I kinda feel like the two sides are arguing themselves into illogical extremes on this one. Wearing a kilt isn't For Great Justice, and it also isn't sexual assault. The kilters are right to be angry about the whole thing and trying to make it as unpleasant for the authority figure as possible is pretty appealing. That said, the fact that it's punishing the agents, who don't get to make policy or really even route around the damage it causes, and *not* punishing the people who decided to do things this way in the first place makes it way less useful than the kilters want to think. (that's also why I think Ron Paul's bill, while being the right string, is still the wrong yo-yo)
The problem is not "the kilters." Fact is I have no issue with them (and there aren't many, kilts aren't great airplane gear) it's the people planning to appropriate a bit of clothing *for the express purpose* of making the TSA touch their bare nuts. And that is where it crosses over the line to assault. If it's your normal gear, that's fine, but for most of these people talking about it, it's not.
I was delivering a FedEx package to someone at work the other day. On her computer screen was an article about this very issue with the title "Don't touch my Junk" which I read aloud. She had not read the headline first and didn't realize that I was reading it. She got quite a laugh out of it after turning several shades of red and then realizing that I was reading the title, and not being inappropriate.
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This could be a new Beatles song...
I want to touch your ju-u-unk
I want to touch your junk
Oh please say to me
You'll let me be your man
And please, say to me
I want to touch your junk
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