- Joined
- Sep 24, 2009
- Messages
- 1,087
- Reaction score
- 477
I have clearly decided that I will not be traveling to America anytime soon. That also means I won't be spending money on airline tickets and other things I would normally do for a trip to America. (Rental Car, Shopping, Food, etc.)
The TSA has gone too far with their latest molest-a-thon starting with the AIT scanners, being able to see clear details of any man, woman or child. As most of you are aware, if decide to skip the scanner and go for the perverted feel-up, you will get ostracized by the TSA workers because you did not want to submit to the body scan.
Noticed, I said 'submit'? You have a choice to 'submit' yourself to harmful radiation and also expose yourself unwillingly to some stranger in some monitoring room. Regardless if he knows you are or not, it totally disgusts me that I'm freely being stripped so that I may exercise my RIGHT to fly on a commercial aircraft.
It is a RIGHT after all! I do not think anyone young or old should have to endure the radiation or the perverted feel-up that certainly makes you feel like a terrorist if you didn't already feel like one before making it that far.
What is even worse, this molestation of air travelers will breach the walls of the U.S. and find it's way across the ocean to neighboring countries that offer flights to the U.S. I say we reject all flights to and from the U.S. to make a point to the American government that not everyone is a terrorist and those that are, will find a way to do what they wish while the rest of us are still losing our rights and privacy for the 'common' good.
If people begin to boycott air travel as a whole, the Airlines would be forced to put additional pressure on the government to change the way it does things. As someone else wrote, somewhere, the current system is 'terrorist centric' not 'air traveler centric'. Every single living soul is absolutely guilty until you radiate yourself or allow the legalized version of a sexual assault.
The people who will rebut with common sayings such as "If you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about!!" - That's not the point! YOU may be okay with giving up basic rights and expectation of some privacy, but I would believe that most of the air traveling public would disagree with you. Anyone that would agree with that statement, is just one of those people standing behind you in along security queue who just wants to get through the line as fast as possible and each time someone 'opts-out', it causes another delay.
Congratulations! You guys have let the terrorists win! We're losing our own basic freedoms because some religious extremists in some cave/tent in the middle-east decided that they did not like how live our lives in the western world. They don't want us to have these freedoms and they are slowly having them eroded, successfully, by our own governments.
Don't forget to put your tinfoil hat on. I'm sure that all of the INFOSEC monitors don't like what I'm posting. (oh, and don't give me sass over the card INFOSEC, it's a generic term.)
I long for the day that we can return to being peaceful with freedoms we used to enjoy some 10-15 years ago. Things really started to go into the crapper in the late 1990's. Things went even further south after 9/11...
Glad I didn't plan on going to America for Christmas shopping. I'll keep all of my spending in Japan.
~K~
The TSA has gone too far with their latest molest-a-thon starting with the AIT scanners, being able to see clear details of any man, woman or child. As most of you are aware, if decide to skip the scanner and go for the perverted feel-up, you will get ostracized by the TSA workers because you did not want to submit to the body scan.
Noticed, I said 'submit'? You have a choice to 'submit' yourself to harmful radiation and also expose yourself unwillingly to some stranger in some monitoring room. Regardless if he knows you are or not, it totally disgusts me that I'm freely being stripped so that I may exercise my RIGHT to fly on a commercial aircraft.
It is a RIGHT after all! I do not think anyone young or old should have to endure the radiation or the perverted feel-up that certainly makes you feel like a terrorist if you didn't already feel like one before making it that far.
What is even worse, this molestation of air travelers will breach the walls of the U.S. and find it's way across the ocean to neighboring countries that offer flights to the U.S. I say we reject all flights to and from the U.S. to make a point to the American government that not everyone is a terrorist and those that are, will find a way to do what they wish while the rest of us are still losing our rights and privacy for the 'common' good.
If people begin to boycott air travel as a whole, the Airlines would be forced to put additional pressure on the government to change the way it does things. As someone else wrote, somewhere, the current system is 'terrorist centric' not 'air traveler centric'. Every single living soul is absolutely guilty until you radiate yourself or allow the legalized version of a sexual assault.
The people who will rebut with common sayings such as "If you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about!!" - That's not the point! YOU may be okay with giving up basic rights and expectation of some privacy, but I would believe that most of the air traveling public would disagree with you. Anyone that would agree with that statement, is just one of those people standing behind you in along security queue who just wants to get through the line as fast as possible and each time someone 'opts-out', it causes another delay.
Congratulations! You guys have let the terrorists win! We're losing our own basic freedoms because some religious extremists in some cave/tent in the middle-east decided that they did not like how live our lives in the western world. They don't want us to have these freedoms and they are slowly having them eroded, successfully, by our own governments.
Don't forget to put your tinfoil hat on. I'm sure that all of the INFOSEC monitors don't like what I'm posting. (oh, and don't give me sass over the card INFOSEC, it's a generic term.)
I long for the day that we can return to being peaceful with freedoms we used to enjoy some 10-15 years ago. Things really started to go into the crapper in the late 1990's. Things went even further south after 9/11...
Glad I didn't plan on going to America for Christmas shopping. I'll keep all of my spending in Japan.
~K~
