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Your justifications are misguided or just plan wrong for every reason of TSA existence and performance. You assume they are necessary. You assume they do a good
by headShrinker 13y ago
Your justifications are misguided or just plan wrong for every reason of TSA existence and performance. You assume they are necessary. You assume they do a good job protecting us. You assume they are professional. You assume body imaging and body searches are not a bad deal. There is no evidence to prove this, and there is plenty of evidence to prove the opposite.
> but honestly, grow a pair and walk through the damn thing.
It takes pair to not walk through. You seem to be confused about that.
Furthermore, I will never walk through your full body scanner for these reasons:
1) They have not been studied and properly tested medically over a mid to long time period. We have the word of the company who created them, telling us they are “safe”. You know what else was “safe” said the manufacture? Asbestos, DDT, mercury, X-rays, etc. Millimeter scanners are shooting high energy particles a the body’s dermis. High energy causes DNA replication issues.
2) These machines are medical imaging devices being implemented by high school educated people.
3) These machines can be fooled. Pancake devices slip through undetected.
4) These machines DO NOT detect PETN. I will say that again, they do not detect plastic explosives! This makes them useless and trivial.
5) We have the right to travel, unsearched, unless there is just cause. Times have changed from when the Bill Of Rights was written, thus the advent of metal detectors and bomb sniffing K9s. When we talk about “the slippery slope” these machines are about as far as you get before for things get out of control, ei: suspension of meranda-rights, torture, warrent-less wire-taps, militarization of local police, etc.
No, I will not pass through your body scanner, EVER! I will protest their existence forever in the form a polite “Opt Out” and a silent but complete disrespect for the TSA. They institute insulting useless security theater and I am not amused or fooled.
You should educate yourself about all the ways the government is invading your privacy, and where governments go from there. Then grow a pair and start to fight back.
- drstewart 13y agoI opt out of the body scanner every time but I find your mentality towards the TSA somewhat childish to be honest. I find it analogous to people who belittle and scream at fast food workers as if they're beneath them. You are not better than someone because they have a high school education.
- headShrinker 13y agoI never insinuated that I was better than a high school education. I insinuated that someone operating medical imaging equipment should have some credentials in the medical field. I have a distrust and dislike for anyone who compromises my civil rights.
- wohladki 13y agoEverything you said I assume is an assumption on your part. Nowhere have I said that the TSA is perfect, ideal, good, etc. I said that having the TSA is much preferable to having no screening measures whatsoever. Nobody is claiming the TSA is ideal. Take a second to read the following comment - "If TSA is an ineffective means of instituting these safety precautions, then let's propose an alternative solution. Would be much more productive than endlessly harping about how much TSA sucks." My main point is either propose a more effective solution or stop complaining. Because regardless of whatever your beliefs and protests are, complaining about the TSA will do nothing to get rid of them. And that is the main point, which can be generally applied to complaining about anything. Either fix [it] or live with [it]. You add nothing to the world by complaining about [it].