We Wont Fly. Act Now. Travel With Dignity. Jam TSA Checkpoints By Opting Out Until Removal of Scans

[David Guyatt]

Another very heavy hitting cartoon.

And as the cartoon character says, in that case "I'm not going to fly".

Quite right.

[Jan Klimkowski]

Trains and subway systems appear to be next up for Volkland Security:

TSA Searches: Are Trains and Subways Next?

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
November 22, 2010

John Pistole, the TSA boss, has implored activists to rethink their “opt-out” protest this week. Pistole warns that the national protest against naked body scanners and intrusive pat downs at airports would be a mistake and will only serve to “tie up people who want to go home and see their loved ones,” according to the Associated Press.

If John Pistole and the federal government have their way, we may have to opt-out of taking the subway or riding a train in the near future.

“I understand people’s frustrations,” said president Obama from Lisbon over the weekend. Obama said at present naked body scanners and pat down searches bordering on sexual molestation are the best way to prevent Muslims in caves from attacking the American people. Secretary of State Clinton told Meet the Press on Sunday that “everyone, including our security experts, are looking for ways to diminish the impact on the traveling public” and that “striking the right balance is what this is about.”

For now, that “balance” means a near minimum wage TSA worker will fondle your testicles and there is nothing you can do about it. Protesting will only slow down traffic and prevent people from visiting their family and friends.

Obama and Clinton expect you to bite the bullet and accept what amounts to sexual molestation in order to board a commercial airplane in the United States. Pistole said it really is not a big deal because “a very small percent” of people are subject to the process of submission and humiliation.

If past comments made by Mr. Pistole are any indicator, however, the government would like to see naked body scanners and intrusive pat downs expand from airports to train stations and subway platforms.

Soon after taking over the TSA earlier this year, the former FBI deputy director Pistole told USA Today that he will work to expand airport Gestapo zones. “Protecting riders on mass-transit systems from terrorist attacks will be as high a priority as ensuring safe air travel, the new head of the Transportation Security Administration promises,” the newspaper reported on July 17.

“Given the list of threats on subways and rails over the last six years going on seven years, we know that some terrorist groups see rail and subways as being more vulnerable because there’s not the type of screening that you find in aviation,” Pistole said. “From my perspective, that is an equally important threat area.”

In addition, Pistole said he would like to see TSA workers, including 47,000 screeners at 450 airports, to operate as a “national-security, counterterrorism organization, fully integrated into U.S. government efforts.” He wants to “take TSA to the next level.”

Earlier this month, the TSA implemented the “enhanced” security procedures that are now coming under fire and have resulted in countless people refusing to fly and the roll out of the national opt-out campaign that will commence on November 24 across the country.

If John Pistole and the federal government have their way, we may have to opt-out of taking the subway or riding a train in the near future.

It may not be long before you are forced through a naked body scanner or obliged to have your genitals groped in order to visit the local market to buy food and necessities. Considering the trajectory the TSA and the government are on, you may have to submit to a body cavity search at the local mall.

The Pentagon and local law enforcement are ahead of the curve. “As the privacy controversy around full-body security scans begins to simmer, it’s worth noting that courthouses and airport security checkpoints aren’t the only places where backscatter x-ray vision is being deployed. The same technology, capable of seeing through clothes and walls, has also been rolling out on U.S. Streets,” Andy Greenberg wrote for Forbes in August. “While the biggest buyer of AS&E’s [roving x-ay] machines over the last seven years has been the Department of Defense operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, Reiss says law enforcement agencies have also deployed the vans to search for vehicle-based bombs in the U.S.”

There are few if any “vehicle-based bombs” on U.S. roads, not that this fact has prevented the government from claiming it is a threat. The DHS released a memo “stating that terrorists may try to kill innocent women, children and men in the United States by hiding IEDs in luggage left at airports,” Fox News reported not long after patsy and barbeque grill gas canister non-bomber Faisal Shahzad was arrested.

If you think this is simply more fear-mongering, consider that the TSA has already beta tested searching Greyhound bus terminals in Florida. In 2005, the agency used the Madrid bombings as an excuse to train officers to use bomb sniffing dogs in mass transit stations. “The agency’s broader role overseeing all forms of public transportation and the increased terrorist threat to mass transit indicated by train bombings in Madrid and London have caused the canine program to expand significantly in recent years, the TSA’s Web site reports,” according to the U.S. Air Force.

Kurt Nimmo edits Infowars.com. He is the author of Another Day in the Empire: Life In Neoconservative America.

http://www.infowars.com/tsa-searches-are...ways-next/

[Jan Klimkowski]

Protecting the Volkland through molestation:

Miernik said the worst experience she had came when her 7-year-old granddaughter was at the airport with her. When her granddaughter saw the pat down, “She went ‘Grandmama, they touched you on your special girl spots.’”

Miernik was mortified, as was her granddaughter, she said.. She believes the pat downs are unnecessarily intrusive, and she hasn’t even experienced the “more aggressive” pat downs the TSA started employing Oct. 29.

“If this happened to me in college on a date, I would have called the police,” Miernik said.

TSA, though, has maintained the aggressive pat downs are an important measure in preventing any exploding device from making it onto a plane.

On Saturday, President Obama said the pat downs “cause huge inconveniences for all of us,” adding that he “understood people’s frustrations.”

Miernik said she once wrote a letter to TSA complaining about the pat downs. She said they responded that, as an American, she didn’t have to submit to the body scanners or the pat downs. They added, though, that she would have to find a different form of transportation.

http://www.abcactionnews.com/dpp/news/re...molested'-

[Peter Lemkin]

The next 'logical' (sic) step is obviously an internal X-ray or CT-scan to make sure you haven't swallowed or hidden in some body cavity...even had surgically implanted [or had from birth] inside you a bomb or other 'device'. I predict this will be in place within the next year or three - and also apply to trains, subways, long-distance buses, trams in Europe, maybe even clearance needed to walk/cycle in the central part of a city, or near Heimat infrastructure and facilities. Welcome to the Brave New World......"may I take your hat and goat?......"

[Magda Hassan]

On Saturday, President Obama said the pat downs “cause huge inconveniences for all of us,” adding that he “understood people’s frustrations.”

Sure. Like he has ever been subjected to this crap.

[Keith Millea]

HEY!Nobody touches the Presidents junk.I think it's written into the Constitution.:goodnight:

[David Guyatt]

HEY!Nobody touches the Presidents junk.I think it's written into the Constitution.:goodnight:

Caption:

Prez's Package Patted-down by Plane Police

Sub:

Prez Prostrate and Palpitating by Pigs Palm-off.

[Peter Lemkin]

The Shoe Bomber got us to have to take off our shoes at airports.

The Underpants Bomber got us to have to have backscater X-ray or grope-the-groin at airports.

And what is to stop someone from having false teeth filled with explosives, so I suggest peremptory dental exams and X-rays.

I'm sure they'll soon come up with a bomber caught just in the nick of time with a bomb in his anus, so we'll all have to have rectal exams at airports.

Hey, fact is, as I stated before, the only way to be sure is to CT-scan everyone*, including the kids, dogs and baggage...oh what fun it is to fly these days....please someone bring back non-luxury liner ocean-crossing boats!

*anything suspicious looking would be dealt with with surgery at gunpoint - and no opting out!!

It might just be easier and quicker to either waterboard everyone a few times, and ask them if they have any explosives and packed their bags themselves - or - cancel aviation altogether - the safest solution of all.

[Jan Klimkowski]

I'm sure they'll soon come up with a bomber caught just in the nick of time with a bomb in his anus, so we'll all have to have rectal exams at airports.

In Kent, the coppers call it the "Chatham Pocket".

Very funny and slightly nauseating UK Channel 4 documentary clip, featuring interviews with custody officers, here:

The Chatham Pocket

[Peter Lemkin]

I'm sure they'll soon come up with a bomber caught just in the nick of time with a bomb in his anus, so we'll all have to have rectal exams at airports.

In Kent, the coppers call it the "Chatham Pocket".

Very funny and slightly nauseating UK Channel 4 documentary clip, featuring interviews with custody officers, here:

The Chatham Pocket

Oh Jan, How could you point me to that url....I had to wash my brains with lye and don't feel like a virgin anymore!:vollkommenauf: Please don't let Homeland Security or its UK equivalent see that!

....not being British I miss any in joke or slight to a locale by the use of the term C.P.