Wow. I mean really WOW! I spent the better part of my morning trying to look up information on these new full body scanners that are being placed in airports across the country, but what I found was even more shocking. The idea of someone looking at my virtual nude body other than my husband was bad enough. But the other incidents I found across the country are just as atrocious. Something needs to be done about the TSA and soon.
I admit I don't have a good self body image. I am overweight and self-conscience about it. I am also a full figured woman, a little top heavy wink wink, if you get the drift. So the idea of some stranger viewing me practically nude (granted it's a day glow blue version of me) makes me shudder. Now TSA officials claim that these receivers have the save and transmit functions “disabled.” So if I was an intelligent enough pervert working for TSA (and perverts work everywhere so I'm not singling TSA out for that), I could re-enable those functions and save the image of that sexy little girl that got “randomly selected” for this machine. And don't even begin to start with the “they are viewing from a remote location” BS. Those agents are in radio contact with one another. It would be fairly simple to give an unobtrusive signal to the remote viewer to keep this image and not that one. Not to mention, that the agent on the floor with you is more than capable of using their own cell to snap that before pic to go with the remote agent's after one. I don't need to explain where all digital photos end up......
And the alternative is no better. I can “choose” to have the enhanced pat down experience instead. After being publicly announced as an “Opt out” or a “Refusal,” I will be taken to a roped off area or plexiglass room in full view of all of the passengers still going through the checkpoint. (Don't refuse or this will happen to you too!) Did I mention that I'm a bit on the top heavy side? So for me that means someone (a woman if I'm lucky & TSA decides to follow their SOP that day) will have to actually lift each breast to check under it for.....? Explosives? Guns? Or just how uncomfortable they can make me feel? Oh and let's not forget the lower half (don't wear skirts of any kind!). Joy of joys, this person will now run their hand, palm side against me, up my leg to where the leg meets the pelvis and down the other side. S/he will then do the same from the back and run his/her hand along my buttocks and back between my legs to the front. Hmmmm did you get just where those hands will be?
As some people have pointed out, these searches are a violation of my constitutional right to not be unreasonably searched or seized. But apparently the TSA is above the US Constitution. There are links throughout youtube to videos secretly taken of the TSA's abuses of power. I've included a few of the links here to get you started.
TSA pulls pants off 71 y/o man with knee implant
NWO TSA agent Screener Accosts 3 Year Old Child at Security Checkpoint.
Woman Claims New TSA Protocol Is Legalized Groping
ACLU Sues Over Airport Detention And Interrogation Of College Student Carrying Arabic Flashcards
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