No one looks forward to traveling for the holidays. I'm in that group. But when you're 3,000 miles from your family, it's what you do.
This year, being the first Xmas since my father passed unexpectedly, I felt it was even more important to try and get home for the holidays. I was very excited that my job was giving us the week off between Xmas and New Year's Eve, as I had not one vacation day left after exhausting them around the funeral.
I wouldn't think twice about the crowds, the traffic, the hustle and bustle of holiday travel.
Been there...done that.
Then they started touching people. But only if you choose to not be radiated with low level xrays, first.
I'm not sure WHERE I gave up my rights to not have my naked body end up on youtube. I'm pretty sure when I buy a ticket to fly, I didn't give up my rights. I don't have to show my naked body when I buy a ticket to a concert. I don't have to have someone, in a room somewhere, inspect my fat rolls when I buy a ticket to a movie.
And if I DON'T want radiation and xray porn...I have to have a pat down, which includes, someone putting their hands in my bra, in my pant waistband, and in my crotch.
I'm pretty sure the last time I saw a pat down like that it was a MSNBC show called "Lock Up". Now I know....THEY don't have any rights.
A USAToday/Gallup Poll conducted in January found that 78% of the American public were in favor of these new measures, expressing a strong sentiment that so-called "invasions of privacy" are a small price to pay for greater security aboard passenger airplanes. 84% of the persons polled felt that the machines would prevent terrorists from entering planes with explosives.
WTF?!?!
How many folks have been stopped at the gate so far? None. So I'm going to assume that our need for more than a metal detector...not really needed.
You know where they get stopped? In the plane. By other passengers who rat them out. Not even the TSA agents that are supposedly hidden on the flights have caught anyone.
Hey...84%! Let me tell you WHY you have these scanners. It's not for your SAFETY. Hoooooo noooooo. Please. Do you think the big ol corporations that slap these things together, never testing the level of radiation they are pumping, care about your safety?!?!
Remember Michael Chertoff? He was Mr. Bush's Homeland Security Czar. As of January, his consulting agency, the Chertoff Group, counted among its clients one of the machines' manufacturers.
"There is no evidence these new body scanners make us more secure. But there is evidence that former Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff made money hawking these full body scanners," Rep. Ted Poe (Texas) said from a speech from the House floor.
Anyone heard of the 4th amendment?
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Wake up America! You're letting them take away our rights on the basis of fear from the boogie man!
If I don't see you for the holidays....you can see ALL of me on youtube as "fatladypassengerTSA.wvm"
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