Even Evita: Airport Pat-Downs

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It's so hard, so painful to realize that it has come to this.

If this happens to me during our trip in January, there's simply no telling how long it will be until I fly again.

From The New York Times:

Many Women Say Airport Pat-Downs Are a Humiliation

Comments

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This is tragic and nothing new at all. One of the major issues I've had with the entire process developing over the last few years is it shelves the concept of human dignity as a starting place. So this isn't a tragic turn to me so much as an understandable follow-on to bad policy. The most annoying part is many of these measures have no increased security at all.

I still feel like I'm only beginning to figure out how I feel about the war I was in 13 years ago, but the one thing I do know about it is the take away lesson is what people like to dismiss as "politics" is no joke at all. These policies effect peoples lives in a very real way. I find a particular kind of evil to be present in people who are willing to "play the odds" that something bad wont happen to them when it comes to dehumanizing policies like this.

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Agreed about the respect for human dignity, and the fact that this is no joking matter. I feel like we're sliding down the slippery slope at unpleasant speed, and we haven't even technically started the second term, yet. :(

*tries to grab the pendulum to pull it back toward the middle*

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Great, now I have this comic view of you clinging to a pendulum, swiming back and forth like Buster Keton. :)