No Naked Photos!

I'VE ONLY SERVED FIFTY YEARS OF MY TIME: GUILTY

Memphis Pilot denies TSA to scan his full body or to illegally perform a full body search on him

This is a national hero.

The TSA investigator arrived and asked for my account of the situation. I explained that the agents weren't allowing me to pass through the checkpoint. He told me he had been advised that I was refusing security screening, to which I replied that I had willingly walked through the metal detector with no alarms, the same way I always do when commuting to work. He then briefed me on the recent screening policy changes and, apparently confused, asked whether they would be a problem for me. I stated that I did indeed have a problem with the infringement of my civil rights and liberty.

His reply: "That's irrelevant."

We have to stop the fascism developing in this country that is tearing down the boundaries of decency and accusing our president of being a socialist and making "Marxist" a common stereotype to anyone with a slight liberal bent.

Personal account: A few years ago - BEFORE that guy set fire to himself, I refused to take my shoes off because they were slip on shoes and I couldn't possibly be carrying anything in them that wouldn't show up in the metal detectors. Also I was really grouchy, tired, and feeling extremely self-righteous.

The TSA guards flipped out on me. They were like "come on buddy why you got to do this?" and I said "you asked me if I would like to take my shoes off, I'm telling you simply no I do not want to." I said I don't think I should have to. This led to me getting a full search and holding me up for my plane of course. Around this time I got flagged and for years I had to go through the full search every time I went through security. This always was a laugh because I have a metal plate and 6 screws in my left arm (radius). The guys with the high frequency scanners get a chuckle when the scanners go off from that stuff.


Look at what's already out there scanning you and your children probably every time you go through a toll booth or pass any federal building:

http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2010/0927/technology-x-rays-homeland-security-aclu-drive-by-snooping.html

UPDATED 11/22/2010

Things are going to get a whole lot worse before they get better:

TSA responds to traveler outrages

Denver TSA operator caught masterbating to female high school sports team members going through full-body scanner.


Body Scanner Operator Caught Masturbating at Colorado Airport
Category: Colorado News,Off the Beaten Path – xstreme – 1:34 pm
Body Scanner Operator Caught Masturbating at Colorado Airport
DENVER – USA – A full body scanner operator was caught masturbating during a scanning session by airport staff late Tuesday.
Not only do the new airport body scanners take risque pictures but according to the U.S. Marshals Service, the images in their thousands are being saved on hard disks.
Airport officials at Denver International airport were on high alert yesterday when a full body scanner operator was caught masturbating in his booth as a team of High School netball players went through the scanner.

“The young ladies were going through the scanner one by one, and every time one went through, this guys face was getting redder and redder. His hand was moving and then he started sweating. He was then seen doing his ‘O’ face. That’s when the security dragged him out of his booth and cuffed him. He had his pants round his ankles and everybody was really disgusted,” Jeb Rather, a passenger on a flight to New York told CBS news.



The controversial scanners display every minute detail of a person’s body and have been called intrusive by privacy campaigners. Body scanners penetrate clothing to provide a highly detailed image so accurate that critics have likened it to a virtual porn shoot. Technologies vary, with millimeter wave systems capturing highly detailed pictures of genitals, and backscatter X-ray machines able to show precise anatomical detail. The U.S. government likes the idea because body scanners can detect concealed weapons better than traditional magnetometers.

“What do you want to do, get blown up by a goddamn Arab at 30,000 feet or we get to see your private parts? It’s up to you, the ball’s in your park,” head of the TSA’s scanning department, Rodney Schroeder, told CNN.
This article is categorized under “Colorado News” and “Off the beaten path” sections, no pun intended.