more disturbing and ineffectual terrorism prevention

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the stuff going on for "security" purposes in airports really fries me off. i really don't believe we are preventing terrorism. i believe we are making flying worse than it already is. and now they want to look at our naughty bits. i'll take the pat-down, thanks.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080610/ts_alt_afp/ustransportaviationsecurity_080610211153

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[madjulyin.livejournal.com]

they may start to weigh us as well!

http://bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aJmRIapedEs0&refer=home

[patchhat.livejournal.com]

"Once the transportation security officer has viewed the image, the image is erased from the screen permanently. The officer is unable to print, export, store or transmit the image."

except by camera or cellphone snapshot.

it astounds me how idiotic people in charge can be. "oh, no, people won't mind us looking thru their clothes... it's for national security afterall".

all they are accomplishing is destroying their own future business. people will put up with this crap for only so long. the stupid rules, the gas prices, etc... eventually, all rational people will simply walk away, stop using the product or service, and then the providers of that product or service will simply shrivel and die. if they "change their ways" after pushing people too far, they might gain some new business back, but resourceful people will have found another way to fill the need.

i'd really love to have heard that sophomoric board meeting where they decided it was necessary to view their passengers naked. *shakes head*.. now -that- would make for interesting reality tv.

quite a while ago i'd decided i never wanted to travel by air again.. when the security had only started to get ridiculous... after hearing this, it only solidifies that decision.

[vileone.livejournal.com]

No, no, this is great. We can turn it into a real party atmosphere. You can pick your security line, oggle or fondle. Will they finally let me just go through the airport naked? That would really speed things up.

But I have to feel sorry for the folks who have to watch those monitors. I mean, I've seen the people in the security line. I would not want to be the guy who has to check them out naked in good lighting.

[patchhat.livejournal.com]

"Will they finally let me just go through the airport naked?"

this is a question i believe is worth asking... i wonder what their reaction would be to 100 naked people trying to get thru security. seriously, you're not trying to hide anything, you'd be -really- easy to identify... d'you think they'd just let you bypass security so long as you didn't have carry-on?

actually, scratch that. they've gotta invade your privacy somehow, otherwise they'd feel cheated. i'm sure that they'd feel obligated to find -something- to search... and since you've got no clothes to go thru, it's the rubber glove special. *snap*