[MarkL]

I am really wondering how I will be able to travel. I have crohns disease and had to get a diverting colostomy a while back... Hopefully it won't be permanent, but I have to carry supplies with me where ever I go, including scissors. And I don't even want to think about having to be searched. I can just imagine some TSA flunky demanding that I remove my appliance during the search. I have no idea what I'm going to do if I have to fly on business (can't drive, my department does occasional day trips down to Dallas from KC). So far my employer has been willing to excuse me from these trips, but that may not be the case in the future.

Mark

[bvw]

It’s an intolerable situation, especially for you and many in a similar situation. In the Beltway fear rules, chicken little type fear — but not of the sky, of the people in the rest of the country and the world. Their response is in ritual, cargo cult type ritual. But in our advanced type of society a cargo cult transforms into a something of a Fritz Lang movie scripted by Franz Kafka with TSA, SS and other uniformed and suited goons lining the runways of life chanted over by metrosexual shamans dressed in custom Italian suits with fancy Italian shoes or asexual she-priests in fugly designer pant suits.

Find a lawyer or and advocacy group — or create or join one — that will sue these bastards every way from Sunday. If the scanner companies pulled down a half or a quarter billion then a good shyster can rape those bastards for tens of millions on your behalf. Turn the favorite leftist tactic of legal back on the police state, and make a profit from it! Destroy them!