We've all seen those 2 or 3 hazy images that TSA says are examples of what their pornoscope generates. Not so bad, eh? Well, that's BULLSHIT. Guess what? TSA's scanners can tell if a woman is wearing a panty liner. And if they don't like it, the woman gets the finger. Literally.
These new scans are so horrible that if you are wearing something unusual (like a piece of cloth on your panties) then you will be subjected to a search where a woman repeatedly has to check your "groin" while another woman watches on (two in my case - they were training in a new girl - awesome).
There is an assumption that only TSA women would look at women's images in the scanner, and men would look at men. I find nothing confirming this assumption. Women could be (and probably are) being viewed by this guy, or this fellow busy checking out some Islamic militant butt.
Now, I personally believe that TSA will come crashing to a halt after enough ex-McDonalds employees have to view my own flabby ancient carcass which, just like my car, is held together by duct tape and luck, although I think having to repeatedly grope Samuel Johnson and his two trusty and rotund assistants might also induce agency-wide loss of morale, just as in this cri de grope:
Molester, pervert, disgusting, an embarrassment, creep. These are all words I have heard today at work describing me, said in my presence as I patted passengers down. These comments are painful and demoralizing, one day is bad enough, but I have to come back tomorrow, the next day and the day after that to keep hearing these comments. If something doesn’t change in the next two weeks I don’t know how much longer I can withstand this taunting. I go home and I cry.
Ah, crying at home, how unfortunate that this guardian of our freedoms could have been locked up in a glass cage and threatened with arrest because she asked that her breast milk not be x-rayed (which is permitted under TSA published guidelines). Then he could have just cried at work like she did. Watch the whole video, you'll learn a lot about our glorious last line of defense against Global Terror.
What if your children are actually WITH YOU when you travel? TSA has a simple solution. They grope the ones under 12, and they use the nudoscope on the ones 13 and over, unless of course you or your child objects to having a stranger see them naked (and, at least possibly, collect a permanent digital image of your child, without your knowledge or consent). In that case, they'll grope your child too. Got a disabled child? Get ready for the grope. Doubt me? Here's a lTSA agent reaching for the crotch of a six-year old.
Are you ready to see that happen to your child?
Is your child ready?
Because you'd better be if you want to fly on an airplane with your children. This will happen to you and your child.
But TSA has strict background check requirements. We can trust them, no? You be the judge. Check out Chapter 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Section 1542.209. Long story short:
You can get a TSA job if you've been convicted even yesterday of menacing, domestic violence, and other crimes related to threats, so long as the conviction was a misdemeanor. You can get a job at the TSA if you were convicted yesterday of sexual abuse, provided it was not "aggravated" sexual abuse. Similar, a conviction yesterday of assault is no barrier to employment today with TSA, provided it was not "aggravated" You can get a job at TSA even if you were convicted of rape, aggravated sexual abuse, and aggravated assault so long as your conviction has to have been at least 10 years ago. TSA has in fact hired someone with an armed robbery conviction from 10 years previously.
TSA Hires Felon & Forces Airport To Issue Security Badge
The TSA claims that since the crime occurred when the person was a minor it is not disqualifying crime … however they served their entire felony sentence as an adult and they have direct access to passenger’s personal property.
At the time the TSA TSO submitted their employment application, and again at the time they were hired, they failed to disclose their felony conviction to the TSA.
So take comfort in knowing that even though that man is rubbing his hand over your son's crotch, it's been at least ten years since he was last convicted of sex abuse.
What about those gloves? Do they change them every time before they jam their hands down your pants, and disinfect their hands before they put on fresh gloves? Check out the CDC guidelines. The way I see it, they need to disinfect the hands once the old gloves are removed before putting on new gloves. The new gloves should be withdrawn from the sterile box, and not just kept in an unsterile pocket.
Go to the video I linked above showing the young mother locked in their plexiglass jail cell. The TSA worker sits around for over half an hour and in this time she sticks her finger in her ear and rubs her nose at least once. When she goes to search the woman (a second time) she changes her gloves, but doesn't disinfect her hands, and just pulls a new glove out of her pocket.
Don't forget also that TSA also wants to run their hands through your hair, if they think it's too long. Think about those gloves riding around for hours in the TSA pocket.
Whatever's in that agent's pocket is gonna be in your hair. But that's a sacrifice we have to make to win the global war on terror.