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One difference between being a senator and being the rest of us? If you get stopped by an airport security scanner, it's all part of the price for our Enhanced Security Nation. If an archconservative senator gets stopped by the exact same scanner, it is quickly seen as evidence of a probable conspiracy: ...
As was pointed out previously, Rand Paul was detained because he refused to be patted down by a government-paid stranger after the first scanner triggered. Apparently he felt strongly about this government-sanctioned invasion of his privacy, which led to him being delayed while traveling to give a speech on how government should have expanded powers to take people's privacy away from them.
It's not clear if the scanners have a "detain this person" button. It is clear, however, that they are carefully calibrated for irony.
John Mueller and his students analyze the 33 cases of attempted [EDITED TO ADD: Islamic extremist] terrorism in the U.S. since 9/11. So few of them are actually real, and so many of them were created or otherwise facilitated by law enforcement.
The death toll of all these is fourteen...
Given the credible estimate that we've spent $1 trillion on anti-terrorism security (this does not include our many foreign wars), that's $62.5 billion per life saved.
Many...security measures have been implemented gradually in pilot programs slowly rolled out across the United States, so by the time people become broadly aware of them, they’re already established.
This security theatre serves a number of functions for the TSA and the US government, and not very many of them are directly related to actually making air travel safer. Citizens learn that they should not self-advocate, defend civil rights, or choose to disobey commands...from people in uniform, even though many TSA officers are poorly trained and are unfamiliar with their agency’s own policies. ...
...part of a larger ‘papers, please’ trend in the United States ... watched overseas with increasing interest, especially on the part of prospective travelers to the US. Increasingly, airport security is starting to seem like a parody of itself.
The TSA’s latest innovation is the ‘chat-down,’ a brief interview with security officers that they’re rolling out at Logan Airport. Every single passenger who goes through the airport in the next two months will be subjected to interview...
"A Miami photographer was escorted off a US Airways plane and deemed a “security risk” after she snapped a photo of an employee’s nametag at Philadelphia International Airport Friday.
"Sandy DeWitt said the employee, whose name was Tonialla G., was being rude to several passengers ...
"So DeWitt snapped a photo of her nametag with her iPhone because she planned to complain about her in a letter ..."
...there's nothing illegal about taking pictures. And yet all over the country people in uniforms are behaving as if there is and treating people like criminals if they do it. This is perhaps the most obvious example of a police state mentality being accepted by the citizenry.
...Again, we ask where is the dress code posted, and who is in charge of enforcing it? In the future, can we make citizen's arrests of passengers with poor hygiene, who wear see-through clothing without underwear or who walk around in foul-smelling socks?
Here's a new law that won't work:...
Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) called on Sunday for a "no-ride" list for Amtrak trains, as a way of preventing potential terrorists from riding the rails.
[ACLU Blog]
...A man in San Diego reports being threatened with a lawsuit and $10,000 fine for refusing to submit to either a strip-search scan or an aggressive groping of his "junk" — even though he had decided to forgo the trip and was leaving the airp
[Hullabaloo - digby]
Everyone's written about this "don't touch my junk" story, but this new development is so sadly in line with my thesis about these things that it's almost a cliche. When I wrote about it over the week-end, I pointed out that this was
[Skepchick]
A lot of folks have said that if you don’t want to have the scan and fly safely, or accept that some strangers will have to touch you, then you should just not fly. The reality is, though, that for many of us we must fly semi-regularly as pa
[ABA Journal Top Stories]
[Calitics - Robert Cruickshank]
Public outrage at the TSA's new policies of sexually assaulting travelers in the name of "security" is growing by the day as new stories of horrific abuses emerge.
...one woman from Santa Clara, a cancer survivor whose d
...Guess what exciting new oh-Lord-not-my-vagina type issues emerged RIGHT THE HELL AFTER I took a plane out to the Ohio?...
SADY: ... I do feel bad for dudes who are facing consequences for refusing to have their junk groped. TRAUMA IS TRAUMATIC FOR MEN
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