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View Poll Results: What decision will you be making for AIT scanners?
Bring on the naked photos 21 21.88%
I'll have the groper please 6 6.25%
I'll strip naked and let everyone have a look 16 16.67%
I won't fly 36 37.50%
I have to fly for business but no way are my kids going through this 8 8.33%
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Old 11-24-2010, 12:06 PM   #226
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On topic question I am really really wondering but it is of an adult nature, sort of.

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These TSA folks arent going to tackle a woman or have her remove a tampon are they??? They made one remove her prosthetic breast...I may call them up if no one knows.



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Old 11-24-2010, 01:10 PM   #227
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they probably would, but the scanner won't display that
thats why its usage is questionable

and then the officer won't know
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Old 11-24-2010, 02:23 PM   #231
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Old 11-24-2010, 02:45 PM   #232
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An Armed society is a polite society as KK said before.
Yeah, because we all want to live in a society where people must always be polite because they fear being murdered on the spot if they aren't (which is what that idiotic saying breaks down to.)

But here's what I dropped in to post-- if you don't fight the police state, the police state will grow:

http://it.slashdot.org/story/10/11/2...-Metro-Systems
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Old 11-24-2010, 02:50 PM   #233
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Even more fodder for a fully armed society.
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Old 11-27-2010, 12:34 PM   #234
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Woman misses her flight over breast milk. WTF?
Here's what's really wrong with the TSA. This is appaling? What are your thoughts?

Please visit Roger Ebert's blog at http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/politics/nbsp-nbsp.html to leave comments and if you're an American citizen I strongly recommend that you write your government representative and voice your concern. Nobody should be treated like this in my opinion.
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I wrote Hutchinson with some of my concerns. The form letter response was long and winding, but the basic response was "too bad for you, we're going to do it anyway."
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Old 11-27-2010, 06:06 PM   #236
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Woman misses her flight over breast milk. WTF?
Here's what's really wrong with the TSA. This is appaling? What are your thoughts?

Please visit Roger Ebert's blog at http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/politics/nbsp-nbsp.html to leave comments and if you're an American citizen I strongly recommend that you write your government representative and voice your concern. Nobody should be treated like this in my opinion.
I'm going to be a bit of a devil's advocate here and address some basic problems with that video and story. I am approaching this as a frequent traveler who now gets special attention due to permanently sporting some titanium in my body, and also as a former breast feeding and occasional pumping mother...

ok, so first of all, timeline... we have only the word of the folks who put this video together regarding how much time has passed. I personally know that had I been left standing in the little glassed off room for an hour, I would have been sitting on the floor. also, as there are not as many glass exam rooms as there are metal detectors, those rooms have to get cleared and emptied very quickly.

treatment of breastmilk... breastmilk needs to be kept cold after it has been expressed. it could probably set out for about a half hour without worry, but beyond that, it needs to be kept cool. when you are expressing breast milk, you have a nifty little device that you express into that holds bottle inserts. you don't express into a ziplock baggie. human breastmilk is almost light blue in color, similar to skim milk. it would not show up in the video as starkly white as whatever was in that ziploc baggie.

red herrings... it's easy to say someone is pregnant. that woman looked no more pregnant than I am (and I am not, I assure you). saying that she was trying to get home to her one year old child with the breast milk is very disingenuous. as valuable as breast milk is to a nursing mother and child, sometimes you cut your losses and dump it. it would be one thing if she were traveling with a child and the excuse were that she had expressed so she did not have to breast feed on the plane, this I believe is bull. this whole story has more holes than swiss cheese.

I'm sure there are many TSA nightmare tales out there, but lets find the real ones
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I'm going to be a bit of a devil's advocate here and address some basic problems with that video and story. I am approaching this as a frequent traveler who now gets special attention due to permanently sporting some titanium in my body, and also as a former breast feeding and occasional pumping mother...

ok, so first of all, timeline... we have only the word of the folks who put this video together regarding how much time has passed. I personally know that had I been left standing in the little glassed off room for an hour, I would have been sitting on the floor. also, as there are not as many glass exam rooms as there are metal detectors, those rooms have to get cleared and emptied very quickly.

treatment of breastmilk... breastmilk needs to be kept cold after it has been expressed. it could probably set out for about a half hour without worry, but beyond that, it needs to be kept cool. when you are expressing breast milk, you have a nifty little device that you express into that holds bottle inserts. you don't express into a ziplock baggie. human breastmilk is almost light blue in color, similar to skim milk. it would not show up in the video as starkly white as whatever was in that ziploc baggie.

red herrings... it's easy to say someone is pregnant. that woman looked no more pregnant than I am (and I am not, I assure you). saying that she was trying to get home to her one year old child with the breast milk is very disingenuous. as valuable as breast milk is to a nursing mother and child, sometimes you cut your losses and dump it. it would be one thing if she were traveling with a child and the excuse were that she had expressed so she did not have to breast feed on the plane, this I believe is bull. this whole story has more holes than swiss cheese.

I'm sure there are many TSA nightmare tales out there, but lets find the real ones
I think you are pretty much correct on all of your points here.
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pretty much everything I have been saying including that no one really cares about how your body scans look to begin with

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Here's another (lololol) tragedy of airport security.

Man arrested after ejaculating during TSA Patdown.
http://www.deadseriousnews.com/?p=573
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