Posted on 11/19/2010 8:17:22 PM PST by markomalley
Ah, the airport, where modern folk heroes are made. The airport, where that inspired flight attendant did what everyone who's ever been in the spam-in-a-can crush of a flying aluminum tube – where we collectively pretend that a clutch of peanuts is a meal and a seat cushion is a "flotation device" – has always dreamed of doing: pull the lever, blow the door, explode the chute, grab a beer, slide to the tarmac and walk through the gates to the sanity that lies beyond. Not since Rick and Louis disappeared into the Casablanca fog headed for the Free French garrison in Brazzaville has a stroll on the tarmac thrilled so many.
Who cares that the crazed steward got arrested, pleaded guilty to sundry charges, and probably was a rude, unpleasant SOB to begin with? Bonnie and Clyde were psychopaths, yet what child of the '60s did not fall in love with Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty?
(snip)
The junk man's revolt marks the point at which a docile public declares that it will tolerate only so much idiocy. Metal detector? Back-of-the-hand pat? OK. We will swallow hard and pretend airline attackers are randomly distributed in the population.
But now you insist on a full-body scan, a fairly accurate representation of my naked image to be viewed by a total stranger? Or alternatively, the full-body pat-down, which, as the junk man correctly noted, would be sexual assault if performed by anyone else?
This time you have gone too far, Big Bro'. The sleeping giant awakes. Take my shoes, remove my belt, waste my time and try my patience. But don't touch my junk.
(Excerpt) Read more at ocregister.com ...
Ann Coulter has suggested that air travelers make “sex noises” while they are being intimately frisked.
I wonder what would happen if somebody started a “Sex Offenders Registry” website and posted the names and pictures of any “junk touchers” that travelers care to submit, along with a description of the incident that caused them to collect the TSA agent’s information and take their picture ?
It's pretty much already been done...
http://cubachi.com/2010/11/14/german-flesh-mob-strips-in-airport-to-protest-of-tsa-body-scanners/
“Maybe if Krauthammer had spent as much time bashing Coons as he did bashing Christine O’Donnell I might be more gung-ho about his article.
He left a sour taste in my mouth, and he lost any conservative say-so in my eyes.”
Yeah, him and Fatso (not Brodeur, to you hockey fans). Two reasons why we REALLY don’t have a Senate majority today.
LOL! Here's another idea....
For folks not familiar with the movie, stick it out 'til the end of the clip :)
You omit one salient fact...... he was right
TSA guy going the other way on the escalator has that “Gimme some o’ dat!” look about him.....
There have been crotch and snuke bombs. I liked his line about how we’ve put up, up to now, with the fiction that a clutch of peanuts is a meal, a seat cushion is a ‘flotation device’, and attackers are randomly distributed throughout the population. (loose paraphrase)
I like the idea of a trusted traveler program, until I realize that the same people managing this mess would be managing THAT mess. In other words, I don’t think they are competent enought to handle it. The only solution, really, would be to dissolve the TSA, and preferably the DHS, and rebuild it from the ground up.
That's a GREAT idea.
I intend to show up in boxers... but only after having stopped in the restroom to make myself a little bit happier before heading out for inspection. Then I’ll tell the inspectors that it’s against my religion to be inspected by anyone *not* of the opposite sex.
Hopefully, the female inspector will then fondle me enough to finish the job. If not, I’ll tell ‘em they missed a spot.
(Maybe I’ll do all that, but have my boxers around my ankles in the inspection line. That’ll clearly show my determination to cooperate fully, as I won’t be hiding anything.)
:-P
Point is, the TSA is using this to control the American people through intimidation, fear, and humilation. If we turn the tables and intimidate the TSA, show no fear of the TSA, and humilate the TSA... the TSA loses.
I think it would be better if everyone just yelled “OUCH” every time the TSA touched their junk. If everyone did this loud for all to hear it could be a resistant type protest. What are they going to do, arrest people for yelling “OUCH”?
No, he wasn't. What he did was the equivalent of predicting that someone would fall down the stairs, moments before pushing that person down the stairs.
I have a singer friend who could do a credible imitation of Madeline Khan's voice. I'll mention this to her, she might want to try it.
Probably. Loyal servants of the glorious state don't yell "OUCH," they say "Thank you master, will you please fondle me again?"
Gargle with some mouthwash and move on...........
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.