Feeling up women's private parts to fight terrorism

[Agathon]

I got searched once in Sydney. They didn't even have the decency to do it away from the crowd.

Thus a huge crowd of people were watching and laughing when the customs agent held up my novelty underwear with the bananas emblazoned on them.

[Spiffor]

This only furthers my conviction never to travel to the US until these moronics laws are gotten rid of.

Not that I mind having my privates fondled , but I don't want it to be done by some paranoid cop.

[Agathon]

Originally posted by Spiffor

Not that I mind having my privates fondled , but I don't want it to be done by some paranoid cop.

Why not?

[Spiffor]

Have you seen the stick she intends to slap your bollocks with?

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Agathon


Why not?

[Agathon]

Originally posted by Spiffor
Have you seen the stick she intends to slap your bollocks with?

I'll slap her with my stick first.

[Stefu]

Feeling up women's private parts
Terrorism

[Kontiki]

Originally posted by Tingkai
Maureen Dowd with the NYT complains about the same thing:

It always makes me feel slimy and humiliated, as though I'm in one of those cheesy women-in-prison movies, with titles like "Caged," "Slammer Girls" or "Reform School Girls."

First you have to strip, unzipping your boots, unbuckling your belt and unbuttoning your suit jacket while any guys standing around watch. Then you have to walk around in some flimsy top and stocking or bare feet. Then you have to assume the spread-eagled position. Then a beefy female security agent runs her hands all the way around your breasts, in between, underneath - again with guys standing around staring.

Flying on business, I've gone through this embarrassing tableau two dozen times in airports all over the country in the last couple of months. I've been searched more than Martha Stewart. I watched a Transportation Security Administration screener brusquely insist that my friend take off her blazer even though she had on only lingerie underneath - a see-through camisole - and the man behind her was leering.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/25/op...icle_popular_2

Not that I'm condoning the searches, but if you fly even resonably frequently, wouldn't it cross your mind to wear something appropriate knowing you're going to go through a security screening?

[Shi Huangdi]

OK, maybe the way we do these changes should be changed, but we can't just declare certain areas of the body a "No Search Zone". Otherwise, someone could smuggle a weapon or explosive on board the plane that they were hiding in their underwear.

[Last Conformist]

I've been body-examed trice, rather less thoroughly than these people. Twice when visiting the Reichstag, once when entering a party in Aachen.

I did not get checked when walking thru the metal detectors with several hectos of metal on my person on the 11th of September, 2003, neither in Stockholm nor Brussels. The detectors did not even go off.

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Jesus Christ (I heard about this earlier). I hope the morons that voted for Bush are happy.

No, I wanted all Muslims thrown in camps by now.

[chequita guevara]

There are ways to search people without "groping" them. You don't need to grab, let alone grab hard.

I think there's also a bit of a power trip on the part of people who get to do this. "Watch me make this rich ***** whimper."

[Combat Ingrid]

They do this routinely on some festivals, to prevent people from bringing in knives and stuff into the festival area.
I never got the impression the guards enjoyed doing this, it's just a part of their job.

[alva]

Her husband, an airline pilot, tried to join in her protest, but he could only look on because he wasn't allowed near where she was being searched, Higley said

This seems like a bit weird too, why wouldn't her husband be allowed with her??

[Imran Siddiqui]

Otherwise, someone could smuggle a weapon or explosive on board the plane that they were hiding in their underwear.

And groping people is the answer?