The well-dressed traveller...

Dec 29, 2010 16:32



Last month I went through the appalling security at American airports. Why people allow it to continue, I can't imagine.

I wish I'd been wearing these.

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dejla December 29 2010, 21:45:22 UTC
Probably because we don't have a lot of choice. We don't get to vote on those things, and if we did, we'd probably vote it down.

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fajrdrako December 29 2010, 22:52:51 UTC
...I think the underwear is a great idea. But it really wouldn't make much sense for me to wear it, as I'm pretty sure we don't have anything called the 4th amendment. But I'm sure there's some BNA statute that covers the same thing.

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duncanmac December 29 2010, 23:29:31 UTC
That would be Section Eight of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms here in Canada, which covers the same ground as the U.S. Fourth Amendment.

And yes, I find the attitude of the U.S. TSA to be detestable. As Edmund Burke put it over two centuries ago: "All that is required for evil people to succeed is for good people to do nothing."

I think a Clue Server needs to be rebooted somewhere in the U.S. Government.

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dewline December 30 2010, 00:20:34 UTC
A lot of people in the States known to each of us have been making that effort, but it's tough slogging for them so far.

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teenygozer December 30 2010, 01:53:24 UTC
You can refuse to go through -- and should, as the radiation is cancer-causing. Seriously, TPTB have so far refused to let anyone see the tests that were made or any documentation, but a few have leaked and it doesn't look at all good. My sister is a nurse and has been warned by every doctor she knows, doubly so by the radiologists, that it's dangerous radiation that she should not allow herself to be exposed to (she's a world-traveler and is constantly planning a visit to yet another country.)

Of course, then the smurfs get to search you physically, and they *are* thuggish bastards who would have jobs asking, "Do you want fries with that?" in a meritocracy situation.

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lauradi7 December 30 2010, 02:59:36 UTC
The added radiation from the back-scatter machines is not as cancer-causing as actually flying in a plane ( ... )

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fajrdrako December 30 2010, 20:15:42 UTC
Makes me want to go everywhere by boat. 'Course, I want to do that anyway.

My experience was that (a) the TSA people were kind of embarrassed and almost apologetic about what they had to do to us but (b) they did it anyway.

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*this* stuff is what's really horrifying lauradi7 December 30 2010, 23:36:16 UTC

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