more disturbing and ineffectual terrorism prevention

[2eclipse]

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

Comments

[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*