I Need A Shower Now...

[teleen_fiction]

Warning:  This video is disturbing, wrong and possibly triggery.  It's also a pretty good summation of how I feel about the TSA now.  Watch at your own risk!

ETA:  For the record, this video isn't funny to me.  It's too true to be funny, :(.

Comments

[reddwarfer.livejournal.com]

I didn't find the video very funny, but I agree that the pat-downs/scanning is way too invasive. I'm nervous because I was supposed to be going down to FLA next Feb with my kid. I don't want anyone touching me or my kid like that.


I don't believe in sacrificing my civil liberties for safety. I just don't. Never have.

[teleens-journal.livejournal.com]

Oh, I didn't find it funny, either. It's too true to be funny, :(.

[darth-eldritch.livejournal.com]

...so wrong....

[teleens-journal.livejournal.com]

Yep.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_lullabelle_/]

I have a pretty high tolerance for disturbing content, and I feel like I need a hot shower with a scratchy sponge after watching that.

[teleens-journal.livejournal.com]

Same here, *shudder*.

[madder-rose.livejournal.com]

Sell your soul for a little security, pretty soon you don't have either.

Maybe the odds of being patted down and frisked or asked to go through the naked-scanner are low, but I'm still pondering the merits of informing the hypothetical TSA-Agent who'll hypothetically be patting me down come july that they'll be facing a lawsuit if I feel anything "out of order". I can't sue the TSA or the government, but I can sue a person. Mowhahaha.

Just to clarify:

[madder-rose.livejournal.com]

I don't mean the above to be a flippant reply in any way. While I'm sure the TSA like many organisations claim that they have procedures in place and that they are completely professional they can't guarantee 100% professionalism and their employers don't have years of experience with this sort of intimate search (as seen in your links roundup).

Not to mention the victims of previous assault who might be triggered and suffer panic attacks, even before they arrive at the airport for fear of this procedure.

The TSA as an organisation seems pretty out of bounds for now, but citizens do have rights. If I'm going to be groped I'm going to exercise those rights viciously, because if I who have less problems being triggered don't protest, then how are the ones who do trigger and panic going to?

Re: Just to clarify:

[teleens-journal.livejournal.com]

The whole system is so broken it will take the light from fixed a billion years to reach the Earth...