TSA

Here’s another round-up of some articles about the TSA’s policy, which might be summed up as “let us play with our X-ray glasses or we will feel you up.” David Harsanyi says that there’s been a switcheroo in the way that lefties and conservatives approach civil liberties. Of lefties, he says, “Not so long ago, the left positioned itself as the defender of innocents against […]

Here’s another collection on the choice between government in your gonads and taking the position of a criminal surrendering to the police. Roger Cohen writes, “Give a bureaucrat a big stick and a big budget, allow said bureaucrat to trade in the limitless currency of human anxiety, and the masses will soon be intimidated by the Department of Fear.” He adds, “When a government has a […]

Here’s a round-up of some news I found today on the TSA’s peekaboo-or-grope regime. One doctor says that the risk of radiation from the new scanners is not significant. Yet as Jane Orient, MD point out, there’s a certain irony: “if you had a deadly disease, and the scanner were an FDA-regulated device that might save your life, your doctor wouldn’t be allowed to use it, […]

Welcome to another edition of The Daily Grope, a collection of items about security theater that have come my way. First, Canada has problems with airport security, too. This story deals with whether women who wear an Islamic veil should be asked to show their faces to security personnel. Gene Healy says we’ve been bitten by hysteria; “when every bungled attack — no matter how inept […]

One man writes, “TSA is trying to use its police powers to make examples out of anyone who has the temerity to protest the body scanners.” What does TSA stand for? One possibility is totally subjugating Americans. Is the White House hoping that disgust with the get-naked-or-grope regime will prop up demand for more rail projects? A San Diego man (no, not the one you’ve heard about) strips […]

Here’s your daily grope of news about the TSA. First up, TSA agents puncture a cancer survivors’s urostomy bag, soiling him in urine, during a TSA screening. He later told the press, “every time I tried to tell them about my medical condition, they said they didn’t need to know about that.” Next up, some videos. First, a compilation of ham-handed security theater, called “The TSA […]

It’s a slow day at The daily Grope, but here’s what I’ve come across lately. One TSA screener, seeing a young woman coming through the security area, says to another: “heads up, got a cutie for you.” A woman Missouri speaks of her recent experience with the TSa: “Under any other circumstance, if a person touched me like that without my permission, it would be considered criminal […]

Here’s your daily serving of news on TSA groping and gawking: We won’t fly offers a primer on the topic. A defense of profiling. The article TSA pats down a screaming toddler makes me think the terrorists have already won. The campaign to “make air travel safe” will result in more travel fatalities. Woman alleges sexual assault by TSA workers. A man writes about being groped, saying “Remember […]

More news on the federal government in your pants. A video from CNN. Another video, “the TSA is out of control.” From Facebook, National opt-out of porno-scanner day Where there’s an opportunity, there’s an entrepreneur: Flying pasties. The Orlando Airport is kicking out the TSA. Sort of–the TSA still sets the rules. ReasonTV on how we all now fly on “Con Air.” A note from a friend: “Just praying […]

A U.S. Army sergeant heading back to Afghanistan writes about the new TSA groping protocol. Afghan citizens get more respectful treatment from the U.S. Army than U.S. citizens get from the TSA. The title of the article in which is comments appear: Body searching children: No for the US Army, Yes for the TSA.” He adds, “it seems as if the bureaucracy has become so obsessed […]