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I have a question,
While TSA personnel are groping genitals of all airline passengers who refuse to be photographed naked by backscatter scanners, and while the public assumes that this display of groping assures the safety of airline travel, who is to say that a TSA employee who is doing the groping is legit? Who is to say that a TSA groping employee cannot be compromised? Who are these TSA people and what are their qualifications? Where did they come from?
Most of the public automatically assumes a posture of pacifism when they see someone in a uniform. While the TSA endeavors down this new path of groping genitalia of children, wives and grandmothers, why does this make us feel safe and secure?
What do you think the level of pay, expertise, and training is to become a TSA employee capable of front line groping? How much bribe money do you think it would take to bribe a TSA employee to put on a display of groping someone, while ignoring the object that he (she) is being paid to ignore and let pass through?
All it takes is ONE, so why do we allow this to continue?
Admittedly I do not have the answer, however the recent escalation of invasion of privacy has risen to such a level, that I cannot help but wonder these things. While we give up our rights to privacy and willingly allow TSA personnel to grope our wives and daughters breasts and genital area, why would we think that this is OK and making us safer?
The assumption that everyone is making is that everyone at TSA is on the up and up, and outstanding law abiding citizens who would resist a bribe or threat of harm, and would never allow a fake pat down. During my previous career, I used to travel quite a lot, and I must say that an awful lot of the TSA employees that I saw looked like minimum wage type product. This is not being mean, just a fact of observation. And we trust them with such things.
Why are we the terrorists?
I have been resisting the urge to post on the subject of the recent TSA procedures, but the libertarian tendencies in me just can’t accept this without action. I have not flown since the new TSA procedures were put in place, so do not have personal experience with what is really going on – only what I have been reading about, which is partly why I have waited until now to opine.
This type of action, completely giving up your rights for the sake of “security” is a very bad road to be on. This will lead to nowhere good. There has to be another way. Apparently the majority of the flying public (about 80 percent) are accepting naked backscatter scanner photos of themselves. About 20 percent are refusing and are subjected to breast and genital groping instead.
So, in other words, it seems that 80 percent of the public are OK with this? That is disturbing, if my assumption is true (assumption being that the 20 percent that are subjected to groping, are doing so in protest of backscatter scanners).
I would be curious to hear opinions on this subject, and feel free to comment.
I’ve heard that there is a movement afoot to protest during the upcoming Thanksgiving Holiday travel period, by refusing the naked backscatter scanner, or not flying at all.
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I have a question,
While TSA personnel are groping genitals of all airline passengers who refuse to be photographed naked by backscatter scanners, and while the public assumes that this display of groping assures the safety of airline travel, who is to say that a TSA employee who is doing the groping is legit? Who is to say that a TSA groping employee cannot be compromised? Who are these TSA people and what are their qualifications? Where did they come from?
Most of the public automatically assumes a posture of pacifism when they see someone in a uniform. While the TSA endeavors down this new path of groping genitalia of children, wives and grandmothers, why does this make us feel safe and secure?
What do you think the level of pay, expertise, and training is to become a TSA employee capable of front line groping? How much bribe money do you think it would take to bribe a TSA employee to put on a display of groping someone, while ignoring the object that he (she) is being paid to ignore and let pass through?
All it takes is ONE, so why do we allow this to continue?
Admittedly I do not have the answer, however the recent escalation of invasion of privacy has risen to such a level, that I cannot help but wonder these things. While we give up our rights to privacy and willingly allow TSA personnel to grope our wives and daughters breasts and genital area, why would we think that this is OK and making us safer?
The assumption that everyone is making is that everyone at TSA is on the up and up, and outstanding law abiding citizens who would resist a bribe or threat of harm, and would never allow a fake pat down. During my previous career, I used to travel quite a lot, and I must say that an awful lot of the TSA employees that I saw looked like minimum wage type product. This is not being mean, just a fact of observation. And we trust them with such things.
Why are we the terrorists?
I have been resisting the urge to post on the subject of the recent TSA procedures, but the libertarian tendencies in me just can’t accept this without action. I have not flown since the new TSA procedures were put in place, so do not have personal experience with what is really going on – only what I have been reading about, which is partly why I have waited until now to opine.
This type of action, completely giving up your rights for the sake of “security” is a very bad road to be on. This will lead to nowhere good. There has to be another way. Apparently the majority of the flying public (about 80 percent) are accepting naked backscatter scanner photos of themselves. About 20 percent are refusing and are subjected to breast and genital groping instead.
So, in other words, it seems that 80 percent of the public are OK with this? That is disturbing, if my assumption is true (assumption being that the 20 percent that are subjected to groping, are doing so in protest of backscatter scanners).
I would be curious to hear opinions on this subject, and feel free to comment.
I’ve heard that there is a movement afoot to protest during the upcoming Thanksgiving Holiday travel period, by refusing the naked backscatter scanner, or not flying at all.
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Posted on Sun, 21 Nov 2010 00:06:56 +0000 at http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ModernSurvivalBlog/~3/y2mIRt4_yPw/
Comments: http://modernsurvivalblog.com/current-events-economics-politics/tsa-groping-compromised/#comments