Why the original TSA poster is most likely a homophobic douchebag and is perpetuating US stupidity
Some random guy decides to post a blog complaining about how someone might get close to his junk and suddenly horror stories about the TSA start pouring in....so typical for a country in which one of the primary news stations, CNN, uses Facebook, Twitter, and iReports to fill up the 24 hour news cycle. Thank God we don't consider the possibility of focusing on stories which enrich our minds and culture.
The guy was whining about being patted down, which is something that happens to anyone who has been in a rough part of town or a high security area. Go to a club downtown, get patted down. Work at intelligence, military, or research facilities... get patted down. Any areas in which there is an obvious security risk will probably result in people being patted down.
Just in case some people missed 9/11 and the kamikazes, a plane happens to be a mobile and potentially explosive device or, in other words, a flying bomb. A plane in the wrong hands can take out any building at any time.
The original TSA blogger(whose name I refuse to waste my time looking for) complained about how he felt he was going to be molested by the TSA. I could understand if the TSA officer happened to enjoy the pat down or if he stuck his hands down the homophobe's pants and played with his balls, but as is he just sounds like another whiny US citizen who thinks that his privacy supersedes the safety of all the other passengers.
The idea that he deserves special treatment begs the question of whether or not US citizens believe that only certain people(the brown ones?) deserve to be scrutinized. I'm sure the terrorists on 9/11 were standing around screaming "Allahu Akbar" with bombs hanging out of their pants.
Some horror stories have popped up involving children, cancer patients, etc. However, if you review the non-mainstream news you will realize that the TSA's actions are potentially justifiable. Children have on multiple occasions been utilized by parents or relatives to try to sneak drugs past security checkpoints in airports and prisons. A young Asian man recently disguised himself as a seemingly innocent and defenseless old man in order to sneak onto a plane. Appearances are deceiving but US citizens are too arrogant to realize that.
Granted some of the TSA agents went too far, however condemning an entire agency because of a few cases out of the millions of people who travel each year is absolutely idiotic. But the story has gained traction because the quality of the US media has degraded to the point that controversy has replaced the former viewpoint of if it bleeds it leads(which replaced if it's culturally significant it lead. Mr. Murrow, how I miss you so).
From a purely sociological standpoint, one can find a multitude of instances during which authority figures have abused their power. Cops have been accused of crimes including: assault, rape, child molestation, murder, theft, etc. Review the Standford prison experiment and you can see how quickly a person can be corrupted by power. The people working for the TSA are just as capable of becoming corrupted as a police officer or a soldier(hopefully everyone noticed the story about the US soldiers killing civilians just for fun).
The solution....fire the abusive TSA officers. Don't condemn an entire agency just become some homophobe couldn't deal with the possibility that a man might graze his clothes covered penis for a few seconds.
Football players slap each other's butts all the time, and some depraved individuals kick or punch each other in the balls from time to time. It's not like some dirty old man or woman is going to latch onto you and ask you if you like it during a TSA pat down. Most of the officers are just there to do a job for a paycheck, like everyone else. Grow up America and please stop acting like paranoid idiots
The guy was whining about being patted down, which is something that happens to anyone who has been in a rough part of town or a high security area. Go to a club downtown, get patted down. Work at intelligence, military, or research facilities... get patted down. Any areas in which there is an obvious security risk will probably result in people being patted down.
Just in case some people missed 9/11 and the kamikazes, a plane happens to be a mobile and potentially explosive device or, in other words, a flying bomb. A plane in the wrong hands can take out any building at any time.
The original TSA blogger(whose name I refuse to waste my time looking for) complained about how he felt he was going to be molested by the TSA. I could understand if the TSA officer happened to enjoy the pat down or if he stuck his hands down the homophobe's pants and played with his balls, but as is he just sounds like another whiny US citizen who thinks that his privacy supersedes the safety of all the other passengers.
The idea that he deserves special treatment begs the question of whether or not US citizens believe that only certain people(the brown ones?) deserve to be scrutinized. I'm sure the terrorists on 9/11 were standing around screaming "Allahu Akbar" with bombs hanging out of their pants.
Some horror stories have popped up involving children, cancer patients, etc. However, if you review the non-mainstream news you will realize that the TSA's actions are potentially justifiable. Children have on multiple occasions been utilized by parents or relatives to try to sneak drugs past security checkpoints in airports and prisons. A young Asian man recently disguised himself as a seemingly innocent and defenseless old man in order to sneak onto a plane. Appearances are deceiving but US citizens are too arrogant to realize that.
Granted some of the TSA agents went too far, however condemning an entire agency because of a few cases out of the millions of people who travel each year is absolutely idiotic. But the story has gained traction because the quality of the US media has degraded to the point that controversy has replaced the former viewpoint of if it bleeds it leads(which replaced if it's culturally significant it lead. Mr. Murrow, how I miss you so).
From a purely sociological standpoint, one can find a multitude of instances during which authority figures have abused their power. Cops have been accused of crimes including: assault, rape, child molestation, murder, theft, etc. Review the Standford prison experiment and you can see how quickly a person can be corrupted by power. The people working for the TSA are just as capable of becoming corrupted as a police officer or a soldier(hopefully everyone noticed the story about the US soldiers killing civilians just for fun).
The solution....fire the abusive TSA officers. Don't condemn an entire agency just become some homophobe couldn't deal with the possibility that a man might graze his clothes covered penis for a few seconds.
Football players slap each other's butts all the time, and some depraved individuals kick or punch each other in the balls from time to time. It's not like some dirty old man or woman is going to latch onto you and ask you if you like it during a TSA pat down. Most of the officers are just there to do a job for a paycheck, like everyone else. Grow up America and please stop acting like paranoid idiots
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