reply to post by Death_Kron
The police do not have the right to strip search an individual without due process of law. The body scans are, essentially a virtual strip search.
Furthermore, comparing a police frisking to the TSA process, which includes genital fondling/manipulation supposedly to ensure someone isn't wearing
exploding underpants (exploding underpants! Jesus Christ what kind of bizarre cartoonish world have we devolved into?!?!?) , is a huge stretch.
Until you are booked (ie: DUE PROCESS), the police are essentially doing a quick check to ensure you don't have a weapon or stash of drugs which can
be quickly gotten to.
Dude, I was with you on this 8 years ago. When it was simply longer, slower lines at the airport, "you can't take container of liquid on board",
and the TSA has to be able to unlock your bags it was all simple inconvenience and I thought people should suck it up and take one for the team. Now
we've pole vaulted across that line and are into physically intrusive, violations of the right to privacy surrounding your own body. An agency has
been created which believes it is above the Bill of Rights and exempt from expecations of due process. That is what is sick here.
I can choose my doctor. That argument is ridiculous. Why not go all the way and say "Most people have no problem being naked and felt up by their
lover, so what's the difference?" The difference is, you have no choice here. If you intend to fly (remember when wanting to fly didn't
automatically make you a criminal suspect in the government's eyes? Those were the days, huh!), then you are subjected to either the Mad-Eye Moody
x-ray "I can see your dingle" treatment or you're groped. In the real world we call that sexual assault... in National Safety Land it's called
being a good little citizen and never questioning the Overlords. In my world I call it unacceptable and outrageous.
