TSA's Airport Gropedowns To Get More Invasive
How can they get more invasive -- rectal checks, like before you get processed into the prison population? (All without probable cause, under cover of this "administrative search" used to separate us from our constitutional rights.)
Justin Bachman writes at Bloomberg/Spokesman-Review:
While few have noticed, U.S. airport security workers long had the option of using five different types of physical pat-downs at the screening line. Now, those have been eliminated, replaced instead with one universal approach. And this time, you will notice.The new physical touching - for those selected to have a pat-down - will be more invasive in what the federal agency describes as a more "comprehensive" physical screening, according to a Transportation Security Administration spokesman.
Denver International Airport, for example, notified employees and flight crews on Thursday that the "more rigorous" searches "will be more thorough and may involve an officer making more intimate contact than before."
As CNN's Angela Rye put it -- echoing what I said:
Dear TSA: The country is not safer because you grab vaginas
What happened to her is exactly what happened to me, and it's about anything but keeping us safe.
As I've said over the years, anyone smart enough to make it in this comments section is probably smart enough to be able to get some kind of contraband on a plane. And without having to go through a gauntlet of hoo-hoo-groping TSA thugsters -- people who'd otherwise be working just down the concourse at Sbarro or Cinnabon.
Still good.
Radwaste at March 5, 2017 4:45 AM
But Amy! If they targeted ME people of a certain age there would be riots, burning cars, protests (different from riots and burning cars), and universities would be suing the government.
Not sure what the Republican voters would be doing other than clapping.
b at March 5, 2017 6:21 AM
But Amy! If they targeted ME people of a certain age there would be riots, burning cars, protests (different from riots and burning cars), and universities would be suing the government.
Not sure what the Republican voters would be doing other than clapping.
(Sorry for the double post.)
Bob in Texas at March 5, 2017 6:22 AM
It's a part of ObamaCare. Colonoscopy or vajayjay exams for free!
Ingrates.
I R A Darth Aggie at March 5, 2017 6:27 AM
And, this is why I will be driving from Colorado to Michigan to visit family this year.
Bonus, I can take the dog.
Daghain at March 5, 2017 8:20 AM
Dog thing is the best.
Amy Alkon at March 5, 2017 11:33 AM
I'd like to see a public movement where those receiving a patdown (gropedown?) demand that it happen in public (which is a right) and then proceed to feign a "When Harry Met Sally"-style orgasm as the agent's hands move over their bodies.
Kevin at March 5, 2017 12:33 PM
By far the most consistently intrusive gropings and the most false-positive x-ray machine readings I've witnessed have been at LAX. If that's the new universal standard to which they're referring, then fuck.
I wanted to refuse the grope but I couldn't afford not to go home. I could not have imagined that the next day would include the immigration fiasco at the airport.
Those fuckers are using the slightest opportunity to do an invasive body grope, or a full bag search and swab, even if (when, including once in Ohio) what they were going for was a container of hand lotion.
I find myself wondering, who do these people go home to at night? And then I remember the Kapo, and I'm reminded that I cannot fathom how close I may have come to embodying the worst of human nature.
Michelle at March 5, 2017 7:59 PM
"I find myself wondering, who do these people go home to at night? And then I remember the Kapo, and I'm reminded that I cannot fathom how close I may have come to embodying the worst of human nature."
It is amazing how some people react to being given power over others. The worst in human nature can come out. I once worked with a gal who had a reputation for being pleasant and easy to work with. Then they made her a supervisor... oy. After three months, her staff was in such a state of revolt that they moved her back to a non-supervisory position. (She never said, but I think she was actually relieved when that happened.) Once out of authority, she went back to being her old easygoing self.
Cousin Dave at March 6, 2017 6:33 AM
"Bonus, I can take the dog. "
Take the small roads so ears can flap in the breeze. Also the dog's ears.
Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at March 6, 2017 1:20 PM
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