'BIG SIS' BACKLASH AFTER TSA GENITALIA GROPING... Opt Out? Then Brace Yourself... Paul Joseph Watson | Fed’s “mad experiment” TSA Fondles Women and Children Refusing Airport Naked Body Scanners
Opt Out of a Body Scan? Then Brace Yourself Print JOE SHARKEY, On Tuesday November 2, 2010, 1:40 am EDT HAVING been taught by nuns in grade school and later going through military boot camp, I have always disliked uniformed authorities shouting at me. So I was unhappy last week when some security screeners at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago started yelling. “Opt out! We got an opt out!” one bellowed about me in a tone that people in my desert neighborhood in Tucson usually reserve for declaring, “Rattlesnake!” Other screeners took up the “Opt out!” shout. I was marched from the metal detector lane to one of those nearby whole-body imagers, ordered to take everything out of my pockets, remove my belt and hold my possessions up high. Then I was required to stand still while I received a rough pat-down by a man whose résumé, I suspected, included experience at a state prison. “Hold your pants up!” he ordered me. What did I do to deserve this? Well, as I approached the checkpoints, I had two choices. One was a familiar lane with the metal detector, so I put my bag on that. To my right was a separate lane dominated with what the Transportation Security Administration initially called “whole-body imagers” but has now labeled “advanced imaging technology” units. Critics, of course, call them strip-search machines. I don’t like these things, and not just because of privacy concerns or because of what some critics have asserted are radiation safety issues with some of the machines that use X-ray technology. No, I don’t like the fact that I have to remove every item from every pocket, including my wallet and things as trivial as a Kleenex. You then strike a pose inside with your hands submissively held above your head, like some desperado cornered by the sheriff in a Western movie, while the see-through-clothes machine makes an image of your body. The T.S.A.’s position is that anyone can “opt out” of a body scan for reasons of privacy or whatever, but will then be subjected to a thorough physical pat-down and careful search of belongings. In my case, I had been routinely using a normal metal detector checkpoint, when I was ordered to switch lanes and instead go to one of the new machines. I said I would prefer not to, given that my carry-on bag, laptop and shoes were already trundling along the regular machine’s conveyor belt, out of sight. That’s when the shouting started. As of Monday afternoon, the agency had not responded to several requests for comment on this. Last week, the agency did tell me that there were 317 of the advanced imaging technology machines now in use at 65 airports around the country. About 500 should be online by the end of the year, the agency said, and another 500 are expected to be installed next year. Ultimately, the agency plans to have the new machines replace metal detectors at all of the roughly 2,000 airport checkpoints. Meanwhile, both passengers and security screeners are making accommodations, and I acknowledge, change is a challenge. But hey, security folks, could we please start communicating better about the procedures, preferably without shouting or insulting our intelligence? Bruce Delahorne, a marketing executive who flies frequently, said he was also recently going through a standard metal detector at O’Hare — no body imager in sight — when the old rules abruptly changed. Mr. Delahorne said: “They had one of the T.S.A. staff announcing loudly: ‘Take everything out of your pockets. If you have a wallet, take it out. A handkerchief, out.’ I asked the guy, ‘Can you explain the reason for the new process?’ He said there was nothing new. ‘We have always done this.’ ” Well, no they haven’t, as you and I and Mr. Delahorne all know. Mr. Delahorne said he thought, “O.K., I get it. This guy is reading from the card, not talking to me.” So, Mr. Delahorne said, “I did what they told me to. But on the other side of the metal detector, I said to another screener, ‘Could you explain to me why the procedure is now different at this airport, like having to remove a wallet that never set off the metal detector?’ And he said, ‘No, no. The process has always been the same, at every airport.’ ” Mr. Delahorne said he was perfectly willing to comply with all procedures to ensure good security. He just wondered whether some of them were being made up on the spot. “For me,” he said, “the issue is, who’s in charge here and what are the rules?” E-mail: [email protected] TSA MACHINE will lead to the start of the second American Revolution. AMERICA GOES IN SANE WITH THIS NEW STUPID MEASURES and its robot TSA, showing its stupidity ,from the manufacturers to the politcy makers , by allowing this machine to penalize each us citizen ,children with a label as suspect terrorist . While the US foreign policy makers have sent the US military forces to catch the imaginary TERRORISTS , in afganistan ,Pakistan , and ship OPIUM BACK TO AMERICA for sale ? IT SHOWS that THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF AMERICA IS STUPID , much more corrupted. WHY ? IT SHOWS THAT THE national security system such CIA , DIA , NSA, THE STATE DEPT ETC... is totally broken , are INCAPABLE TO DO THEIR REGULAR JOB? OR THE US GOVERNMENT IS FILLED WITH CHILDISH PEOPLE ? Paul Joseph Watson | Fed’s “mad experiment” TSA Fondles Women and Children Refusing Airport Naked Body Scanners Infowars.com | Alex talks with Michelle, a long-time Infowars.com employee about her experience at the hands of the TSA. Note: While her experience is frightening enough to warrant serious concern among citizens, Alex himself has witnessed this happen to men, women, and children on multiple occasions. Michelle will be joining Alex on the show again today to continue the discussion. It is important to note that the pat-downs are intensifying in their violations of personal space and privacy. t FROM AMERICA WITH LOVE. VIETNAM INVASION & OCCUPATION OF CAMBODIA continues 1979-2010. US PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN INSISTS ON CAMBODIA INDEPENDENCE. 1988. "Prime Minister Pham Van Dong called on me and, in the presence of Premier Chou En-lai, swore in the name of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam that the latter would always respect the land frontiers as well as all islands belonging to the "Kingdom of Cambodia" March 1970 by Sihanouk . 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