When does it stop with these ridiculous TSA security measures?

[Danger Mouse]

As if the stuff they were doing ALREADY wasn't bad enough, now they're doing invasive groping for people who opt out of going through the full-body x-ray? You get to choose which way you and your loved ones are ashamed and violated! Hooray!

Even the kids can get involved! :puke: Enough is enough. I'm glad to see a lot of people angry over this...because this shit needs to end. If we just meekly accept it like sheep, it'll only escalate. What happens when somebody inevitably tries to hide a bomb in their...body cavity? You can bet the TSA will be breaking out the white gloves and telling you to bend over. We need to speak up NOW, fight this NOW, and not lie down and accept increasingly ridiculous violations of our bodies.

I for one REFUSE TO FLY until this shit is ended. I hope those of you who are able will join me in this. Enough of this authoritarian bullshit. This is supposed to be America, land of the free, home of the brave. The more we do shit like this, the more we give in to the terrorists.

[Hardrada]

1. We'll take a train.

[notesdev]

7. You're in luck!

TSA chief John Pistole to put priority on rail, subways



"Here's lookin' at you, kid!"

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2010-07-16-tsa16_ST_N.htm

[Danger Mouse]

23. Oh shit.

[GiordanoBruno]

20. To Hawaii?

[Posteritatis]

2. I'm still waiting for someone to seriously suggest simply shackling all passengers

After that idiotic rule about passengers not being allowed to have anything in their hands they tried for awhile last year - one of my friends got snapped at for looking at the in-flight magazine over that - there isn't exactly anything that would surprise me.

[Matariki]

3. If we roll over on this, what's next?

It will be a good indication on how people will receive Social Security cuts, Medicare cuts, insurance mandates without protections, a draft. A little bit of backlash and fuss, but no real resistance?

I really hope not. I hope there's *a lot* of resistance. I'm thoroughly disgusted. I'm upset at the very idea that this is 'no big deal'.

[Danger Mouse]

8. It IS a big deal, it errodes our freedoms slowly but surely.

[ishaneferguson]

4. When They Throw In A Colonoscopy NT

[Cali_Democrat]

5. The terrorists won the moment we started dropping bombs on Afghanistan

This is just icing on the cake for them.

Bin Laden got everything he wanted and then some. America is bankrupt, our soldiers continue to die, the world hates us and now America is conducting virtual strip searches of its citizens.

Bin Laden is smiling like a cheshire cat.

[Danger Mouse]

9. It doesn't matter how many of them we kill, we'll never win with blood and iron.

[Cali_Democrat]

11. Indeed. n/t

[NRaleighLiberal]

6. Flying was ruined for me after the OTT response to 911.

It's only gotten worse over time. I guess in a way this takes the cake....my wife and I just feel fortunate that our jobs don't cause us to fly very often....and with dogs, when we visit family, we drive.

[slackmaster]

16. The degradation of liberty and privacy started years before 911. I'd put it in the summer of 1987.

I remember the first time somebody told me I couldn't carry a folding Buck knife on a plane. It happened in Birmingham, Alabama. I was in the middle of a trip all over the place. I had always carried a big knife before that moment, and have never been permitted to since then.

I was allowed to carry a Swiss Army knife until 9/11.

[slackmaster]

10. As soon as enough people stop flying because of the measures corporate pressure will fix the problem

I refuse to fly as well.

[Danger Mouse]

14. The only thing they care about is their profit margin, and the airlines are doing badly as it is...

once the revenue starts to fall, you can bet those shiny new machines will be in the landfill.

[slackmaster]

17. Egg-zactly

The corps will go along with anything the .gov wants until it starts cutting into their action.

[Tatiana]

12. It stops when a significant number of us refuse to purchase airline tickets.

Seriously, if this started to hit the airlines in the pocketbook, considering the corporations pretty much OWN our country, you'd see TSA backing away from these overly invasive procedures.

However, as long as the bottom line is not affected greatly, they will keep foisting these ridiculous policies down our throat because everyone will have concluded that we've been conditioned to accept this sort of treatment as part of "post-9/11 Murika."

I absolutely refuse to fly under these circumstances.

[Danger Mouse]

19. 9/11 ruined us.

[Catherina]

13. I won't fly unless there's a serious illness or death in the family. This is too much. Rec'd n/t

[somone]

15. Your public servants at TSA will not rest until there is total security:

[Newest Reality]

18. Well,

this seems like an excellent way to avoid making Peak Oil a prominent issue. Perhaps less flying is what is on the agenda?

Hell, the deadbeat rich have their own planes so we only really need airports for them and those can be maintained by the burgeoning, insourced corporate prison industry. That's almost free labor there. Well, the remaining tax payers will subsidize that largely.

All we need is more and more Draconian laws with entrapment frosting on them in order to transfer the unemployed into Military-Industrial Serfdom. In a game with rules like that, (try to keep out of prison) the USA can be still be an Empire of sorts.

[LisaL]

21. When we are all required to board naked after thorough cavity

searches.

[Danger Mouse]

22. And they taze a few people for good measure, all in the name of 'safety'

[Canuckistanian]

24. It stops when Americans say it does

I do hope they do the right thing. These things tend to MIGRATE across borders.

[Danger Mouse]

25. I hope so, too. I really do.

Otherwise, I'm not sure how much of a future this country has left..

[NRaleighLiberal]

26. have to agree with you on that.

[Danger Mouse]

27. I've been worried about this country...ever since Bush 2 was installed.