TSA: Making air travel safer by patting pilots' genitals
I’ve already raged twice about new TSA screening machines (that take pornographic images under your clothes) and TSA’s new enhanced interrogation “pat-down” procedure that involves touching genitals and fondling breasts.
I had assumed kids were exempt but learned tonight that even kids must submit to either porno pictures or a groping. I don’t know how this doesn’t violate child pornography law or the U.S. Constitution as an unreasonable search.
I also discovered something even more insane: pilots — who can crash a plane with their bare hands — must also submit to either porno pics or a genital-touching grope session:
Dave Bates heads the Allied Pilots Association, which represents American Airlines pilots and claims to be the largest independent pilots' group in the world. Bates recently told his members that they should refuse the new scans, together know as “Advanced Imaging Technology” (AIT). And he thinks the new pat-downs are a disgusting breach of a pilot’s “privacy and dignity.”
…Bates wants his pilots to get access to airport Security Identification Display Areas (SIDA) without going through the screening that applies to passengers. The thinking appears to be that it makes no sense to screen pilots every time they enter an airport, since they’re going to be flying the actual plane. If they want to hijack it or fly it into a building, the question of whether or not they’re carrying 10 ounces of fluid and pocketknife would seem to be an irrelevant one.
Groping passengers isn’t making us any safer. That TSA believes groping pilots makes us safer proves they don’t know what the hell they’re doing. They’re just training us to be sheep while politicians are siphoning off billions in our taxes to pay their friends who build the pornographic imagery machines.
America has a zillion real problems. Instead of addressing them, we’re throwing away billions to humiliate Americans and piss on our Constitutional rights. Have we gone insane?
Posted by James on Tuesday, November 09, 2010