I find myslef in complete agreement with the Express Jet pilot who refused to be frisked

[Stinky The Clown]

Pilot tells TSA: 'No Naked Photos'

MEMPHIS 10/19/2010) -- The pilot who refused to go through the new full body scan at Memphis International Airport is speaking out.

Michael Roberts says he refused to go through, not because he's a pilot, but instead because he believes nobody should have to be subjected to "a virtual strip search."

Roberts was traveling Friday from his hometown of Memphis to Houston, where he's based as a pilot for ExpressJet Airlines. He says a TSA agent asked him to take off his shoes and enter the new machine. He told the agent he wasn't willing. "I'm not going to do it," he says. "Not once am I going to show them my naked body."

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More, including video, at this link: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/wreg-pilot-protest,0,576496.story

I am sick and tired of the creeping loss of privacy to which we are subjected. I find this guy's a refreshing story. Some one standing up to the brainless system. He's not going to be another 'go-along' sheep like so many of use, acquiescent in our obeisance to the State.

[phantom power]

1. Seems like that is what it will take.

They aren't going to stop out of the goodness of their hearts.

Some days I think the French have the right idea. Maybe it is time to turn over a few cars and light them on fire.

[no limit]

2. I use to love expressjet, too bad they don't fly here anymore.

[phantom power]

3. And in the "voting with their feet" category, I submit to you this:

Amtrak chugs along nicely to record ridership

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=115&topic_id=262300&mesg_id=262300

[ejpoeta]

11. i have no intention of going on a plane any time soon. my husband has

had to when he goes to training for work since they moved their home office to georgia and they won't let him drive that far. the only time i was ever on a plane was in 1989 from AZ to wny for a funeral and back to AZ.

[HopeHoops]

4. Hey, enjoy it while you can. Next year it will be anal cavity searches.

At the rate things are going, you might have to submit to those just to enter a 7-11.

[Initech]

5. I was subjected to one of those in Boston last week. It was unnerving to say the least.

[Justitia]

7. My husband was too, also at Logan. I watched & was flabbergasted. -eom

[Stinky The Clown]

13. I've been choosing to go through them

The first time for me was in Atlanta. You could volunteer to go through since they weren't officially in use yet.

Now, when I step in one of them, I make a big animated deal out of "adjusting" myself. I don't say a word, and smile broadly. I hope I affect everyone's "ick" reflex.

[Project Grudge]

6. It's a loss of privacy that's not even worth it.

'But that's OK, since said underwear bomber has prompted governments around the world to install full-body scanners in their airports. You know, the ones that let the operator see your genitals. In late 2009 the TSA ordered $165 million worth of full body scanners, and countries like Canada have followed suit. But it's worth it, to stop terrorists like Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab! Only, they wouldn't have stopped him. Let's quote Rafi Sela, former chief security officer for the Israel Airport Authority:

"I don't know why everybody is running to buy these expensive and useless machines. I can overcome the body scanners with enough explosives to bring down a Boeing 747,"'

Read more: http://www.cracked.com/article_18775_5-popular-safety-measures-that-dont-make-you-any-safer.html#ixzz12v674eQu

[littlewolf]

12. indeed

right after they started with TSA and all the searches and scans ... the Israel's said
your not going to stop terrorist ... your going to piss off customers ...

[ipaint]

8. Follow the money. Digital strip searches aren't about safety.

Former DHS secretary Michael Chertoff- his company Chertoff Security- their client Rapiscan Systems.

"Chertoff’s advocacy for the technology dates back to his time in the Bush administration. In 2005, Homeland Security ordered the government’s first batch of the scanners—five from California-based Rapiscan Systems.

Today, 40 body scanners are in use at 19 U.S. airports. The number is expected to skyrocket at least in part because of the Christmas Day incident. The Transportation Security Administration this week said it will order 300 more machines.

In the summer, TSA purchased 150 machines from Rapiscan with $25 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds."

http://motherjones.com/mojo/2010/01/airport-scanner-scam

We are paying these assholes with our tax dollars to subject us to this, making them rich. How insane is that.

[Stinky The Clown]

9. "How insane is that."

:thumbsup:

[ejpoeta]

10. my husband had to go through that machine at the airport last night. he went in

to fix a machine for his job and had to go through that thing. then he put his hand in his pocket or something and they frisked him too. he wasn't even going on a plane just going in to fix a machine. i told him that while they are pretending to protect us the terrorists are still getting on the planes with their bombs. it's baloney.

[Greyhound]

14. K&R. Obedience and conformity have become the paramount American 'values'.

Independence, liberty, equality?

Meh, who cares?
:shrug:

[indepat]

15. I shan't choose to play their silly little nonsensical games by placing a life-time ban on flying

unless witnessing a return to some semblance of reason. ;)