Just about the time you think you can’t possibly hate the TSA any more bitterly, the agency pulls another rabbit out of its hat, and you realize, yeah, you absolutely can detest it even more.
As of Thursday, the gate-rapists have “started using a new and more rigorous pat-down at airports, which one passenger this week likened to ‘groin scrutiny.’”
Sounds like fun. And totally, incredibly, let’s-start-the-Revolution-now unconstitutional.
These “’more rigorous’ searches ‘will be more thorough and may involve an officer making more intimate contact than before.’ ‘I would say people who in the past would have gotten a pat-down that wasn’t involved will notice that the [new] pat-down is more involved,’ TSA spokesman Bruce Anderson said Friday.”
Flight crews are now subject to sexual assault, too. Their union had secured an exemption for them in 2010 (note that certain “Political Figures” also “enjoy skipping the TSA’s screenings [sic for ‘manhandling’]”; I can guarantee you that privilege hasn’t changed) ; the TSA says now that it “conducts occasional random searches of these employees … The number of random searches for airline crews isn’t changing and will remain a ‘very small percentage’ of the total…” And if you work at an airport, you’re especially vulnerable: “ … badged employees will be required to comply with a TSA officer’s request to conduct a full body pat down.”
This may actually be a blessing for liberty. Passengers have grown used to the TSA’s atrocities; they no longer object vehemently or even at all.
“Groin scrutiny” should wake ‘em up. (Thanks to the many readers who sent me links to this story.)
8:27 am on March 4, 2017
