Here’s your daily serving of news on TSA groping and gawking:
We won’t fly offers a primer on the topic.
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 the question once asked of candidate Bill Clinton: ‘Boxers or briefs?’ My TSA examiner knows,” adding, “I walked away feeling invaded, sickened, and humiliated.” He concludes, “Yet 9/11 has made us a frightened and cowed people. In our quest for security, we now trade away the very freedoms that used to define us.”
A flight attendant who is also a cancer survivor was forced to remove a prosthetic breast.
A woman talks (audio file) about TSA workers squeezing and twisting her breasts during the pat-down, before being handcuffed to a chair and surrounded by a dozen law-enforcement personnel.
Dave Barry talks about his blurred groin
American soliders coming home from Afghanistan get some petty treatment from the TSA.
Airline pilots will get to skip the grope-or-scope choice. That makes sense (a murder-minded pilot simply needs to crash the plane), but it also denies the sensible public a powerful ally.
And finally, two videos:
And a discussion between a passenger and a TSA agent.
From The Detroit News: http://apps.detnews.com/apps/blogs/watercooler/index.php?blogid=1103