T.S.A. officials declined to discuss their checkpoint screening procedures, but sent an e-mail statement: “T.S.A. is a counterterrorism agency whose mission is to ensure the safety of the traveling public. To that end, T.S.A. deploys the latest technologies and implements comprehensive procedures that protect passengers while facilitating travel.”
In other words, “We have terrorism in our name so we can do any d#@* thing we want with you and your body.” We subjects should be grateful to the benevolent, blue-shirted despots that rule and protect us. What is freedom without safety?
(Brad)
Frank@OBOW
Beltwayspeak: “Backscatter Back-story”
White House Office of Science & Technology Policy says not to worry about the scanner safety, they’re doubleplus unbad. Heck, I’ll bet they might even prove to be beneficial….for the oncology industry anyway.
Frank@OBOW
Frank@OBOW
Frank@OBOW
Flight attendants push back:
According to a union email obtained by ABC15, it tells flight attendants if they opt out of using the body scanner through security and are required to undergo a pat-down to ask the pat-down be conducted in a private area with a witness.
“We don’t want them in uniform going through this enhanced screening where their private areas are being touched in public,” said Volpe. “They actually make contact with the genital area.”
Some passengers have told ABC15 they’ve already encountered flight delays due to crew members having problems with TSA employees. - ABC15
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The new searches are done with screeners’ hands sliding over a passenger’s body. However, the searches require screeners to touch passengers’ breasts and genitals. And that’s prompting some fliers and the American Civil Liberties Union to question the policy’s intrusiveness and effectiveness. - USA Today
My 69-year-old mother, a very infrequent flier, was traveling yesterday. As much as it pained me to do so I told her to make sure her pockets were empty and go through the scanner rather than suffer this indignity.