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National Opt Out Day

Sarge

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Traveling on the day before Thanksgiving? Don't want your four year old daughter groped? Don't want someone touching your junk?

Make life hard for these PC clowns.

http://www.optoutday.com/
 
If these idiots clog up the airport on Wednesday, I swear I might go postal. 85% of Americans support these devices, and have ZERO PROBLEMS with them. Its a 15% minority that objects to them, and of that 15%, I bet only 2-3% fly with any regularity.

People are bringing ****ING BOMBS ON AIRPLANES. Why would you EVER object to high-tech scanning procedures? Don't worry, I'm sure nobody WANTS to see you "naked" anyway.
 
I'm opting out. I'm driving.
 
If these idiots clog up the airport on Wednesday, I swear I might go postal. 85% of Americans support these devices, and have ZERO PROBLEMS with them. Its a 15% minority that objects to them, and of that 15%, I bet only 2-3% fly with any regularity.

People are bringing ****ING BOMBS ON AIRPLANES. Why would you EVER object to high-tech scanning procedures? Don't worry, I'm sure nobody WANTS to see you "naked" anyway.

What people are bringing bombs on planes?

Go ahead, you can say it.

I don't think any of them have been nuns or 4 year olds
 
I'll repeat - 85% of Americans support these devices. Weren't you fringe-types all about the will of the people when the majority didn't support health care? Well, now the majority supports these devices. Suck it up!
 
I'll repeat - 85% of Americans support these devices. Weren't you fringe-types all about the will of the people when the majority didn't support health care? Well, now the majority supports these devices. Suck it up!

Link???????
 
Wonder how many of those people fly?
I thought your O.P. was tongue in cheek but it appears you actually are against this. So you don't have a problem with the govt. eavesdropping on your personal, private conversations, but you do have a problem with someone checking out your junk to make sure you don't have a bomb or weapon before boarding a plane?

Somehow, I'm not seeing the big difference when it comes to security. In fact, IMHO the invasion of privacy is much greater with the former than the later.

As for your question above, I'd also ask how many people on the ground are at risk from a jetliner being used as a missle? Obviously it's not just those on the plane that are at risk, so they don't get to unilaterally make a decision that could affect many more people on the ground.

Objections to this are no different than people that object to being seen naked during healthcare exams/procedures on religious grounds or due to modesty. Trust me, we've seen a million of them just like yours, albeit most about 50% bigger :devilish: and at this point we're so desensitized that the only reaction you're likely to get is a :yawnee:
 
Mike, there are non-porn, nude photos all over the web designed for medical/academic use. One of the biggest differences between these photos and porn is the hiding of the identity of the subject. Take a look at the x-ray pics on their website. I challenge you to pick the guy in that photo out of a lineup. Even if you could, I still wouldn't have a major problem with it.

As for the burkha comment, I've flown in/out of Dulles 10 or 12 times in the past year. In every case all the Muslim women I observed, some in burkhas and others in differing degrees of cover, were offered the option to be screened by a female TSA staffer in a private area. I see no difference between that and what's being offered to everyone else. What's good for the goose....

Finally, your argument about professionalism holds only minimal water. True, I don't expect TSA types to be quite as professional as physicians for example. However, physicians are often guilty of sexual misconduct with patients so don't think they're immune. However, the TSA staffers are probably in the same boat as most non-physician clinicians. That is, their opportunities to observe/interact with the subjects are mostly limited to observed incidents that would make misconduct difficult.

Besides, the issue of desensitization applies no matter who's doing the screening. Once one has seen five or six sets of "ta-tas" for example, the "oooh ahhh" factor is gone. It just is. This is especially true when seeing it in uninterrupted fashion, one after the other, all day long. As I said, it doesn't take long for it to become not only routine, but boring.
 
I thought your O.P. was tongue in cheek but it appears you actually are against this. So you don't have a problem with the govt. eavesdropping on your personal, private conversations, but you do have a problem with someone checking out your junk to make sure you don't have a bomb or weapon before boarding a plane?


That's exactly right. I have nothing to hide in my communications, so the government, if it's even interested enough, can listen in all it wants. However, the TSA doesn't need to be sticking their hands down my pants. Thing is, these new procedures were intitiated after the panty bomber incident. That guy was coming INTO the country, not standing in line to get out. So because of this, Americans have to be subjected to this crap, but future panty bombers still get to get on a plane outside the country

Somehow, I'm not seeing the big difference when it comes to security. In fact, IMHO the invasion of privacy is much greater with the former than the later.

Your opinion, of course


As for your question above, I'd also ask how many people on the ground are at risk from a jetliner being used as a missle? Obviously it's not just those on the plane that are at risk, so they don't get to unilaterally make a decision that could affect many more people on the ground.

Objections to this are no different than people that object to being seen naked during healthcare exams/procedures on religious grounds or due to modesty. Trust me, we've seen a million of them just like yours, albeit most about 50% bigger :devilish: and at this point we're so desensitized that the only reaction you're likely to get is a :yawnee:

I could care less one way or the other, because I have a little government ID card that gets me through all the crap. My concern is Mrs Sarge and others like her. I ceratialy wouldn't stand for some dude groping her like that at a Skins game
 
Your opinion, of course
Absolutely.

...That guy was coming INTO the country, not standing in line to get out. So because of this, Americans have to be subjected to this crap, but future panty bombers still get to get on a plane outside the country.
Here's the problem I have with our approach to security screening in general and profiling in particular. We do an excellent job of preparing for and/or preventing the last attempted attack rather than the next one. So, Arab males wielding box cutters pulled off 9-11 and we immediately ban nail files and the like. Richard Reid tries to use a shoe bomb to blow up a plane and now we all have to take off our shoes during screening. Gee, I guess it never occured to the terrorists that maybe a non-Arab carrying explosives in another article of clothing might get through security....or would it? Just ask the underwear bomber, a black Nigerian. I'm still expecting TSA to require all air passengers to travel commando to counter that one. :doh:

IMHO Israel does it right. Since pretty much everyone there is middle eastern looking, they profile based not as much on appearance and names, but on proven screening tactics based on documented behaviors and physiological "tells". Of course the problem with trying that here is that TSA staff nor the private rent a cops that preceded them for that matter, have been trained to anywhere near the level of Israeli airport security. Moreover, given what we pay them, it probably isn't going to happen in the future either.

What people are bringing bombs on planes?

Go ahead, you can say it.

I don't think any of them have been nuns or 4 year olds
Good point....except for one small fly in the ointment. Please pick out the Muslim from the photos I've attached. It's not a rhetorical question either. I want you and anyone else to actually give it the old college try. I'll then post the "answers" sometime tomorrow. It should be an interesting exercise.
 

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...and the second set.
 

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Good point....except for one small fly in the ointment. Please pick out the Muslim from the photos I've attached. It's not a rhetorical question either. I want you and anyone else to actually give it the old college try. I'll then post the "answers" sometime tomorrow. It should be an interesting exercise.

The two bearded gents get a pass, just because it's known that terorrists shave up before they go see allah

The one guys gets a cavity search just for the way he's dressed

The woman is sorta hot, so she gets this treatment

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The TSA says kids under 12 are supposed to get out of the pat downs. But the one kid on the right kinda looks fishy, so cavity search for her too

Score?
 
I would say I fly much more than average, around twice a month last year, and around once a month this year (some months twice, I will be flying 3 times in January). I have never once seen anyone even complain about these machines, or even opt out. The vast majority of people have absolutely zero problems with them...so I don't see an issue.

Its ironic - Sarge complains that we don't just single out the minority when screening at airports, because a different minority has a problem with these scanners.
 
The two bearded gents get a pass, just because it's known that terorrists shave up before they go see allah

The one guys gets a cavity search just for the way he's dressed

The woman is sorta hot, so she gets this treatment

Score?
Gladly. However you weren't terribly specific. There were more than two bearded guys so I'm not sure which ones you meant.

Oh, and regarding the pic you posted, I have used a similar one in several presentations. I looked and looked but couldn't find it. In the one I've used, there's an announcement over the PA system that one of the TSA guys wants to ask her on a date. Funny stuffs. :)
 
Upper left. Upper middle get the pass. Bottom left gets the full treatment
 

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