This TSA Douchebag

[EL PRESIDENTE]

I guess the story of the moment is how all of our privacy is being violated by TSA patdowns. Some douchebag from San Diego went all political about it at the airport and its a top story.

The thing is, if you just kind of go with the flow you won't have problems. the only ones who have problems are douchebags like this who make snide comments and try to start shit.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TRAVEL/11/15/california.airport.security/index.html?hpt=T1

He's just like the "don't taze me bro" douchebag from 2 years ago.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

the only people afraid of the body scan machines have small penises.

 

[Eastoff]

the only people afraid of the body scan machines have small penises.

and people who don't want cancer.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

I've gone through the air shooting one before. that was trippy. I remember when they had that swine flu shit in mexico, I had to go through some kind of walk through x-ray shit that measured your body temperature and you could see the outlines.....pretty crazy

 

[Colonel Ronan]

I'm gonna try and get a semi while I walk through.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

that would be awesome.

 

[BGrantFan]

I thought it was odd, but the past year I've been regularly asked by TSA why I am carrying a zucchini in my pants. Guess I know why now.

Creepy stuff.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

I got the crotch pat-down a few months ago at LAX. It was kind of creepy.

 

[Colonel Ronan]

How lulz would it be to have a boner when walking through the xray?

 

[BGrantFan]

How lulz would it be to have a boner when walking through the xray?

Then just stand there for a while and pose and preen with a big ass smile on your face and your hands on your hips.

"Excuse me sir, please move along..."

 

[BGrantFan]

Back to the topic of thread, you just know the douchebag who didn't get on the plane will also blame Obama if a terrorist gets through TSA and blows up a plane.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

no, he'd probably blame bush.

 

[Natebishop3]

TSA is a fucking joke. Last time I was at the airport waiting for my fiance, I saw at least six or seven of the guys standing around shooting the shit while a long line was trying to make its way through the checkpoint. Fucking government jobs.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

they seem to be always training someone how to read the X-rays.

 

[Natebishop3]

they seem to be always training someone how to read the X-rays.

More like training someone how to take a coffee break.

 

[BrianFromWA]

and people who don't want cancer.

Then they shouldn't be flying.

 

[MARIS61]

The thing is, if you just kind of go with the flow you won't have problems. the only ones who have problems are douchebags like this who make snide comments and try to start shit.

Wait, are we talking about rape victims back in the 50's-60's?

 

[julius]

Wait, are we talking about rape victims back in the 50's-60's?

and 70's, and 80's and 90's and 00's...

As for me, I'm not wild about having an x-ray machine check me out but I'd rather have that then someone copping a feel. It's pretty pathetic that we have to do this though, considering how poor the technology is to detect shit.

 

[MARIS61]

The same-gender pat down seems open to legal action for several angles of illegal discrimination based on sex, and IMO is nothing more than government sanctioned sexual abuse. The nude screening of flyers should be prosecuted under the many applicable existing invasion of privacy and child pornography laws.

The constant lying by the TSA and Homeland Security does nothing to bolster their case, as it has already been demonstrated they lied about the quality of images screeners see (NOT shadowy forms, but actually much closer to the high detail of a Penthouse Pet Centerfold).

Pedophiles and perverts are scrambling to apply for jobs as screeners and will soon be the dominant workers in the field.

Will you let them screen your 5 year old daughter? Or would you rather they fondle her crotch?

 

[MARIS61]

Pilots don't like it either:

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TRAVEL/10/20/pilot.refuses.body.scan/?iref=obinsite

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TRAVEL/11/11/pilots.body.scanning/index.html?iref=obinsite

"If you think of the entire population of, shall we say a billion people per year going through these scanners, it's very likely that some number of those will develop cancer from the radiation from these scanners," Brenner said.

Skin cancer would likely be the primary concern, he said. Each time the same person receives a backscatter scan, the small risk associated with the low dose of radiation is multiplied by the number of exposures.

Brenner said the risk to an individual is "very small indeed" for a single scan. He said he is most concerned about frequent fliers, pilots and young people, because children are more sensitive to radiation.

In April, four science and medical faculty members at the University of California, San Francisco, sent a letter to the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy expressing concerns about potentially serious health risks related to the X-ray scanners.

In the letter they claimed there could be risks to various population segments, including children, senior citizens and women susceptible to breast cancer. The group also called for a clear screening policy for pregnant women once possible risks to the fetus are known. The group wants a review of existing data and recommendations for additional study by an independent panel of scientific experts.

But there's really no case to be made for deploying any kind of body-scanning machine, Rez said.

The probability of dying from radiation from a body scanner and that of being killed in a terror attack are roughly the same, he said. About one in 30 million.

"They're both incredibly unlikely events. These are still a factor of 10 lower than the probability of dying in any one year from being struck by lightning in the United States."

 

[MickZagger]

TSA is a fucking joke. Last time I was at the airport waiting for my fiance, I saw at least six or seven of the guys standing around shooting the shit while a long line was trying to make its way through the checkpoint. Fucking government jobs.

Your tying the knot?

 

[MARIS61]

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TRAVEL/11/12/travel.screening/index.html?iref=obinsite

"We have received hundreds of e-mails and phone calls from travelers vowing to stop flying," Geoff Freeman, an executive vice president of the U.S. Travel Association, told Reuters.

A 2008 survey found that air travelers "avoided" 41 million trips because they believed the air travel system was either "broken" or in need of "moderate correction," the U.S. Travel Association said. The decisions cost airlines $9.4 billion, the survey said.

One online group, "National Opt Out Day" calls for a day of protest against the scanners on Wednesday, November 24, the busiest travel day of the year.

Another group argues the TSA should remove the scanners from all airports. The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), a non-profit privacy advocacy group, is taking legal action, saying the TSA should be required to conduct a public rule-making to evaluate the privacy, security and health risks caused by the body scanners.

The website "We Won't Fly" urgers travelers to "Act now. Travel with Dignity."

"We are opposed to the full-body backscatter X-ray airport scanners on grounds of health and privacy. We do not consent to strip searches, virtual or otherwise. We do not wish to be guinea pigs for new, and possibly dangerous, technology. We are not criminals. We are your customers. We will not beg the government anymore. We will simply stop flying until the porno-scanners are history," the site says.

"National Opt Out Day," organized by Brian Sodegren, encourages solidarity on November 24, amid the crush of Thanksgiving travelers.

"It's the day ordinary citizens stand up for their rights, stand up for liberty, and protest the federal government's desire to virtually strip us naked or submit to an "enhanced pat-down" that touches people's breasts and genitals. You should never have to explain to your children, 'Remember that no stranger can touch or see your private area, unless it's a government employee, then it's OK.' "

 

[VanillaGorilla]

What the hell? I've never even seen a TSA "agent" give anyone more than a once over.

 

[Natebishop3]

Your tying the knot?

Yeah. Got engaged back in April. Probably not for another year or so though. I'm broke as a joke.

 

[MickZagger]

Yeah. Got engaged back in April. Probably not for another year or so though. I'm broke as a joke.

I thought Denny was paying you 6 figures.

 

[LameR]

How lulz would it be to have a boner when walking through the xray?

Or the pat-down.

 

[Colonel Ronan]

Then just stand there for a while and pose and preen with a big ass smile on your face and your hands on your hips.

"Excuse me sir, please move along..."

Haha, give them a side view.

 

[Colonel Ronan]

I bet that machine gives off radiation. I have yet to father a family, I want kids god damn it.

 

[julius]

I bet that machine gives off radiation. I have yet to father a family, I want kids god damn it.

Do the rest of us a solid, and stick your crotch in a microwave.