Originally Posted by
mybodyismyown
The TSA doesn't care about us. The TSA is doing the opposite of what we used to mean by protecting someone. They call it safety, but they are shoving their hands down our pants. They call it protecting us, but they humiliate us by examining every inch of our naked bodies. They call it secure, but they order strangers' hands to wander all over the parts of our bodies we gave or will give to our spouses. I weep for this. Please don't mock my sentimentality. The tradition of caring for others by protecting their bodies is very important to me, and I am terrified that it will be gone forever.
It's pretty clear that TSA is operating with a rapist's mentality. They don't care about actually providing security, they just want to exert power over our bodies to show that they can. They are, in that sense, government-sponsored rapists. Child rapists, no less, as evidenced by the gropedown of the six-year-old in New Orleans.
The only thing left to do is fight back with a different kind of sociopathy. If they want to exert power and control over our bodies, we do the same thing to their minds. Torture them emotionally. Verbally abuse them as harshly as possible. Drive them to depression, neurosis and, yes, suicide. Make them truly, honestly believe that they really are subhuman lifeforms who don't deserve dignity, who don't deserve kindness, who don't deserve love. Drive them to the point where they divorce their husbands and wives and throw their children out on the street
because they honestly believe their children would be better off that way than living with them for one more minute.
Revenge is a powerful thing. One person cannot hope to accomplish this kind of psychoemotional destruction on a TSO. Thousands of travelers per airport checkpoint per day, on the other hand, can. Best of all, it's not illegal to just make an offhanded comment about how worthless you think someone is. Multiply it by 1000, though, and 1000 perfectly-legal demonstrations of free speech turn into a mental-health death sentence for the TSOs who would see us subjugated and our bodies made into their playthings. That can be our revenge and it can leave a lasting impression.