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DIA Pat-Downs and Body Scans (Intrusive/invasive photos)
The Denver Post ^ | November 18, 2010 | Craig F. Walker

Posted on 11/18/2010 1:53:40 PM PST by CedarDave

As passengers traveled through Denver International Airport on Wednesday in advance of the Thanksgiving rush, some invoked their constitutional right against unreasonable search, while others were more forgiving of efforts to keep travel safe.

Jeffrey "Gator" Henry of Charlotte, N.C., moved through security in skimpy gym shorts and a sleeveless tank top as part of his plan to reject screening by advanced imaging machines — the devices that use either millimeter-wave or backscatter X-ray technology — and to request a pat-down instead.

"It's an invasion of privacy," said Henry, a television and film producer, as he waited at DIA's A concourse checkpoint.

Henry said he's joined the nascent movement that is asking travelers to voluntarily opt out of screening by the full-body scanners in favor of more time-consuming pat-downs. Some have designated the day before Thanksgiving as National Opt-Out Day.

"I dressed this way so there is nothing to pat down," he said of the more intensive TSA hand searches.

(Excerpt) Read more at photos.denverpost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: bodyscans; patdowns; tsa; tsapervs; tsascanners
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To: CedarDave

These pat-downs are not gonna fly (so to speak); too much brouhaha going on.


2 posted on 11/18/2010 1:56:29 PM PST by La Enchiladita (Yes, I'm a neocon. What of it?)
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To: CedarDave

Denver airport is infested with Somalis. They work everywhere at DIA.


3 posted on 11/18/2010 2:01:14 PM PST by Frantzie (Imam Ob*m* & Democrats support the VICTORY MOSQUE & TV supports Imam)
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To: CedarDave
That TSA guy in the first picture could have gone through life in well-deserved anonymity. Instead he chose to be a TSA agent and didn't have enough integrity to refuse to participate in this.

Sooo, his 15 minutes of fame, and lasting legacy is a photo of him grabbing another man's scrotum.

‘Hey kids, this is what grandpa did for a living. Someday you could do this.’

4 posted on 11/18/2010 2:03:03 PM PST by Never on my watch (Touch my junk and I call the cops!)
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To: CedarDave
TSA - Total Sexual Assault. Their new motto: “You don't get on, Until we get off.”
6 posted on 11/18/2010 2:03:54 PM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
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To: CedarDave

Out of all the pictures I saw one passenger and one TSA agent smiling. Everyone else, in all the other pictures, looked completely miserable.


7 posted on 11/18/2010 2:04:22 PM PST by suthener
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To: mpackard

um....excuse my language


8 posted on 11/18/2010 2:04:52 PM PST by mpackard (Read my Lip-Stick)
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To: Never on my watch

Yeah.... If that guy ever laid a hand on my kid, I would relieve him of his existance.


9 posted on 11/18/2010 2:04:58 PM PST by TexasPatriot1 ("Tyranny is defined as that which legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry" Jefferson)
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To: La Enchiladita

I heard a story about a bachelor party group intending to wear kilts and no underwear. Their plan was to forewarn the screener that they had previous problems with std’s but didn’t think that they were currently contagious.


10 posted on 11/18/2010 2:05:12 PM PST by ScoopAmma (We are led by the Resident -in Chief; aka part-time member of Webelo Troop 44)
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To: La Enchiladita

Let’s look on the bright side.

Can you imagine any self-deluded Muzzie allowing this kind of personal violation. No grope, no fly.

Also noticed that “Big Sis” has yet to carve out exceptions for specific religious.


11 posted on 11/18/2010 2:06:57 PM PST by plangent
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To: CedarDave

Here’s a video of them molesting an old man, taken by a guy on TickerForum:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tu1Hjd19gk&feature=player_embedded


12 posted on 11/18/2010 2:08:17 PM PST by perfect_rovian_storm (The worst is behind us. Unfortunately it is really well endowed.)
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To: mpackard
I'll give you a pass on the language considering I am in empathy with your outrage. Ironically, those were the exact same two words the molested guy screamed out at the moment of the photo.
13 posted on 11/18/2010 2:08:47 PM PST by Never on my watch (Touch my junk and I call the cops!)
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To: CedarDave

This is now happening at our courthouses also.


14 posted on 11/18/2010 2:14:40 PM PST by CodeToad (Islam needs to be banned in the US and treated as a criminal enterprise.)
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To: perfect_rovian_storm

That just made me angry. WTF, this guy is going to bring something on the plane?


15 posted on 11/18/2010 2:15:15 PM PST by rlmorel (TSA's new motto: "You don't get on, Until we get off.")
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To: CedarDave

The sad thing both of those two losers would probably say they “feel safer” having been sexually molested.


16 posted on 11/18/2010 2:16:11 PM PST by CodeToad (Islam needs to be banned in the US and treated as a criminal enterprise.)
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To: mpackard

Yeah, well it sounds like you haven’t seen the YouTube video of the three-year-old screaming her head off while she’s being groped. Even more sickening. How can any parent plan to travel by air with a child while this Gestapo stuff is going on?


17 posted on 11/18/2010 2:16:54 PM PST by Zarro (Hands off Our Junk!)
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To: Zarro

You know...I keep hearing “If you dont like it, dont fly”
Well My USN daughter lives in HI. Any suggestion (besides a 7 day cruise) how I should get there to see her?
Also, one of the wonderful parts of living in America with freedom is Freedom of movement, it’s simply one more way to chip away at our liberty.


18 posted on 11/18/2010 2:20:05 PM PST by mpackard (Read my Lip-Stick)
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To: CedarDave

What are they going to do with women wearing sanitary napkins? You could hide a lot of explosives in one of those.
I believe this entire operation is nothing more than an excuse for ossama bin obama to eventually nationalize the airlines.


19 posted on 11/18/2010 2:22:51 PM PST by taillightchaser
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To: mpackard
You know...I keep hearing “If you don't like it, don't fly”

What I hear them saying is: "BAAA, BAAAA If you don't like it, BAA, don't fly, BAAA”

20 posted on 11/18/2010 2:23:30 PM PST by Never on my watch (Touch my junk and I call the cops!)
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