A brief real-life rant on why our government is freaking insane

[dangermousie]

This time, it's about those idiotic full-body 'see you nekkid' scanners TSA installed in the airports because they are absolute morons who couldn't catch a terrorist when his own father turned him in, and generally should go DIAF

Comments

[dangermousie]

I don't normally think Obama is a morpn (though I don't always agree with his policies) but his comment made me see red. Some champion of human rights he is!

Yes, I fail to see how a naked picture of a minor is not child porn. Jus the thought of someone seeing my daughter that way, or groping her (hello, the very definition of bad touch one warns kids against) makes me sick.

[dangermousie]

This is wrong on every level I can think of, from health to moral. Ugh.

[goddess_6]

THIS! Thank you! I'm giving you a standing ovation.

[dangermousie]

Thank you :)

I can't believe anyone is putting up with this.

[seven_trees]

I swear I've written and rewritten like five versions of this comment but each one ends up as incoherent babble.

I agree wholeheartedly.

I'm completely sickened that children are being put into this machine. I don't have children, but I imagine I'd be completely ready to tear apart the person who was looking at my kid's naked picture. It doesn't matter if that's just their job. This is a violation of privacy and I find it completely repulsive.

The groping option isn't that great either. I don't want to be felt up by some stranger. These procedures are getting so ridiculously extreme I'm wondering if body cavity searches are next. I mean, at this point would you be surprised?

[dangermousie]

I won't be surprised by anything. I hope enough people object and stop flying that it puts the pressure on.

Anyone putting their hands on my daughter is getting them taken off, I don't care if it's a TSA person or freaking Secretary of Defence himself.

[plazmah]

The worst part is idiots who are all “I’m willing to be groped if it protects us from terrorists!” Newsflash, morons: the only thing this is doing is curtailing our freedoms and creating an atmosphere of fear and panic. If someone really want to blow up a plane, they’ll find a way, unfortunately.

[dangermousie]

Exactly. Lob a grenade in a waiting line and voila.

[beck_liz]

I just wish more people were as exercised about this. I keep hearing, "I don't care if I'm seen naked" and "I don't like it, but if it makes us safer..." *headdesk* Good grief.

[dangermousie]

I can't believe people say that. Good God.