It's what I've observed and what I've heard from relatives. Not that writing it up in the news isn't part of the strategy ...
I don't think individual TSA screeners are "icky," by and large. I...
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It's what I've observed and what I've heard from relatives. Not that writing it up in the news isn't part of the strategy ...
I don't think individual TSA screeners are "icky," by and large. I...
I don't think opposition to racial profiling - or other profiling based on appearance - has anything to do with "ego."
It does seem to me that people profiled as most likely to be terrorized, not...
... and an important part of that is not forgetting the other 5-7 million people killed by the Nazis ...
/hijack
More:
http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2011/05/why-secrecy-airport-scanners
I agree, and that's nothing new. It's the same reason elderly people, particularly elderly women, have been profiled all along for more intrusive searches.
But that's another thread...
Thanks for that, sundial. I'd heard the same thing, but only repeated second or third hand by people with no expertise - hard to convince others when I'm just repeating it myself.
Those are cute, but obviously anyone who goes through the scanner with radiation-blocking garments will have to be groped.
Roxy, I'm really glad you had a good experience this time (and hoping...
I have very little modesty, but I'm not going to dis those who do. Sexual assault IS a continuum, as they used to say in the '70s, and the fact that people have endured the horrific extreme end of...
That can't be, CMH is lower traffic than either CVG or CLE, probably around the same as Dayton.
ORD used to be the highest-traffic airport in the USA (not sure if that's still the case), but...
You have a right to a private screening (but they'll probably hassle you if you ask for one), and reportedly they've made breast cancer survivors take off their bras and show them their prostheses.
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I would think anything with a chamois would raise the same issues as sanitary pads and incontinence products. Which I would think have to come off, since they just present as pads on the scanners,...
Not even close. Which also raises questions about the backscatter machines, never mind the recent scandals about medical radiation overdosing.
As much as TSA employees are everyone's least...
EPIC has a list, but it doesn't look like it's been updated since September, and obviously a lot of it has been rolled out since then. Columbus isn't on their list.
We last flew in October - Columbus, OH has the machines but hadn't started using them (at least, I didn't see anyone going through them) - Newark, NJ didn't have them yet. So it's not entirely the...
I was just thinking today, if the authorities talked to us about all other dangers the way they do about radiation (medical radiation included, I've had the talk from a medical physicist):
"You're...