GLOBAL POLITICAL AWAKENING: TSA Desktop Image Makes Joke of Cavity Searching Children
source: http://globalpoliticalawakening.blogspot.com/2010/11/tsa-desktop-image-makes-joke-of-cavity....
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In January, the Guardian reported that experts determined that naked body scanner technology violates child protection laws which ban the creation of indecent images of children. The British Department for Transport confirmed that the “child porn” problem was among the “legal and operational issues” under discussion within the government.
Since the introduction of airport scanners, there have been countless complaints regarding privacy issues.
Earlier this year, a TSA employee in Miami was arrested after he physically assaulted a co-worker who had joked about the size of his penis.
In March, a TSA worker who conducted so-called patdowns was charged with multiple child sex crimes targeting an underage girl. “The bust outraged privacy and passenger advocates who say it justifies their fears about Logan International Airport’s full-body scanner,” the Boston Herald reported.
In September, 2007, a woman died while in custody at Phoenix’s notorious Sky Harbor Airport. Carol Ann Gotbaum had argued with TSA employees prior to her death and the official explanation was that she had strangled herself “while trying to get out of her handcuffs,” according to a report posted on the Gothamist website.
As the neocon Jeffrey Goldberg wrote in late October, the TSA considers the backscatter scanners and the “opt-out” manual search comical. Goldberg asked a TSA officer if the new Department of Homeland Security guidelines include a cavity search. “No way. You think Congress would allow that?” the TSA employee responded.
In addition, the Atlantic’s Goldberg was told by the TSA agent directly that pat downs were made increasingly invasive not for any genuine security reason, but to make the experience so uncomfortable for the traveler that they would prefer to use the body scanner, despite the fact that scientists at Columbia University and the Inter-Agency Committee on Radiation Safety, along with other scientific bodies, have all warned that the devices increase the risk of developing cancer.
Congress may be squeamish about anal cavity searches, but if the photo below is indeed real, employees at the TSA consider this most humiliating form of molestation to be a laughing matter, especially when conducted on children.
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werewere
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It seems that no one bothers to doubt the source. It's taken an ounce of truth and watered it down with a gallon of speculation and half-facts.
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werewere
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blaino
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Just don't fly, it has become too invasive. You would be better off walking** before stepping foot on another plane.
**Taking a ship (for the international travelers)
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blaino
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Ihatethemall
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I see those 2 guys as Beavis and Butthead screaming....."CAVITY SEARCH!!!!"
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Ihatethemall
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RojoGatto
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Oh for gods sake people there not gonna start cavity searching our children this is probably just a workplace joke i really hope that the TSA workers can have a little fun so they dont go crazy and Actually do this
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RojoGatto
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bailey78
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I really think someone should be fired for that.
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bailey78
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Joe_Medina
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Wrong! simple as that.
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Joe_Medina
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artemis6
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They better not search my kid !
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artemis6
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GLOBALPOLITICAL
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A truly sad state of affairs in America today!
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GLOBALPOLITICAL
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UtopianSky
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I wonder what a TSA agent would do if during a pat down, the traveler said:
"Oh yeah baby, that's it. oh baby, yeah. Oh god, oh god.. OH GOD YES YES YES! ... ah, thanks. I'll call you sometime."
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UtopianSky
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bailey78
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UtopianSky:
If I ever fly i will let you know.
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bailey78
