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Man Protests TSA With Nudity
New submitter blindbat writes "John E. Brennon 'said he was fed up with being harassed by airport security stripped to his birthday suit while in an airport screening lane Tuesday evening and was arrested.'"
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now every time he applies for a job he will come up on the sex offender search
This man is a hero.
The TSA agents are acting as directed.
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Telemarketers are just doing their job. Tell them up-front "Please remove me from your list." and let them get on with it. This is another instance of "shoot the messenger."
The people who get paid minimum wage to hand out flyers are also just doing their job. What happens when they go back to their boss and say "Some guy grabbed all my flyers and destroyed them." Think they're going to keep that job they desperately need?
As for the TSA: Right on. That is the absolute correct response. Make them uncomfortable giving pat-downs, and maybe they'll put the pressure on the higher-ups.
The TSA agents are uneducated goons with too much power. Petty actors in the security theater propped up by bad legislation and a badly run agency by the TSA
Fuck 'em.
Fire every single one of them. We'll be safer, the skies will be safer, and we'll put those tax dollars to something that can actually save lives.
You know, if one person, just one person does it they may think he's really sick and they won't take him. And if two people, two people do it, in harmony, they may think they're both faggots and they won't take either of them. And three people do it, three, can you imagine, three people walking in singing a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out. They may think it's an
organization. And can you, can you imagine fifty people a day, I said fifty people a day walking in singing a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out. And friends they may thinks it's a movement.
And that's what it is, the Alice's Restaurant Anti-Massacre Movement, and all you got to do to join is sing it the next time it come's around on the guitar.
With feeling.
Yeah, when I was in the US (in my country telemarketing is illegal), I made it a point to try to get telemarketers to cry on the phone. I went along with something like: "You should have listened to your mother when she told you to study and you wouldn't be pissing off people for 4$ an hour now."
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Telemarketers are people struggling to find jobs, and telemarketing is bottom-rung job that pays when all other options don't pan out...
TSA agents are doing their job. Being a dick to them and making their life suck (even more) just makes it worse for everyone.
Bullshit comparison:
Telemarketers sit in call centers and try to sell you stuff; TSA agents finger-fuck your 6-year-old child in front of your face, then expect you to line up for your turn.
There is a fucking universe of difference between the two.
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Because their parents did it to them, and most people believe that morals are externally dictated instead of internally decided. It's not their fault; coming to that conclusion on your own is an exceptional thing. Parents should be telling their children at some point that deciding what's right and wrong is part of being an adult, but most parents' parents probably never told them that either.
That doesn't make the whole thing any more right, but it's explainable.
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Telemarketers are just doing their job. Tell them up-front "Please remove me from your list." and let them get on with it
No. The longer a telemarketer spends on the phone with someone, the fewer people he can harass. The fewer people he harasses, the less profitable the business model is. The less profitable the business model is, the less likely I will have to deal with telemarketers in the future.
Don't be mad at me. Be mad at the people who run the economy for not providing honest work.
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why not protest this way; boycott air travel
I'm boycotting air travel. Perhaps you've read about me online on seen me on the news.
I am not a crackpot.
There job is not to annoy you. Their job happens to annoy you.
What kind of self centered prick doesn't realize that different things annoy different people?
Well, at leas on your death bed you can thinking of all that time you told off a person barely eeking a living doing a crap job for less then min. wage.
Well done.
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You guys aren't going to have this fixed by the time I fly into the States in July, are you?
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
And what lame apologist excuse will you use when the TSA is groping people at bus terminals, train stations, cruise ship terminals, and even at random stops along the nation's highways?
"If you don't like the TSA, never leave your house! That's what the internet is for!" Is that what you'll say?
If telephones are outlawed, then only outlaws will have telephones.
Eichmann's orders were plainly unlawful.
They were plainly unethical, but were they plainly unlawful? They were judged to be unlawful by the victors of the war in a trial conducted by the victors under the laws imposed by the victors. Were they unlawful under the laws he was subject to at the time he did them? I don't know, I'm asking. And before you jump to answer, try to separate the "horrific" and "unethical" from the "legal" question.
You say the TSA is operating under orders that are currently lawful. (Ethical is another question.) What happens tomorrow if a couple of new SCOTUS appointees decide the laws being carried out aren't valid? The laws change. Can you prosecute TSA agents for their acts, as Eichmann was for his? There's a tiny problem doing so -- the US Constitution prohibits ex-post-facto laws. You can't prosecute someone for doing something yesterday that wasn't illegal until today.
The two scenarios are not equivalent.
Two things don't have to be equivalent for there to be useful comparisons between them. Everyone, including myself, has at times used the "only following orders" example from WWII, but maybe it is useful to look at what exactly is happening.