0 comment Saturday, May 24, 2014 | admin
Last Monday I was furiously compiling a list of TSA horror stories, as catalogued by the Washington Post in the comment section to this post. And I came across this anonymous comment:"to all of you who think GateRape is neither an invasion of your privacy nor an unwarranted usurpation of your 4th amendment rights, may I remind you of Ben Franklin's quote 'They who would trade liberty for security soon have none and deserve neither.'
I don't know what the solution is but sexual assault (virtual or physical) on children while their parents are forced to watch is not the answer.
I'll be driving and enjoying the scenery out the car window."
Posted by: FedUp389 | November 15, 2010 12:41 PM"Gate rape," I thought to myself. Why, that just sums it up perfectly.
Pickled tink, I wrote a post and called it, "Gate Rape: the Saga Continues." (Am I obsessed? Yes. And I will be for the foreseeable future. I get really hot and bothered when the Constitution is suspended on our own soil.)
When that nice Iowa Hawk man -- go read his clever TSA version of "Come Fly With Me" -- kindly linked to my "comply and fly away" post, I thanked him and told him to feel free to appropriate "gate rape."
Because it's the message, not the messenger, that's important here. It is gate rape. Let's not kid ourselves. Ah, but I better stop now, before I launch into a diatribe about our 4th amendment rights and begin frothing at the mouth.
In any event, it appears "gate rape" took off from there.
So, as Paul Harvey would say, "that's the rest of the story."
And "FedUp389," whoever you are? You da' bomb.
Labels: Body Scans, Fedup389, Gate Rape, Naked People Machines, Strip Searches, Tsa, Washington Post, Who Coined Gate Rape?
0 comment Sunday, May 4, 2014 | admin
About those naked pictures from the radiation machines. Recall the TSA has repeatedly assured us that the pictures cannot be stored or transmitted, that they are instantly destroyed.This has never seemed plausible to me. How can the TSA have any quality assurance without storage of the naked people pictures? If a bad guy slips by, you can be damn sure TSA will be able to figure out where and how it happened.
So you'll never believe this, but guess what? The images can be saved and stored. 100 naked people pictures from a courthouse in Florida were leaked onto the internet. Fortunately for the naked people involved , the courthouse machines had far lower resolution capabilities than the machines used by TSA.
Talk about a nakation!And Napolitano has repeatedly claimed the pat-downs are "discrete" (ha!) and that the radiation machines are safe. They pose no health risks. But that's not what independent experts say.
Independent experts point out there is no "real independent safety data" for these machines. In fact, these experts pleaded with the Obama administration, back in April, for an urgent independent evaluation, to no avail.
Dr. Michael Love of Johns Hopkins said,
"They say the risk is minimal, but statistically someone is going to get skin cancer from these X-rays. No exposure to X-ray is considered beneficial. We know X-rays are hazardous, but we have a situation at the airports where people are so eager to fly that they will risk their lives in this manner." (emph. added)
And remember, these TSA safety claims are coming from the same administration that told a federal court judge that "experts" supported its oil-drilling moratorium when that was simply not true.
Now it's come to light that TSA agents are putting their hands in our pants.
That's it. I'm done.
Labels: Backscatter Images, Florida Courthouse, Gate Rape, Hands In Our Pants, Images Stored, Internet, Leaked, Napolitano, Skin Cancer, Tsa Searches Screaming Three-Year Old Girl, US Marshals