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After days of hype, National Opt-Out Day fizzled. It’s a classic collective action problem.
Gate Rape: Sexual groping of one’s genitalia at airport security by agents after a traveler refuses full body x-ray search.
Looking to avoid airport body scanners? You might not be able to do it on any form of public transit if Janet Napolitano gets her way.
Top administration and congressional officials can skip the indignities of airport screening, even when they fly commercial.
The People In Charge telling us that something is Necessary For Our Own Good makes a large number of people accepting of the inconvenience, no matter how asinine or unsupported by evidence.
Despite the recent media outrage over TSA search procedures, public attitudes on the subject remain largely supportive.
It’s not hypocritical or racist to support an aggressive pursuit of terrorists while getting outraged over abuses of Americans’ liberties.
President Obama’s response to the outrage that has accompanied new TSA screening procedures at America’s airports is incredibly non-responsive.
A retired special education teacher was left humiliated, crying and covered with his own urine after an enhanced pat-down by TSA officers.
“It is not comfortable to come to work knowing full well that my hands will be feeling another man’s private parts, their butt, their inner thigh. Even worse is having to try and feel inside the flab rolls of obese passengers and we seem to get a lot of obese passengers!”
Ron Paul has introduced a law (the “American Traveler Dignity Act”) that would punish TSA agents for groping and x-raying Americans.
Cathy Bossi, a U.S. Airways stewardess and cancer survivor, was forced to show her breast implants to TSA agents when her prosthetic implants triggered alarm during a pat-down.
Is the TSA groping passengers to force them into using intrusive scanners for which they’ve committed $173 million?
Are the American people finally waking up to the absurdity of TSA security theater? One can only hope they are.
The Denver Post’s Craig Walker has captured this image of a TSA agent performing an “enhanced pat down.”
TSA boss John Pistole has offered to give Senators a pat-down search so that they understand the controversial new procedures.
A Florida courthouse illegally saved 35,000 images from security scanners.
So will there be an efficacious backlash against TSA policies? I am guessing no.
Airport security is less intrusive in Communist China and war torn Afghanistan than in the USA. Have we finally had enough?
It appears that full body scanners, operated by leering yahoos under the cover of government authority, may finally be rousing the sheep who have meekly submitted to the absurd delays and indignities that have been piled on since 9/11 and sundry botched attempts.
We’re probably just one big scare away from mandatory full-body scans.
American cops increasingly think they can harass innocents in the name of keeping us safe.