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National Opt-Out Day Against Virtual Strip Searches
An anonymous reader writes in about a protest called for the busiest airline travel day of the year. "An activist opposed to the new invasive body scanners in use at airports around the country just designated Wednesday, Nov. 24 as a National Opt-Out Day. He's encouraging airline passengers to decline the TSA's technological strip searches en masse on that day as a protest against the scanners, as well as the new 'enhanced pat-downs' inflicted on refuseniks. 'The goal of National Opt-Out Day is to send a message to our lawmakers that we demand change,' reads the call to action at OptOutDay.com, set up by Brian Sodegren. 'No naked body scanners, no government-approved groping. We have a right to privacy, and buying a plane ticket should not mean that we're guilty until proven innocent.' The US Airline Pilots Association and other pilot groups have urged their members to avoid the scanners and have also condemned the new pat-down policy as humiliating to pilots. They've advised pilots who don't feel comfortable undergoing pat-downs in front of passengers to request they be conducted in a private room. Any pilots who don't feel comfortable after undergoing a pat-down have been encouraged to 'call in sick and remove themselves from the trip.'"
and take off your belt while going through the scanner, my plan is to wear loose pants and go commando.
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This article by Jeffrey Goldberg is both sad, hilarious, and informative. http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2010/10/for-the-first-time-the-tsa-meets-resistance/65390/ "We have to search up your thighs and between your legs until we meet resistance," he explained. "Resistance?" I asked. "Your testicles," he explained. "That's funny," I said, "because 'The Resistance' is the actual name I've given to my testicles."
Also known as "National Get-Added-To-The-No-Fly-List Day"
People are already screaming civil liberties bloody murder. Except this way there will be naked pictures of everyone involved. Yay!
I think I'll start manufacturing a line of undergarments that have metal threads woven into them with sayings like "I do not consent to invasive searches", "TSA scanners are a violation of my 4th Amendment rights", etc.
I wonder what the TSA response would be if they started seeing people wearing underwear, etc. that effectively blocked the scanners from seeing ones "naughty bits" and possibly also included slogans like these?
Hey it doesn't have to be by race, they could also do it by lets say beards, search everyone with a facial hair covering some part of their lower face. or everyone wearing hats, there are more ways to profile for terrorists than just race.
Keeping what safe? A gaggle of meekly surrendering sheep, or a nation of free people?
Jeremy Clarkson could turn this into a new expression. The french being cheese-eating surrender monkeys, the americans are cheeseburger-eating surrender sheep :)
I just want a list. God I love lists!
the car-bomb only set the terrorists on fire who then got beaten up by baggage handlers.
These good samaritans were clearly trying to extinguish the fire, they should be awarded a medal or something.
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