Wiccan rape victim gets sexually assaulted by TSA

[LMNO]

"COMPLY."

[Suu]

Might be the kind of stunt to finally bring this airport security business to a head.

[Eater of Clowns]

 

Really, a very effective campaign could be done with a half dozen people or so, and this is just the kind of issue that would get backing from major civil liberties organizations for court funding.

[Richter]

Set up a group to arrive in the same line, and calmy, in unision begin to disrobe and wait their turn as if nothing is happening.

[AFK]

Falun Dong

[Richter]

Get a visibly pagan, flabby person to introduce the terror of the "Three fold law"

[Eater of Clowns]

Set up a group to arrive in the same line, and calmy, in unision begin to disrobe and wait their turn as if nothing is happening.

Pretty much what I was thinking.  Have someone there for photos.  Maybe try and get more than one major airport.  Maybe tip off the local news.

Hey, didn't Dimo say he was alright with some jail time recently?  

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Okay...paganism aside...

http://pncminnesota.wordpress.com/2010/11/08/rape-survivor-devasted-by-tsa-enhanced-pat-down/

Coming back from Chicago, Celeste, like increasing numbers of travelers, was forced to make a difficult choice – either allow strangers to see her naked or allow strangers to touch and squeeze her breasts and groin in full view of other travels and TSA agents.  "This was a nightmare come to life," Celeste says, "I said I didn't want them to see me naked and the agent started yelling Opt out- we have an opt here.  Another agent took me aside and said they would have to pat me down.  He told me he was going to touch my genitals and asked if I wouldn't rather just go through the scanner, that it would be less humiliating for me.  I was in shock.  I couldn't believe this was happening.  I kept saying I don't want any of this to happen.  I was whispering please don't do this, please, please."

I did check for alternative sources on the "enhanced pat down", and there's plenty, including the TSA blog which basically says "If you don't want to be seen, get a room".

http://blog.tsa.gov/2010/08/enhanced-pat-downs.html

So either I get seen naked in the full-body scanner, or I get my boobs groped when I fly. Should be a festival holiday season, indeed. But we do this for America™ and our Freedom™, right?

This is the America that the American people first screamed for, then tolerated.

And it's going to get worse, out of sheer inertia.

So we've basically reduced the message of the founders to "I'm going to have to touch your genitals".

[Choptop]

Every message worth saying can be condensed down to "I'm going to have to touch your genitals".

[emerod]

Resistance is futile:

At BWI, I told the officer who directed me to the back-scatter that I preferred a pat-down. I did this in order to see how effective the manual search would be. When I made this request, a number of TSA officers, to my surprise, began laughing. I asked why. One of them -- the one who would eventually conduct my pat-down -- said that the rules were changing shortly, and that I would soon understand why the back-scatter was preferable to the manual search. I asked him if the new guidelines included a cavity search. "No way. You think Congress would allow that?"

I answered, "If you're a terrorist, you're going to hide your weapons in your anus or your vagina." He blushed when I said "vagina."

"Yes, but starting tomorrow, we're going to start searching your crotchal area" -- this is the word he used, "crotchal" -- and you're not going to like it."

"What am I not going to like?" I asked.

"We have to search up your thighs and between your legs until we meet resistance," he explained.

"Resistance?" I asked.

"Your testicles," he explained.

'That's funny," I said, "because 'The Resistance' is the actual name I've given to my testicles."

He answered, "Like 'The Situation,' that guy from 'Jersey Shore?'"

Yes, exactly, I said. (I used to call my testicles "The Insurgency," but those assholes in Iraq ruined the term.)

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2010/10/for-the-first-time-the-tsa-meets-resistance/65390/

[Cramulus]

visibly pagan

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I'm actually just hoping this, combined with more expensive airfare, leads to decreased interest in flying and airline bankruptcies.

[East Coast Hustle]

Since I fly quite often, I imagine this will affect me probably more than anyone else here.

I've decided to buy a very large "cheater" and demand the pat-down search. If they're gonna fondle my junk, they're at least going to come away impressed.

[Choptop]

Feds admit to saving (at the least) thousands of images from body scanners

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Since I fly quite often, I imagine this will affect me probably more than anyone else here.

I've decided to buy a very large "cheater" and demand the pat-down search. If they're gonna fondle my junk, they're at least going to come away impressed.

USE THE BLACK RUSSIAN!  IT SCARES THE SHIT OUT OF THE CLERGY TSA!