Public Protests as TSA Torpedoes Constitution
15th November 2010
Door #1: Have nude pictures of yourself beamed to some video monitor to be viewed by a total stranger where it may or may not be stored; or,
Door #2: Allow yourself to be groped, poked, patted down, felt up, frisked, and squeezed at the hands of some police academy reject in a Smurf-blue uniform; or…
Door #3: Don’t travel.
I picked Door #3 ten years ago and never regretted it.
It’s nice to see some public pushback on this, but it won’t last. The TSA will, under political pressure, back off just enough for the noise to go down to an acceptable level, and will then keep on doin’ what they’re doin’.
An intelligent government would look at how El Al Airlines does their security screening: They don’t have to put up with this shit, and they don’t have bomb scares, either. But ‘intelligent’ and ‘government’ don’t go together in North America, and that’s the sad truth.
November 16th, 2010 at 11:56
We won’t do it because El Al uses the evil profiling (mock shudder) to determine/evaluate threats. That conflicts with the PC dogma that any arbitrary person is as likely as anyone else to be a terrorist, and we can’t allow political incorrectness to be shown to be actually correct.
I’d pick door #3 myself, but my girlfriend loves to travel, and is willing to accept door #1, so I travel with her for the sake of the relationship. So far, I haven’t really had to make the choice – metal detectors and wanding are all I’ve had to deal with.