The well-dressed traveller...

[fajrdrako]

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.

Comments

[teenygozer]

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.

[lauradi7]

The added radiation from the back-scatter machines is not as cancer-causing as actually flying in a plane

[fajrdrako]

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.

*this* stuff is what's really horrifying

[lauradi7]

http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/articles/monitoring-america/

Re: *this* stuff is what's really horrifying

[fajrdrako]

It's like something out of 1984 or another one of those near-future distopian novels, written before it all actually happened.

Re: *this* stuff is what's really horrifying

[duncanmac]

To be precise, UGGGHHH. :-(

Re: *this* stuff is what's really horrifying

[fajrdrako]

Ugh indeed.

[fajrdrako]

Plane travel used to be so pleasant. Luxurious, even!