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Court Approves TSA Body Scans, But Calls For Public Comment

Posted by Soulskill on from the in-the-case-of-the-people-vs-the-peepers dept.

OverTheGeicoE writes "The District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals has finally issued a ruling (PDF) on EPIC v. DHS, a lawsuit seeking suspension of the use of body scanners for primary screening pending an independent review that would include a public comment period. According to the summary, the court 'grant[s] the petition for review' but 'due to the obvious need for the TSA to continue its airport security operations without interruption, we remand the rule to the TSA but do not vacate it.' In short, the TSA is required to open up their policy for public comment, but they can continue to use the scanners in the meantime and most likely afterward. This doesn't sound like much of a victory for EPIC or the U.S. public."

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  1. Re:we could take back control... by pla · · Score: 5, Interesting

    These unwelcome intrusions continue because we allow them. If we the people as a group, boycotted air travel, tgis DHS BS would go away.

    Agreed. However, you need to understand that the vast majority of air travel consists of business travelers with close to zero discretion about how to get to their destination, rather than people flying because they choose to do so.

    You want to make the TSA cut this shit out? We have exactly one option that might work: Public shunning.

    Run a business? Refuse to serve them.
    Know any personally? Tell them you can't hang out anymore until they take a respectable job such as prostitution or dealing drugs.
    Encounter one casually on the street? Stop just short of assault in badgering them.
    Have to actually fly? Hand every one of them that speaks to you the business card of a local headhunter.

    Make it impossible for these people to have a life, and no one will take the job at any price. And maybe, just maybe, instead of instituting some sort of "TSA draft", the asshats in DC will get the message.


    They want "public commentary" on their scanners"? How about "fuck off and die, you goose-stepping pieces of shit, We The People hope your pornoscanners give you all a slow and painful cancer"? That work for ya, Janet? Get the idea yet?


    / And for the apologists - You know who else "was just doing their jobs"?