When I first started to smell the whiff of where Airport security was going, I was already horrified with so many TSA agents and Airport workers caught stealing out of passenger’s luggage. There have been documented cases of stealing all over the country, Houston, Chicago, New York and other locations. Then there was the worker who was caught slipping white powder into passenger bags…..This builds enormous confidence with our safety when flying. Granted a laptop or two might disappear out of your luggage, but at least people in Muslim garb will be ignored and get on the plane.
They were saving the best for last however.
Now we have nudie machines and groping of our privates if we refuse the machines. This is being described even by the ACLU as “foreplay.” TSA officials admit that their agents use their fingers and palms to feel around the breasts and genitals. I remember last year when they started placing these ‘porno’ machines in Airports, I predicted photos of the people would be stored somewhere….and where? I also predicted certain nudie shots of men and women, celebrities, politicians and other known people would be passed around, shared, sold and used against them later. I was right. Folks are already reporting that snide comments have been reported about TSA making fun of breast size and someone’s small penis.
The TSA will let folks opt out of the body scan for privacy reasons but then you are faced with the grope and physical pat-down (foreplay) all over your privates.
Why should we trust the TSA with all these stored photos of us nude walking through their machines just because they have a policy stating that they don’t store them or keep them. They also have a policy for TSA workers not to steal things out of baggage, yet millions of dollars worth of items have been reported stolen the last few years.
Even the security exports regarding the nudie machine admit they can’t catch all bombs strapped in or around a body anyway, so what in God’s green earth are we doing this for? Is it just to provide a big thrill for lazy TSA workers and provide photos to sell later?
If the TSA really wanted to get real with security since 9/11, they would have started profiling (not persecuting) Islamic people and foreigners much more closely. They could have taken a very successful training lesson from El Al from Israel who does it right. Instead, the rest of us had our toes searched and tweezers snatched. Now, after our bunions are searched, our breasts are groped.
These nudie scanners are even being rejected by the largest Pilot’s Union in the world because of radiation risk. Steve Watson, from infowars.com talks about this danger and the ‘backscatter’ AIT devices being used to produce ionizing radiation, known to be potentially dangerous to your health.
Other scientists have weighed in about the danger of these machines and obviously the Pilots who fly all the time are urged to opt out and submit to the pat downs.
I guess the rest of us are chopped liver and it doesn’t matter if we fly a lot and get too much radiation flowing through our bodies. We are considered domestic terrorists anyway so naturally we should get cancer if we choose to travel.
There are other elephants running through the room regarding safety and security at airports. So far, we have radiation risk, or groping hell, but what about all the germ and bacteria risk no one is talking about? I’m talking about being forced to take our shoes off, then walk through the security machine area, mindless of the endless bacteria, athletes foot and God knows what other germs are living and breeding on the floor where countless people walk a day. I have never seen airport officials spray or sanitize where the mobs of people are forced through like cattle. Airports must be Mecca for spreading disease and flu. All you were trying to do was to get on the plane.
There is no reason whatsoever for Body Scanners and groping. It is a total violation and invasion to our right to privacy, safety and health. TSA should try REAL security strategies, like profiling of Muslims and foreigners. They should also give real back ground checks to their employees and support healthy sanitary practices.
Leave my body and privacy alone.
Dr. Laurie Roth Just Who is this Annie Oakley of the airwaves?
Laurie Roth has a Ph.D. in counseling and a black belt in Tae Kwon Do, is happily married and currently resides in Washington State. She is a singer/songwriter with five CD albums to her credit.
