That's the basic idea behind a clever twist to the "National Opt-Out Day" campaign, which seeks to backlog the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) with as many forced frisks as possible on Nov. 24.
Wear a Kilt (http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/11/blog-wear-kilt-underpants-protest-tsa-screenings/)
Orginal blog (http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2010/11/tsa-opt-out-day-now-with-a-superfantastic-new-twist/66545/)
TSA Opt-Out Day, Now with a Superfantastic New Twist!
I like it!!!
I love his closing..."So put on a kilt, and strike a blow against stupidity"!
Curious, they insist on using same-sex "fondelers", what if you're gay? Do they find a mollester of the opposite sex?
As one who flies frequently I have serious reservations about this new procedure. Pose for a personal porno or allow "Larry" to grope you...What have we become?
Pretty clever idea! :D
"Sir, this is your 5th time through security today"!
;D
LOL Noble! :D
Wondering if I should take a Sharpie to my Brobdingnagian Bards bumper sticker on the dog limo and make it read:
Real Men Wear Kilts...On Airplanes...
I would love to see there reaction on there face. :o "That is right, I am regimental and you just touched the lads."
Sooo... If you just lift the front of your kilt when they ask to do thier "search" is that considered flashing? ::) LOL better yet just "BRAVEHEART" em. ;D
There is a sad side to this whole thing. The invasive vagi** and labi* inspection is very traumatic to survivors of rape and molestation.
What bothers me most is the fact that they have to do those searchs. That people have, and do try to hide things in places they shouldn't.
It is that 1 person in 1000 that require the other 999 to be searched like this. :(
I so heartily agree Dona. What a flashback. It will bring up emotions and will be traumatic for that person.
I would not like to be a parent of young children and have them touched in this manner. We tell children it is wrong to have someone touch them, but yet, the government can get away with it.
Sure there needs to be safety standards, but what a twisted way to inspect a person. Have the security personnel been screened for deviants? I know I am stretching, but that has been on my mind, too.
I must be living under a really big rock. Are they really getting that invasive with the pat downs?!
From what I understand Tink, they will use the front of the hand not the back of the hand. They will actually use fingers on the breasts and crotch areas.
Very invasive....... >:(
Basically if you did this to someone, you'd be arrested for sexual assault. We didn't get that intimate with prisoners in Iraq.
The TSA has always been a farce. These high tech machines of thiers will only see metal. Last I checked plastic explosive was just that - PLASTIC.
1 gram is all that is needed to being down an airliner. If I have that stashed in my nether regions, a pat down through the searchers rubber gloves, my pants and drawers will not find it no matter how hard you press.
The way to fix this is to copy the Israelies. In over 30 years not one airplane has been hijacked, etc that took of from Ben Gurion airport in Jerusalem.
The Israelis are developing an airport security device that eliminates the privacy concerns that come with full-body scanners at the airports.
It's a booth you can step into that will not X-ray you, but will detonate any explosive device you may have on you. They see this as a win-win for everyone, with none of the whining about racial profiling. It also would eliminate the costs of long and expensive trials. Justice would be swift. Case closed!
You're in the airport terminal and you hear a muffled explosion. Shortly thereafter an announcement comes over the PA system: "Attention standby passengers — we now have a seat available on flight number ____. Shalom."
this sounds so much better !!!!! than those scanners
Quote from: Sir Ironhead on November 18, 2010, 11:39:52 PM
...In over 30 years not one airplane has been hijacked, etc that took of from Ben Gurion airport in Jerusalem.
They profile... :o
I hear we also do not treat the Afgans in this manner as it would stir anti-American feeling. Apparently Americans have no such need for the same respect.
OK, this is actually something I would consider. I was thinking about just stripping naked next time I approached the security checkpoint, but I don't want to get arrested and I'm not quite that brave. (But I would applaud OTHER people if they did it.)
I am SO tired of airport passenger screening -- not because I don't want flights to be secure, but because, beyond the basic screening, everything the TSA has implemented is reactionary, rather than active.
I also think it would be nice if, instead of seeing passengers as the problem, the TSA viewed us as their fellow Americans.
Of course, it would also be nice if our political system worked and the Tooth Fairy was real and cats could talk.
Another option, althought the 2nd generation versions are kind of expensive
http://www.flyingpasties.com/
Quote from: Lady Christina de Pond on November 19, 2010, 07:35:55 AM
Shortly thereafter an announcement comes over the PA system: "Attention standby passengers — we now have a seat available on flight number ____. Shalom."
"Oh, and cleanup on aisle three!"
Quote from: Lady Christina de Pond on November 19, 2010, 07:35:55 AM
The Israelis are developing an airport security device that eliminates the privacy concerns that come with full-body scanners at the airports.
It's a booth you can step into that will not X-ray you, but will detonate any explosive device you may have on you. They see this as a win-win for everyone, with none of the whining about racial profiling. It also would eliminate the costs of long and expensive trials. Justice would be swift. Case closed!
You're in the airport terminal and you hear a muffled explosion. Shortly thereafter an announcement comes over the PA system: "Attention standby passengers — we now have a seat available on flight number ____. Shalom."
this sounds so much better !!!!! than those scanners
I know that I shouldn't like this idea, but I really really do!
Quote from: Tink on November 19, 2010, 09:53:03 AM
Quote from: Lady Christina de Pond on November 19, 2010, 07:35:55 AM
The Israelis are developing an airport security device that eliminates the privacy concerns that come with full-body scanners at the airports.
It's a booth you can step into that will not X-ray you, but will detonate any explosive device you may have on you. They see this as a win-win for everyone, with none of the whining about racial profiling. It also would eliminate the costs of long and expensive trials. Justice would be swift. Case closed!
You're in the airport terminal and you hear a muffled explosion. Shortly thereafter an announcement comes over the PA system: "Attention standby passengers — we now have a seat available on flight number ____. Shalom."
this sounds so much better !!!!! than those scanners
I know that I shouldn't like this idea, but I really really do!
I don't like this idea. I love it!
I like this too. I'm terribly gullible so don't tease me, but is this real? If so I give it a big Huzzah.
TSA Makes Cancer Victim Remove Prosthetic Breast
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/11/19/national/main7070415.shtml
Scientists -- as opposed to federal, non-scientific employees -- say the backscatter is dangerous.
http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-11-naked-scanners-airports-dangerous-scientists.html
It's a fact that Michael Chertoff is the lobbyist for the backscatter machines.
It's a fact that TSA has never once stopped a terrorist.
It's a fact that El Al has a superior record with a more determined enemy, and they don't use our pointless methods.
It's a fact that TSA can and does save pornographic images of passengers.
It's a fact that if anyone touched you in the manner TSA does, it would be first degree sexual battery.
Quote from: Anna Iram on November 19, 2010, 12:54:10 PM
I like this too. I'm terribly gullible so don't tease me, but is this real? If so I give it a big Huzzah.
i don't know how true it is or not but one of my friends sent me this in my email this morning
Well, I decided to quit flying several years ago after the TSA inspectors stole some items from my luggage: several packs of cigarettes (when I was still smoking) and some prescription pain medication. Cigs were already $5-6 a pack (here, anyway) and narcotic pain meds go for several $$ each on the drug market.
I wish I was brave enough, and was endowed enough not to be embarrassed, and I would fly in a kilt, exposing myself in public to the inspectors and anyone near enough. Enough is clearly enough. The crock-of-shine that is the TSA and the Patriot Act need to be gotten rid of immediately.
Well, I for one, will use a paper sack...lol!
We came home from California 2 years ago. Both bags were 'cut' so the TSA could look to see what may be hidden under the fabric. They left a nice ::) note, saying they were sorry. Now the thing is, they 'cut' the bags when we left NY, so why the hell didn't they check there again?
The kicker is, both bags were TSA approved! >:(
I heard on a radio show, a discussion where people are so disappointed in the way the public is searched. They said, prisoners get that type of treatment not the general public. So I called in and told them about the kilt wearing and going full monty underneath! LMAO! They said to tell you all to, wash those 'giblets'! ;D
T-S-A
"T-ouch and S-queeze your A-ss
Sooo, anyone got the brass to tuck a big pair of plastic "truck nutz" under their kilt? Line the inner edge with a mouse trap or three?
Quote from: Morgan Dreadlocke on November 19, 2010, 07:38:30 PM
Sooo, anyone got the brass to tuck a big pair of plastic "truck nutz" under their kilt? Line the inner edge with a mouse trap or three?
:o :o :o
Bwahahahaha!!! (http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c353/Knoty-Dragon/FUNNY/24.gif)
TSA, watch your ...ummm...what's the current replacement phrase?
Thousands Standing Around
Totally Stupid Administration
In Part because of complaints about radiation safety concerns pilots are now exempt from full body scans and intrusive search...Flight attendents are still subject to both. Apparently it's not about employee health but more about who screeners would rather see naked.
On a realated airline security note, pilots can carry guns but not flight attendants. So just what are they searching the pilots for??? Why would you scan the pilots if they can legally carry a gun???
Two years ago a US Airways pilot shot out the windscreen while on approach at 8,000 ft. The bullet pierced the aircraft skin. Apparently the windsreen refused to be patted down leaving the pilot no choice. Our security is run by the 3 Stooges! ::)
It can't be run by the Stooges. They would be doing a better job than this.
exactly and i'm sorry there was nothing random about the scanners when i came home from Peru.
i think they made 90 percent of my team go thru the scanners thats not random
What was the name of that movie with Meg Ryan sitting there explaining how she could fake the Big O...??... Now, wouldn't it be interesting to see what would happen if the people they took behind the curtain for the pat down would do that!
Quote from: Sir Ironhead on November 20, 2010, 11:13:16 PM
It can't be run by the Stooges. They would be doing a better job than this.
At the very least, the screening would be a lot more amusing. Or not, depending on how feel about the Three Stooges.
What of those airline passengers who, due to Cancer, wear Colostomy Bags and Prostetic Breasts?? Or those with Steel in their bodies to hold bones together? Should they carry a special card from a Doctor to excuse them from unwarrented searches?
This whole pat down thing is evasive. I have nothing to hide. A body scan should be good enough. I like the El-Al procedures by asking passengers specific questions as they are looked into the eyes.
At least a couple woman have testified that they were required to show their Prostetic Breasts during the "pat down"
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Captain Blackadder: So in the name of security, sir, everyone who enters the room has to have his bottom fondled by this drooling pervert?
Captain Darling: I'm only doing my job, Blackadder.
Captain Blackadder: Well, how lucky you are then that your job is also your hobby.
Quote from: Lady Kathleen of Olmsted on November 22, 2010, 12:48:29 PM
What of those airline passengers who, due to Cancer, wear Colostomy Bags and Prostetic Breasts?? Or those with Steel in their bodies to hold bones together? Should they carry a special card from a Doctor to excuse them from unwarrented searches?
My wife has such a card for her hip replacement. Even 4/5 years ago which was the last time we flew someplace she automatically got a pat-down for setting off the metal detector.
The whole body radiation dose is a concern as well. Experiments (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentation_in_the_United_States) were done under government sanction in the 1940's and 1950's and determined that no level of whole body exposure was safe. So the TSA would rather molest innocent citizens instead of investing of chemical blowers or bomb-sniffing dogs?
Italy has stopped using these scanners because in real world tests they have proven ineffective.
Write your congressman and protest this violation of Fourth Amendment.
I think the body scan is plenty invasive enough, but then I'm in disagreement with the whole thing to start with. I'm not going to live afraid of everything.
I won't fly any more, not out of fear of terrorists, but fear of a government (and I am NOT talking about a specific administration, I'm talking about the government PERIOD) that is using fear tactics to further their agenda, for example, to enlarge their military and defense spending out of control. The last time I flew, the people that were "protecting me," stole from me, so I don't buy into that bit about it being for my own good. Maybe this should be on the rant thread, but I am really, REALLY fed up with this garbage!
Quote from: Lady Kathleen of Olmsted on November 22, 2010, 12:48:29 PM
What of those airline passengers who, due to Cancer, wear Colostomy Bags and Prostetic Breasts?? Or those with Steel in their bodies to hold bones together? Should they carry a special card from a Doctor to excuse them from unwarrented searches?
This whole pat down thing is evasive. I have nothing to hide. A body scan should be good enough. I like the El-Al procedures by asking passengers specific questions as they are looked into the eyes.
A gentleman with bladder cancer was on the news this evening...He warned the agent he had an external bladder but they "squeezed" him anyway. The bladder burst soaking him in urine. He had no choice but to board the plane "wet".
Quote from: Merlin the Elder on November 22, 2010, 12:01:59 PM
What was the name of that movie with Meg Ryan sitting there explaining how she could fake the Big O...??... Now, wouldn't it be interesting to see what would happen if the people they took behind the curtain for the pat down would do that!
When Harry met Sally......
Ohh Mr TSA Person...OOHHHHHHHHHH yeaaa... :o ....lmao sorry.....
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101124/ap_on_bi_ge/us_airport_security
Quote from: SirRichardBear on November 22, 2010, 01:16:07 PM
At least a couple woman have testified that they were required to show their Prostetic Breasts during the "pat down"
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Captain Blackadder: So in the name of security, sir, everyone who enters the room has to have his bottom fondled by this drooling pervert?
Captain Darling: I'm only doing my job, Blackadder.
Captain Blackadder: Well, how lucky you are then that your job is also your hobby.
Borrowing this! LMAO
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Rofl
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hope you don't mind but I will be borrowing that graphic
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hope you don't mind but I will be borrowing that graphic
Then you might like this one too...
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