Pop quiz:
1. At the airport, would you rather be …
(a) felt up by a TSA agent?
Or …
(b) have your naked self be put on view via an airport scanner?
2. Do you think these types of security measures are:
(a) over the top
(b) too lax
(c) about right
3. If you were a TSA agent, would you:
(a) not even notice the x-rayed privates of air passengers?
(b) have to struggle not to laugh at under- or over-sized body parts?
(c) secretly steal scanner images and put them up on the Internet?
4. With these issues and questions in mind, will you:
(a) cut back on your air travel in the future. Who needs the embarrassment?
(b) work out more often. Time to get in shape – everyone’s gonna see me nude!
(c) invest heavily in companies that manufacture specially-made fake large genitalia designed to show up on airport scanners. There’s money to be made!
Discuss.
“Does this invasion of privacy make my ass look big?”
I’m much more concerned about the radiation than I am about privacy invasion. That, and being treated like a criminal for no particular reason.
http://www.opposingviews.com/i/john-tyner-refuses-tsa-search-don-t-touch-my-junk
A-and, http://gizmodo.com/5690749/
You can’t really apply logic or rights to airport security. It’s its own world through which we briefly pass and can only hope we come out the other side. Like the universe of Mark Trail.
A-and, http://www.boingboing.net/2010/11/11/tsas-new-book-for-ki.html
Just got screened by one today…very strange. I know they say the person looking is offsite, but you can’t help but feel it’s the guy who tells you when you can move.