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| Because religion never drove anyone to do some dirt in an airport. |
Apparently we're supposed to be upset about getting our shit checked out at airports this week. The choice, as CBS news explains below, is between getting an XXX-rated picture of your penis and tits taken (and probably saved on some dude's masturbation machine forever) or letting some low rent security dude two steps up from patrolling outside Sbarros in the food court touch you in the bad place.
A growing number of airline passengers, labor unions, and advocacy groups, however, say the new procedures--a choice of full-body scans or what the TSA delicately calls "enhanced patdowns"--go too far...
Unions representing U.S. Airways pilots, American Airlines pilots, and some flight attendants are advising their members to skip the full-body scans, even if it means that their genitals are touched. Air travelers are speaking out online, with a woman in a YouTube video her breasts were "twisted," and ExpressJet pilot Michael Roberts emerging as an instant hero after he rejected both the body scanning and "enhanced patdowns" options and was unceremoniously ejected from the security line from Memphis International Airport.
One lawsuit has been filed and at least two more are being contemplated. There are for what TSA actually stands for, attempts at grope-induced erotic fiction, and now even a movie. via
I don't see the big deal. If we've learned anything from the internet, it's that people don't like having pictures of themselves out there, right? Also, if you are that worried about some dude putting his hands near your balls, you are gay, and not the good kind. I'm sorry, that's just how it works.
TSA has "always done pat-downs," but until recently they haven't been so aggressive, says , legislative counsel at the ACLU in Washington, D.C. "The pat-downs never used to go up a woman's skirt."
"It's become troubling," Calabrese says. "You've got these controversial naked strip search machines that they're rolling out at airports across America. And if you choose not to go through the naked strip search machine, you're subject to this (level of intrusive physical contact). It seems punitive. It seems designed to drive you to the naked strip search machine."And that, my friends, is the story of how the terrorists won. If you'll indulge me a few lines of verse, I believe it was Eliot who said:
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
(Because some dude was squeezing your balls looking for a hidden bomb.)
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