Apparently, there's a law that images in the scanners is supposed to be deleted are ending up being saved.
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Would You Let Them Touch Your Junk?
by minimus 69 Replies latest jw friends
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sammielee24
The day will come when you won't have a choice between the full body scanner and the groping. It's just a matter of time. The saddest part is that it really doesn't do too much if someone really wants to hide a bomb up their butt..of course, most of us understand that these body scanners will be obsolete in another year and replaced with complete biometrical scanners anyway. I do believe that if you are going to force people to go through these things, then you should apply that rule to EVERY person flying regardless of culture or religion.
They are saving these pictures, we all know they have been in some places because there is proof of that. I wouldn't fly with my children and put them through a scanner nor a pat down because there is nowhere that it would be necessary for them to fly to. Everyone has to decide for themselves. Mind you...perhaps this is all more intrusion in an attempt to get people to stop flying.
These were some stories about the pat downs .....sammieswife
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Two disturbing stories have just surfaced on blogs: today Our Little Chatterboxes popular mommyblogger Erin just put up the entry TSA – Sexual Assault. It is very disturbing.
(…) She did not tell me that she was going to touch my vagina area or my labia.
She then told me that I could put my shoes on and I asked if I could pick up the baby, she replied Yes.
She then moved back to my belongings to finish scanning them with the paper discs for explosives. When she finished she said I was free to go.
I stood there holding my baby in shock. I did not move for almost a minute.
I stood there, an American citizen, a mom traveling with a baby with special needs formula, sexually assaulted by a government official. I began shaking and felt completely violated, abused and assaulted by the TSA agent. I shook for several hours, and woke up the next day shaking. [Link]
Clearly, the new search technique was not invented by a woman, or any kind of a survivor of sexual trauma. A week ago, PNC – Minnesota posted an account of another female traveler,Rape Survivor Devastated by TSA Enhanced Pat Down:
(…) “This was a nightmare come to life,” Celeste says, “I said I didn’t want them to see me naked and the agent started yelling Opt out- we have an opt here. Another agent took me aside and said they would have to pat me down. He told me he was going to touch my genitals and asked if I wouldn’t rather just go through the scanner, that it would be less humiliating for me. I was in shock. I couldn’t believe this was happening. I kept saying I don’t want any of this to happen. I was whispering please don’t do this, please, please.”
Since Celeste didn’t agree to go through the scanner, the enhanced pat down began. “He started at one leg and then ran his hand up to my crotch. He cupped and patted my crotch with his palm. Other flyers were watching this happen to me. At that point I closed my eyes and started praying to the Goddess for strength. He also cupped and then squeezed my breasts. That wasn’t the worst part. He touched my face, he touched my hair, stroking me. That’s when I started crying. It was so intimate, so horrible. I feel like I was being raped. There’s no way I can fly again. I can’t do it.” [Link]
* UK passengers do not have the Opt Out option and are required go through the scanners. Image credit:
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Leolaia
Yes you have a right to privacy, to refuse searches, be secure in your person etc. But you don't have a right to fly in an airplane.
Freedom of movement is fundamental Constitutional right recognized by the Supreme Court. Air travel is the only realistic mode of transportation into and out of Hawaii.
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Ding
What's next -- routine body cavity searches?
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SixofNine
Would You Let Them Touch Your Junk?
Could they, would they, on a plane?
I would let them touch my trunk.
I could, I would, let a stew named Jane.
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Black Sheep
Interesting view by a scanner...
It wasn't.
That was a hoax
You can get the original photo here
http://www.f1online.de/f1online/index.cfm?location=search&colNo=2274&language=1
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BurnTheShips
My Very Own TSA Nightmare
I guess there is a new category of suspect persons to the TSA: “traveling with scars."“Pat downs or Full-Body Imaging? TSA Airport Backlash” screams the headline for an article on OpenMarket.org. My only quibble with the piece is that the headline implies there is an either/or choice at the security barrier. I went through the process on Monday and got both the scan and the pat-down — and more.
I was traveling from D.C. to Maine via the Baltimore airport. The line was moving very slowly thanks to a woman who refused to be scanned or groped. This confused the TSA officers to the point that they began chatting about what to do with her.
As usual, I stripped myself of anything metallic except my earring and buttons. I put all of it in a gray bin and pushed my bag through the machine, after having to wait for several people in wheelchairs to cut in front of me and go through the process.
I went through the scanner fully cooperating and followed the instructions. Yet I was still taken aside as I exited the machine. No warning bells went off like with the old metal detectors, so I thought it might be random.
As I was asked to move aside, a TSA woman said to me: “Do you know you look like Ron Jeremy (the porn star)? I guess you get that a lot.” I replied that I also got “Gene Simmons,” which I preferred. Needless to say, I replied to them in a polite manner despite the inappropriate banter.
They took me aside and did the pat-down, feeling all over my body as is their habit. Then the TSA officer proceeded to feel my stomach as if I were a pregnant woman. He explained that I had a hard patch on my stomach and they wanted to check it and make sure it was all me. It was painful and disturbing.
I informed the TSA officer that it was the scar from my colon cancer operation that went from my crotch to my sternum. A day later the scar still hurtsfrom the kneading and prodding. I was informed they were checking in order to determine if I had anything sewn into my stomach. I offered to lift my shirt to show the TSA officer the still rather graphic scar, but he refused.
So in just five minutes I was told I looked like a notorious porn star by a TSA female employee and then had my scar examined by a man. I was so very pleased to be reminded of the painful and frightening (I had post-op complications including “dying several times”) experience of a few years ago.
I guess there is a new category of suspect persons to the TSA: “traveling with scars.”
What exactly did all this have to do with stopping terrorists? Why was it necessary to embarrass and humiliate me? What was accomplished by this disgusting display by a power-drunk staff? I have never had this sort of experience before despite my frequent traveling both in the U.S. and abroad.
Surely it would have been better had the dozens of staff on hand been inspecting packages in the holds of airplanes instead of kneading my scar.
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Finally-Free
I find my standards getting lower as I get older and more decrepit. If someone wants to touch my junk, I say 'go for it'. It would give me a much needed thrill.
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sammielee24
TSA sees sanitary napkins in naked body scans
By David Edwards
Tuesday, November 16th, 2010 -- 12:47 pmThe Transportation Security Administration (TSA) now admits that airport scanners that can see through clothes to create images of the naked body can also detect sanitary napkins.
New York Times reporter Joe Sharkey wrote that he was getting a lot of question from women who travel in a little noticed article Monday.
"Do the imagers, for example, detect sanitary napkins?" women wanted to know. "Yes," wrote Sharkey.
"Does that then necessitate a pat-down? The T.S.A. couldn’t say. Screeners, the T.S.A. has said, are expected to exercise some discretion."
"And what about tampons?" asked the blogFeminist Peace Network. "They look kind of like sticks of dynamite. Are they going to ask us to pull them out and show them just to be sure?"
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minimus
Can a JW who works at the airport be disfellowshipped for touching the junk of another?
