I'm a big fan on Thanksgiving but it feels like Christmas is making Thanksgiving its bitch. Christmas stays intruding on Thanksgiving more and more each year and I find it to be a bit annoying. Fall back Christmas! You get the entire month of December for people to fawn over you, Thanksgiving gets 1 day...let em live!
Thanksgiving time is one of the busiest travel days of the year, which brings me to the point of this blog. BODY SCANNERS!! Allow me to rant about the whole TSA body scanner/ pat down situation going on in a majority of airports around the nation because I know that's what you like.
A common response I often hear from people when talking about body scanner/ pat downs sounds a little something like this, "ah, who cares what they do as long as I'm safe." Safe??? Right! If you find yourself in a conversation with someone about this topic and they regurgitate that same sentence to you, then you have Plan B's permission to punch that person in the face.
First off, there's NOTHING safe about walking thru the body scanner, they're basically X-ray machines. If you've ever had an X-ray in the past for a broken bone, or at the dentist or whatever, you'll remember someone putting a giant lead vest over your body. That vest is meant to protect you from the harmful radiation that gets omitted from the X-ray machine for a test that lasts about 2 seconds, no big deal. But, when you enter a body scanner machine your wearing NO lead vest for protection and they make you stand there for 15 seconds while they blast your body with deadly radiation. Is that something you want to expose yourself to?? Guys, think about your balls getting zapped with X-rays for 15 seconds and tell me that body scanners are safe.
Ok, so you dont wanna go through the body scanner....smart call. But what's your next option? Well, you can 'opt out' of the body scan but that means you're going to have to go through a full body enhanced pat down from a TSA agent. After all, YOU'RE a terrorist! They'll reach down your pants and get all up in your crotchal region, they'll feel your titties with an open palm and they'll do it in front everyone in the airport... that is, unless you want to take it to a "private room" in which case you get a 3 song pat down. Remember, there's no sex in the pat down room.
Here's a picture of what a body scanner image looks like.
Pretty detailed ey??? A lot different from those murky ones they show on TV. I'm not mad at this picture because there's titties in it and boy do I love titts! Imagine if this was a picture of your wife, or your sister or your daughter... safety first right?? Let's say, for arguments sake, that your 15 year old daughter has a body scan image similar to the picture above minus the weapons but with the same set of perky breasts... wouldn't storing images of her naked body be considered as child pornography??? Think about that...
Nevermind the fact that the scanners and pat downs are a breach of our 4th amendment rights. The 4th Amendment guards against unreasonable searches and seizures. The amendment specifically also requires search and arrest warrants be judicially sanctioned and supported by probable cause. What probably cause does the TSA have for patting down 7 year olds?? If these security measures were put in place to 'keep us safe from terrorists' then why not just search suspicious people with Arabic backgrounds?? Well, you cant do that because then ultra-liberal dooshbags will call you a racist. So instead of search would-be terrorists the TSA will consider EVERYONE as a potential terrorist. Gotta be fair right???
Terrorism! Ahhh! Keep us safe from terrorists!!! That's the main reason why were subject to these intrusive security measures because terrorists want to blow you up! Terrorism is a great way to scare people into submission. Like that scary "Christmas Day Bomber". Lots of TV talking heads use him as an example of why we need body scanners, after all, he had explosives in his underpants! It's not like the bombers father warned the CIA and other government agencies about his crazy son 2 weeks prior to his arrest. Ignore the fact his name was on a terror 'watch list' but wasnt added to the 'no fly' list. Sure, he passed through multiple checkpoints without ID and some how got on an international flight with no passport but who hasnt done that right??? We need some body scanners right Michael Chertoff??????
If you dont think there's anything wrong with this blatant intrusion of rights and privacy then I feel bad for you... this isn't a 'conspiracy theory' this is really happening! I'm for security at the airport because there's obvious dangers but I think metal detectors were working just fine. Everyday Americans are giving up freedoms and privacy under the guise of being kept safe from terrorism. It's all bullshit. Where does it end??? We give and inch, they take a foot... where does it end????
