ExpressJet pilot Michael Roberts emerging as an instant hero after he rejected both the body scanning and "enhanced pat-downs" options and was unceremoniously ejected from the security line from Memphis International Airport.
One lawsuit has been filed and at least two more are being contemplated. There are snarky suggestions for what TSA actually stands for, attempts at grope-induced erotic fiction, and now even a movie.
These privacy concerns, and in a few cases even outright rebellion, come as an estimated 24 million travelers are expected to fly during the 2010 Thanksgiving holiday season
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What other kind of strip search is there?
They say they have members of the same sex do the “rub down”. But what if that person is gay? Or what if the person receiving the rub down is gay?
Can a gay person request a member of the opposite sex to do the rub down?
Can a “victim” of the rub down request the sexual preference of the person doing the rub down?
Translation: "We're using tax dollars we have not even collected yet to infringe on your individual rights ways unimagined by even the most paranoid of our Founding Fathers".
Translation: "We're using tax dollars we have not even collected yet to infringe on your individual rights in ways unimagined by even the most paranoid of our Founding Fathers".
Is there a list?
Notice that the “Enhanced Pat Down” is only utilized where the Naked Body Scan is rolled out. People naturally object to the Naked Body Scan, so the TSA is starting with the new Grope and Feel standard in order to make the Naked Body Scan the less offensive option.
So we can conclude that the “Enhanced Pat Down” does not serve a legitimate security function, but is just a way to herd people into the Naked Body Scan line. Otherwise, the TSA would be employing the Enhanced Pat Down procedure at all airports, even if the Naked Body Scan is not available there.
This is petty coersion, plain and simple.
The New T&A “You know you like it!” initiative.. just refining the process to the threat at hand uhh..
Just think of Janet Napolincompetento’s smiling face next time you go thru it. She doesn’t fly commercial.. I could be wrong.
What freedoms do we have left? security cams everywhere, physical friskdowns to travel, your ‘wireless being’ exposed for all to grab hold of?
where does it stop? and where is it going? chip implants? they can already track ya for gps thru your cell phone..
“We have received minimal complaints”.....
The complaints are obviously not getting thru to the parties who can do something.
The TSA persons on the floor are going to go postal sooner or later. They re caught inbetween the rock & the hard place.
In this case, we can count on the natural laziness of the TSA employees to ensure that they will lose interest in the Enhanced Pat Down technique, after the novelty of sticking their hands down people’s pants wears off.
In a couple of weeks they’ll be back to waving a magnetometer wand in your general direction while yakking with their co-workers about Fantasy Football...
Female radio host cuffed to chair, ticket ripped up...
I am definitely wearing a cup on my next flight.
Can a gay person request a member of the opposite sex to do the rub down?
Can a victim of the rub down request the sexual preference of the person doing the rub down?
Most importantly, are Business Class travelers guaranteed a "happy ending"?
. . .this is just another level of ‘the nudge’ against the citizenry. . .should/when/if. . .we settle in with this; expect more and worse. . .
We all need to demand of our new Congress to pass a law that states:
“Any and all laws/regulations passed by our ‘law makers’ will apply to every citizen, including the ‘law makers.”
Just think, if they’d upload the images to the internet and charge people to watch, it would probably pay for the TSA and then some. (This is supposed to be humor)
From what I've seen of the TSA at the airports I fly from and to, that's a trip that won't take very long for some of those slack-jowled, drowling, fat-@assed morons.
trick is not to take it with you - or to take the battery out when traveling from point a to b and back again/
“enhanced pat-downs” good for average citizens.
Waterboarding not good for murdering terrorists.
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Continue to push back people!
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