Originally Posted by
coccobill352
It is of course wrong. But when we hear of underwear bombs, people smashing planes into buildings and other people ready to cut innocent people's throat just because you are French or American, the perspective changes a bit. If the machine says you are suspected of carrying dangerous substances, you need to be checked, also in your private parts if necessary, according of course to written procedures and protocols insuring that things are lawfully done. It's a consequence of the world we live nowadays. As a fellow passenger furthermore, I wouldn't feel safe to go on a plane with somebody who set off an explosive detector and is not then carefully checked and questioned.
You can't have it both ways: either it is wrong or it is o.k. to sexually assault passengers.
We don't know if the groping is done "lawfully" because the TSA won't allow any complaints about these procedures to get before a Court of law.
I contend that the private room gropes are not lawful because administrative searches are to be done in public and the TSA is not allowed to do any kind of a search other than an administrative search.
TSA needs to develop a new procedure for checking passengers for explosives, especially in light of the fact NEVER have they found a passenger carrying explosives who has alarmed the ETD. They need to develop a test that does not alarm on glycerins from hand soap, nor on nitrates from fertilizers.
Actually, if the nude-o-scopes worked, the solution would be to send passengers through the WBS after an alarm. By not doing so, the TSA is admitting that the WBS do not do the job that we were told they would do which is find hidden WEI.