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| Oops: Radio talk show hostess opts out of body scan so TSA molests & threatens her. You're next. |
| 2010-11-11 |
Until I saw this I was going to take the kids to Disneyland. Think I am going to risk them getting singled out for full body scan? Think I want them to witness someone else getting one of their new, improved, punitive pat-downs (in full view of all other passengers who go skating by) that are designed to intimidate onlookers into complying rather than deal with what they end up putting you through? Think I want them to be subject to some perv patting them down? Think I want them to watch me or my wife having to submit to this? It was my understanding that this was to be an alternate route for people to take who didn't mind getting ogled to go through that was quicker than dealing with the metal detector/pat down thingy. What if someone opts out because they don't want to get ogled and they just went through some kind of surgery recently and can't be manhandled? AFAIAC, the whole industry can now go fuc& themselves until this whole thing is reworked. Sometimes I need to fly, oh well. But they can forget any elective travel on my part. Everything from the travel agencies to the economies at the destination of my would-have been travel can forget my money. As can everything in between. Nazis. |
| Posted by:gorb |
| #11 xkcd beat u to it oldspook http://xkcd.com/779/ |
| Posted by: HEU 2010-11-11 22:15 |
| #10 My solution? Hand out Viagra to all males in line. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2010-11-11 21:58 |
| #9 Doesn't matter to me. Pelosi/Obamacare knocked my health insurance up 30%, which was my disposable income. Government people, and those who run or own businesses, I want you to read that again. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2010-11-11 17:55 |
| #8 Only a bureaucrat would think it was appropriate to allow any kind of Yemeni on an aircraft in the first place. I stopped flying in 1994 altogether after a particularly provoking flight experience. If I can't get there by driving or sailing, I'm not going. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-11-11 16:02 |
| #7 As much as I always loved flying in the past, I'm glad I've been able to drive everyplace I needed to go in the last 9 years. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2010-11-11 16:00 |
| #6 I fly a good bit, and the TSA folks are generally pretty decent. Last week, though, they all had their frownie faces on because, I suspect, they had been told to expect trouble over the new scanners. The problem is (a) only a bureaucrat could think it was rational idea to give the same amount of security attention to a five-year old girl from Nebraska as to a 20-year old Yemeni named Mahmoud and (b) it's fascist and demeaning in the best of circumstances. |
| Posted by: Matt 2010-11-11 11:22 |
| #5 I fly every week across America. On one occasion I forgot to remove my knife. The TSA allowed me to throw it in the amnesty box and away I went. Most people I see that have problems with the TSA arrive with an attitude. They try to sneak stuff through or when pulled for screening they get ugly with the TSA. They try to argue with the agents over the policies. I have been through the getting pulled aside and searched a couple of times. They try to keep the searches timed so to not slow the flow of passengers and not make the random selectees have to wait. Each time they have explained very carefully what was happening. I have watched them screen women and they offer to move them to a private area for the search. And not they never grabbed and twisted some woman's breasts. Once this girl realized she was being screened developed an attitude. I've seen it before. She's lucky she did not go to jail. |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2010-11-11 10:32 |
| #4 I don't need to fly. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2010-11-11 09:32 |
| #3 Another reason not to fly again. I use my travel trailer to get from here to there. So, when they build that six lane interstate between home and anywhere else, I'm stuck in North America. |
| Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 2010-11-11 09:23 |
| #2 That's what she get for not going to Burquas R US Rental first cuzz you know that a Muslim would never be treated that way, right CAIR? |
| Posted by: Jack Salami: 2010-11-11 09:18 |
| #1 Far easier to drive. |
| Posted by: eLarson 2010-11-11 07:26 |