If this is real....

[mrattis]

If this is real, we truly don't have Freedoms anymore.

http://johnnyedge.blogspot.com/2010/11/these-events-took-place-roughly-between.html

Comments

[cinnamonbite]

There are stories like this popping up all over. My 2 main concerns are:
1) if you wear a burka--full muslim gear, you know, the assholes who started all this--you are not groped or put thru the cancer/porn machine.

2) a poll on CNN yesterday showed overwhelmingly that most of the readers would not opt out for either the grope nor the cancer/porn machine.

And on top of all of that, NEITHER do even one thing to keep anyone safe!

[sibn]

i think i may have hit on a winning solution: hide your tsa contraband on your children. then explain to me why the tsa needs to either see my 9 year old daughter naked, or grope her up to the gonads. make both things the crimes that they obviously are, by getting the tsa to treat children this way, too.

disclaimer here, i am not advocating that the tsa should do either of these things to children, but would not most of the country suddenly care if their kids were getting this treatment?

and try not to forget that seemingly innocuous items such as neckties, pocket knives with blades shorter than N inches, and ball-point pens are weapons, if you choose to use them that way. when do we get to fly naked on a chaingang? i think that would qualify the as the second time people were moved around in this country like that.

just a couple of thoughts.

[mrattis]

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/11/11/tsas-new-book-for-ki.html

More jokes and internet outrage.

As for searching kids...

While the guidelines say that kids are not part of it, unless they are suspected of something, there are reports of kids being sexually assaulted by the TSA. Also reports of kids in strollers being put into the x-ray machines.

[sibn]

that is odd. the only outrage i have heard from people about these practices are the ones who are total privacy nuts (which i do not mean as an insult at all -- they provide a valuable service to the public at large by caring enough to say something).

i would have thought by now they would have been all over that, and while i do not watch mainstream news, this is the second recent story i have seen where somebody refused the porn machine. i suppose i would just expect that if there were cases of children being molested or seen naked, that i would have heard about it through my usual news channels (slashdot, boingboing, etc) by now. you could well be right. does not sound like the sort of story msnbc or fox would ever pick up and run, for example. but boingboing? they would be all over that, i would think.

although i did recently spend about a month with no net connection, so i have a black hole from about september 9 to october 9...

[cinnamonbite]

Frickin' GERMANY is standing up for our rights while Americans are utterly disgusting sheep!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jrgUhOrHFU&feature=player_embedded

[cinnamonbite]

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/travel-safety-security-222/

I wonder how many rapists and pedophiles now have new TSA jobs?