Intro: "So this blog post is titled: 'My Sex Life With the TSA.' Because I am getting a LOT of action from them. I went through JFK this past week. As usual, I request not to go through the backscatter machines. And as usual, they tell me that SINCE I mentioned it at all, they have to give me a 'pat-down.'"
A TSA officer signals an airline passenger forward at a security checkpoint at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Washington State, 12/29/10. (photo: Elaine Thompson/AP)
My Sex Life With the TSA
27 May 11/p>
o this blog post is titled: "My Sex Life With the TSA." Because I am getting a LOT of action from them.
I went through JFK this past week. As usual, I request not to go through the backscatter machines. And as usual, they tell me that SINCE I mentioned it at all, they have to give me a "pat-down."
Well, without flowers or candlelight or even a nice dinner, I am led into a highly visible corner, after quite a wait for a "female officer". They did ask if I wanted to go somewhere private but I would have felt even MORE uncomfortable NOT in a public setting.
A very attractive African-American woman in her mid-twenties was tasked with searching me. So of course, a skanky male traveler - white, mid-forties, affluent - decides to stand around and watch.
As this nice young woman goes through the whole procedure, I asked her - as I always ask TSA officials - if their training had explained to them WHY this process was necessary or what purpose it served. She said, "No," and her female colleague standing nearby also said "No."
Interestingly, the procedure is quite highly eroticized. She kept saying "Now I am going to touch your sensitive area." Which made me think that at least a generation of young women are going to learn where their clitorises are through our US tax dollar, which certainly has a social benefit.
But as she was engaged in quite thoroughly going through this process, the skanky white affluent male traveler, who was now done with his own security process, was HANGING OVER THE EDGE of the low barrier, perfectly relaxed, enjoying the scenario! And commenting: "Hey, can I have you pat me down?" "Hey, its always big hairy men with hair on their knuckles patting me down ... I want you to pat me down ... can I participate? I'll sign a waiver!" Swear to God.
So this poor woman - shades of the DSK cleaner, but harassed this time by the State - is being sexually degraded by the process she has to go through; sexually degraded by a passenger; and I feel rather sexually degraded too, by the process put in place by the State.
Finally I say sharply to him, "That's enough!" and the two women look at me in surprise.
"We thought he was with you!" they say.
"Never seen him before," I comment. And we all have a moment of bonding, being women in a state of complete skanked-at-ness.
Brought to you by the United States Government.
Naomi Wolf, Bestselling Author - The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot
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Naomi is known - she should tape it and send it to FOX - or youtube.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EqV2Rmkqaw
Government porno ....
If the U.S. gummint can get people to submit to this incredibly intrusive behavior (just as religions get people to believe absurdly magical stuff "on faith") the gummint can be reasonably sure the vast majority of citizens will put up with any intrusion into their lives, no matter how outrageous.
Keep your head down, don't resist.
Assume the position.
Welcome to the plantation.
The answer? Rise up en masse, people, or we're all fracked; and all those who do not rise up against all of this madness are complicit in the downfall of their fellow-humankin d! Totally wake up and take your liberty and freedom back, people; and I mean True Liberty and Freedom, not the lying version(s) of it that the "War (OF!) Terrorism" by "al-CIA-duh(!)" is waging against our True Liberty(ies) and Freedom(s)! Either we are TRULY free and liberated from ALL government enslavement (definition: the eradication of our True Liberties and Freedoms), or we are not free AT ALL! Therefore, what are YOU going to accept, allow, bow down to, or TRULY stand up against?!...
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My wife once was selected to be searched and it was a male TSA employee. He was nice but she was groped.
I think we need to rethink this whole damn thing. Are body scans via machine all that vital?
How fortunate I am !?!
Result - due to incompetent personnel with sticky fingers, we try to avoid check-throughs by packing light, at least until the TSA allows your presence while they tear apart your baggage.
But that doesn't even touch on the issue of whether your government has a right to exert this much control over your movements on the pretext that you are in danger when you fly. What is the origin of that purported danger? Answer: Your government itself and its policies over the past 50 years or so. Now look at the decline in the standard of living and in individual freedoms in your country since the 1980s, and in particular since 2001, and ask in whose interests your government has been acting (hint: look at the 2008 bailout and put it alongside the number of home foreclosures since then). Then you may begin to see a pattern.
If there is nothing but childlike belief in the benignity of your government, then no - there is no meaningful invasion of your privacy.
...What an evil authoritarian, autocratic and totalitarian militarized police state this country has become! This is why I personally believe that we are already under non-publicly-de clared martial law, and that it is only going to get worse and worse, particularly while most "Americans" are bowing down to it with little or no understanding of the Supreme Law(s) of the Land, the U.S. and state constitutions, and of True Liberty(ies) and Freedom(s), and while they are also allowing themselves to be fraudulently convinced that those who stand up for those things are supposedly the "domestic terrorists" that the government is convincing the majority that they supposedly "are".
I'm so sick and tired of all of this mass-insanity! Live (TRULY) free, or die (TRULY FREE or not truly free at all)!! What's it going to be, enslavement or True Freedom and Liberty?! We've got to rise up en masse against all of this madness or it is going to be the enslavement that is already ten years into being cemented into place and we're all "Fu(c)k-us-(all )-hima-(ed)"!
My fear is we are being trained to look the other way while our fellow citizens suffer at the hands of the 'authorities'. Another comment mentioned a fellow traveler stood by and watched a woman subjected to a pat down while sexually harrassing the female TSA .
I also travel abroad quite a bit and often have unusual routes and destinations. Ms. Wolfe has experienced nothing like the multiple-hour procedures and grillings and searches and confiscations of personal objects that I have experienced. Ms. Napolitano should be sacked in favor of someone with more respect for our constitutional guarantee of freedom from unreasonable searchs and seizures.
Lee Nason
New Bedford, Masssachusetts
DON'T FORGET - THIS PROCESS WAS STARTED UNDER THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION & CONTINUES UNDER OUR SO CALLED "CHANGE" PRESIDENT. THEREFORE NAPOLITANO ONLY FOLLOWS THE SAME TRACK AS CHERTOFF. CHERTOFF'S COMPANY IS PROFITING FROM THIS SYSTEM. HE WAS A BUSH GUY.
life is cheapened, anyone can do anything to anyone anytime.
The "thank god that isn't me" mode kicks in. I have watched, at our little airport in a 200K community, an elderly woman using a walker undergo a pat down--this woman looked
traumatized--an d literally almost fell twice. They made her
stand up with arms extended--a physical task it was obvious that she could not complete.
Scanners are NOT an option here--we don't have them--but she couldn't have physically done that either--and who knows what she
has--artificial hip, pacemaker, etc. All this time, her husband watched in horror but did not say a word. And, neither did I. I was too worried that it would delay my family (my husband knows that if they attempt to do anything to my 14 year daughter at all--I will pounce--and if they attempt to make
me do it, I plan on starting to strip right then and there) but with this vulnerable elderly fellow human being, I did not speak up. Shame on me. What have I become? What have we
all become? I regret my silence to this day.
Obama is uber war criminal.
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...They also don't "get" that IT IS THE DUTY OF ALL OF US TO STAND UP AGAINST ALL OF THIS MADNESS, AND EVISCERATION AND ELIMINATION OF OUR HUMAN RIGHTS AND CIVIL LIBERTIES! (Read the Declaration of Independence, which is part and parcel of the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights, and is just as much constitutional law as the Constitution and Bill of Rights themselves, under the Supremacy Clause of same, via the link below.) "We, the People" have been intentionally and systematically "dumbed down" about all of this, for the very purpose that it is bringing about, our voluntary surrender of our liberties and freedoms, thereby making it certain that we will have no True Security and Safety from "our own" government. And it will, in fact, become more and more extreme and put us in grave danger at their hands, as has already begun to happen on a wider and wider scale!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence ...
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...Now, next time, please don't be silent. The more people who are willing to put their lives and liberty on the line as it is their duty to do, the better. It is because most "sheople 'Americans'" are willing to put up with this unconstitutiona l, and violation of human and civil rights, madness that the U.S. government and TSA are getting away with it and instituting more and more violations of those rights and of our privacy. Please understand, if we no longer have any privacy, or very little of it left any more whatsoever, as is now already the case, we are no longer Truly Free whatsoever. Without True Privacy most the time, rather than its opposite as is now the case, there is no True Freedom. That is why the Founders of this country wrote the Bill of Rights, the first ten Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, and put the First and Fourth Amendments so prominently in same, because they realized this, and in order to seek to prevent it...
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...We cannot just sit back and "let the ACLU [and/or some other civil liberties organization(s) ] deal with this", etc.; for, if we do, we are bringing all hell on earth down upon ourselves. Look at the fact that it has already begun. The U.S. government, military and police are turning this country and much of the world into "communist China", "Russia", "East Germany" and/or "Nazi Germany", etc. We cannot allow this to continue without making ourselves traitors to human rights and civil liberties, and complicit in their eradication and our increasing repression. Even if we've got to die doing so, we've got to stand up against all of this madness; otherwise, we will die as slaves without any true human and civil rights whatsoever. Therefore, please put a stop to all of this madness, people!
This B.S. will last as long as the first or second violent episode at an airport caused by a Fourth Amendment violator who, in the absence of the treasonous Patriot Act, Michael Chertoff's Mossad Machines, and grope-downs, gets all emotional with his or her trigger finger with a Kent State Result (TM).
Not if but when.
The TSA is breaking the law and its just a matter of time.
http://www.light-to-dark.com/Chertoff_And_The_Fourth_Amendment.html
My experience with so called "homeland security" has been terrifying. My husband, a Mayo Clinic trained Pathologist, founder of a publicly traded company and loyal American, suffers from Parkinson's Disease. Every time he flies he is subjected to the usual ordeal of taking off jackets, shoes etc. (very difficult for someone in a wheelchair) and then submitting to an intimate body search. All difficult for a person in his condition. I also go through the same thing because I have a pacemaker. Flying anywhere is terrifying and traumatizing and I often think that we are all sheep going to slaughter and that there may be a gas oven at the end of the "security" line up. I recognize that this security scam is a profitable business for the Chertoff Group (former head of so called "Homeland Security") and has absolutely nothing to do with "homeland security".
We are being psychologically habituated to these dehumanizing systems. They are authoritarian and totalitarian in nature. Dehumanization is a tactic of Fascist states. What should I conclude given the above realities?
How many of you travelers have lost your luggage since 9-11? Who lost control of it? you? the airport employees? the air carrier? That's important because El Al Airlines and Israel air security always asks if anyone other than you has been in possession of your luggage.
Once you check your bag into cargo, you are no longer in possession of it.
http://www.theemptycarousel.com/the-causes-and-the-truth-behind-luggage-statistics.html
I quote: Airlines are not required to reveal how many thefts they have in a month or how many bags are lost, stolen or delayed per category.
If anyone can steal your luggage or pilfer items from your checked suitcase or from cargo, can they not certainly INSERT anything? Until security at the ground level is 100% "NO THEFTS" then there is no real air security. Think about it and complain about it. Passengers and flight crew in the passenger cabin do not pose the major security problem.
It still amazes me that Janet Napolitano is female. I guess I'm just one of those still-naive males who thinks that women in general would be more aware of sexual abuse, and would strive to prevent it. I know - genitals don't make the woman or the man. It's prejudice on my part to expect a woman to provide better leadership in this kind of situation. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely - whether vagina or penis attached.
Thanks Naomi for keeping this abuse visible, and for managing to keep a bit of humor about the whole awful mess as well.
So, thank you for doing your part(s) in doing what's right.
One thing, though, "Restore2Americ a", please discard the humor escapism, as Naomi Wolf needs to do too. None of the deadly serious fascism that is taking over the U.S. and the world is a laughing matter whatsoever; and, if we are truly, fully and completely doing the right thing(s), we will not continue to seek out humor in order to "cope" concerning any of that which isn't funny at all. It is (well past?) time to put aside fitting in and all childish things, as well as all residual avoidance of totally facing reality and fully standing up against it with all of our hearts, minds and souls, loving our fellow-humankin d as ourselves incessantly.
wolf you are a riot...i laughed out laugh. it felt good. wish i flied more often. i could use a good feeling up more often.
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