Originally Posted by
littlesheep
I don't want to be irradiated by machines whose safety is not tested, whose radiation is not calibrated by any professional and which are suspected of increasing the risk of skin cancer. I also do not want images of my naked body to be on display to anyone who is not a physician, nurse or radiation tech.
I don't want any stranger touching my hair, breasts, buttocks, inner thigh and genitals. I don't want any stranger peering inside my pants.
I'd rather die. Is that clear?
Can you use that to 'improve how TSOs interact with passengers'?
Some Feedback for Bart the TSO
@Bart - if you want some feedback, here is some from me. Now, I don't dislike anyone (including the TSA) and I agree that we should have some security at the airports. That being said, no agency, police, FBI, or TSA, can prevent EVERY bad thing from happening.
At the airports, why can't we have metal detectors, dogs that can detect explosives, and the use of wands as a secondary search? Also, the airlines could maybe look at the travel records and background of people on the no-fly list. If someone has been to Yemen or some other "terrorist" country 50 times in the last year, has had lots of money activity in a bank account that is suspected to have terrorist ties, they are a member of some rebel islamic extremist group and they have a webpage stating that they hate americans, then yes, we could perhaps profile that person. I don't think people realize that profiling is not just based on skin color, it can be used to track other criteria that the average innocent Muslim passenger is not going to be involved in.
Yes, sometimes the terrorists might use sleeper people or people we would not suspect but hopefully, we can stop them another way. If someone bad were to get on a plane and try something, the passengers would fight back and some may even die "heroically" fighting the bad guy. Didn't that already happen on one of the 9/11 hijacked flights? You hear stories of people who risk their lives to rescue other people. Don't the police and firemen do that every day? There is no such thing as 100% absolute security.
The risk of dying in a terrorist attack is not that large when compared to other risks such as dying in a car accident, a tornado, an earthquake, a flood, or from a horrible transmittable disease, etc. The police can not prevent all murderers from killing people. The government can not possibly prevent all terrorist attacks. Does that mean that we should all live in fear and over react? Why can't we just live our lives and not live in fear? Aren't we supposed to be the land of the brave and FREE?
@Bart - the next time you see one of your tso's "yelling" at a passenger, put yourself in our shoes and try to see how we feel. We don't know the rules (such as what is allowed, private room searches, what kind of touching we can expect). It's not a fun "game" to play when we don't even know what is expected of us. Most of us are just scared of the tso's. Lots of people do not want a stranger touching them or looking at them naked. I think many children would be freaked out by the new procedures. Our country is filled with smart people and universities, I'm sure someone can invent a non-invasive machine that can detect explosives without it being so offensive or contain radiation or microwave waves. The metal detectors worked amazingly well for the past 10 years after 9/11!!!!!
Thank you, Bart. Maybe you can be the one person who might be able to make a difference. I wish you a good day.