The Latest TSA Craziness
Nov. 20th, 2010 12:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shannon_aI don't think there can be any question that the latest crazy TSA regulations regarding x-rays and aggressive groping have crossed the line (I mean, that is, if you didn't think they crossed the line when they started making us taking our shoes off for no particular reason years ago). When we enter an airport, we now leave the supposedly free United States of America and enter a police state.
The pilots were giving the American public a lot of support on trying to turn back these fascist policies ... and then they got paid off with a no-pilot-groping policy. Which decreases the chances of anything happening with the rapid erosion of air rights for everyone else.
This is my favorite note on the issue:
(From SFGate.)
Great job, guys. And, this being the TSA, they haven't actually decreased our chances of dying any, as they're reacting to the last terrorism threat, last Christmas. So it's like we now have 2x the chances of getting blown up: once by terrorists, and once by the x-ray machines.
Great post from EFF on how to report complaints with the fucked-up new system. Currently the TSA is claiming that their complaints haven't increased since the x-ray machines went into use. I'll have to get that bookmarked on my iPad, so I can complain after getting felt up come my next trip to Hawaii.
PS: Until writing this, I hadn't noticed how the TSA and Chertoff have managed an Orwellian switch of language, calling these x-ray machines full-body scanners, to make them seem less ... carcinogenic.
The pilots were giving the American public a lot of support on trying to turn back these fascist policies ... and then they got paid off with a no-pilot-groping policy. Which decreases the chances of anything happening with the rapid erosion of air rights for everyone else.
This is my favorite note on the issue:
"Rez [an ASU physics professor] agrees the odds of getting cancer from the scanners may be low. But he calculates it's about the same as the chance of being on a plane blown up by terrorists."
(From SFGate.)
Great job, guys. And, this being the TSA, they haven't actually decreased our chances of dying any, as they're reacting to the last terrorism threat, last Christmas. So it's like we now have 2x the chances of getting blown up: once by terrorists, and once by the x-ray machines.
Great post from EFF on how to report complaints with the fucked-up new system. Currently the TSA is claiming that their complaints haven't increased since the x-ray machines went into use. I'll have to get that bookmarked on my iPad, so I can complain after getting felt up come my next trip to Hawaii.
PS: Until writing this, I hadn't noticed how the TSA and Chertoff have managed an Orwellian switch of language, calling these x-ray machines full-body scanners, to make them seem less ... carcinogenic.