Joe linked this video, go over there to see the picture he has up, its great. But this story really makes me sad.
We could discuss where the line goes with what is a violation and what is good safety if the TSA DID anything useful, but instead we’re paying this grave price for a gain of NOTHING, as their only “success” is catching terrorists AFTER their plans fail.
The next time I fly I’m opting out of the scan. I want to see it with my own eyes, and also if the TSA is going to violate me, I want them to get their damn hands dirty and have me glaring at them while they do it.
Disband the TSA today!
Since TSA is obviously into getting their jollies off the new scanning, I think the way to make their day is to wear a “prosthesis” that would make Long Dong Silver jealous. I wonder who would get more flustered – the guys who were jealous or the women at the thought.
The prosthesis would probably get you arrested, but giving yourself an erection probably wouldn’t. 🙂 Along that line of thought, I wonder if Ben-Wa balls are specifically banned from in-flight/pre-flight usage? They wouldn’t be obvious to a clothed pat down, as I recall.
I begin to wonder if one can learn to break wind “on command” as it were? If declining to increase your level of night-time glow leads to a physical man-handleing, then such a talent begins to seem more attractive (if that’s not too weerd a word choice). Can you just see the judge’s face in your minds eye if you were prosecuted for felony farting? 🙂
I’m thinking of using all my imagination at hand to cook up a serious semi-wood for them to grope.
No matter how awkward that makes me feel it’ll make those bastards feel worse!
heck, i’m considering buying a “packy” for the same reason. i am female. let THAT confuse’em.
…though i only see three situations where i’ll be flying anytime in the next decade, so i suppose it’s a moot point.
what’s a “packy”…and please link where I can buy one, because no matter what it is, I want one!
NSFW. http://www.stockroom.com/Packer-P4290.aspx
Ok, that’s AWESOME!!!
HOG!!
Heh. Think “Spinal Tap.”
Spontaneously combust?
http://www.flyingpasties.com/
No idea how well, or if, they work, but they are out there.
More to the point, this is not going to end until we, the people, make it forcibly end – no amount of public outcry is going to deter these assholes from their authoritarian power trip, and no average American citizen wants to be the first gerbil on the chopping block (hell, I do not want to).
If a significant portion of the country stopped flying, I could see that possibly working… but it is never going to happen.
I suspect they work well enugh for you to get stripped searched. Which could be a good or bad end-result depending on what you’re trying to do.
Joe’s been pimping them because I suspect when he retires he’s fixin to cause some mayhem with the TSA.
I have to fly back home for this Winter Break, and if I have to deal with that crap…I’ll turn on the waterworks. Loudly. While making my eyes look as huge and moe as possible. If that alone doesn’t make the TSA uncomfortable, trying to keep back the people whose maternal/protective instincts I just invoked should. 😉
Don’t take any guff frome these swine!
TSA videos:
http://wewontfly.com/tsa-videos-meg-mclain
Apparently the above “vindicates” something or someone. I see a person who committed no crime against another person, so that’s all the vindication I need.
So long as we continue to believe that there’s a different Fourth Amendment protection for every possible circumstance, then there’s technically no Fourth Amendment protection.