Comments on: Why I Don’t Mind IF TSA Employees See An Outline of My Penis http://trueslant.com/conorfriedersdorf/2009/12/29/why-i-dont-mind-if-tsa-employees-see-an-outline-of-my-penis/ [Please go to 'Settings' to change your Tagline] Thu, 02 May 2013 14:41:20 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: ghowardjr http://trueslant.com/conorfriedersdorf/2009/12/29/why-i-dont-mind-if-tsa-employees-see-an-outline-of-my-penis/comment-page-1/#comment-269 ghowardjr Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:46:12 +0000 http://trueslant.com/conorfriedersdorf/?p=297#comment-269 Again, it seems to me that this entire conversation misses the point. Body scanners and the like are just another infringement upon our civil liberties. The federal government believes that treating everyone like criminals equally makes it OK to violate our rights, and people just allow it because they are afraid of the terrorist boogeymen. If you continue to give up your rights in return for supposed security, you will end up with neither. As evidenced by eight years of us being subjected to post-911 “security” at airports and still have a guy with a bomb get on a plane–thwarted only by a faulty ignition mechanism–not by our gigantic homeland security department or TSA airport security. Wake up! Again, it seems to me that this entire conversation misses the point. Body scanners and the like are just another infringement upon our civil liberties.

The federal government believes that treating everyone like criminals equally makes it OK to violate our rights, and people just allow it because they are afraid of the terrorist boogeymen.

If you continue to give up your rights in return for supposed security, you will end up with neither. As evidenced by eight years of us being subjected to post-911 “security” at airports and still have a guy with a bomb get on a plane–thwarted only by a faulty ignition mechanism–not by our gigantic homeland security department or TSA airport security.

Wake up!

]]> By: Full Body Scanners Revisited - Conor Friedersdorf - Metablog - True/Slant http://trueslant.com/conorfriedersdorf/2009/12/29/why-i-dont-mind-if-tsa-employees-see-an-outline-of-my-penis/comment-page-1/#comment-257 Full Body Scanners Revisited - Conor Friedersdorf - Metablog - True/Slant Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:08:29 +0000 http://trueslant.com/conorfriedersdorf/?p=297#comment-257 [...] Mathis at Philadelphia Weekly has been kind enough to respond to my recent post on full body airport scanners: Conor Friedersdorf chalked the opposition to scanners up to [...] [...] Mathis at Philadelphia Weekly has been kind enough to respond to my recent post on full body airport scanners: Conor Friedersdorf chalked the opposition to scanners up to [...]

]]> By: friedersl http://trueslant.com/conorfriedersdorf/2009/12/29/why-i-dont-mind-if-tsa-employees-see-an-outline-of-my-penis/comment-page-1/#comment-252 friedersl Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:12:58 +0000 http://trueslant.com/conorfriedersdorf/?p=297#comment-252 I too detest lines. I don't want to do the naked gauntlet thing because of the time it would take to undress and redress. It annoys me every time I have to take off and put on my shoes! I would prefer an outline of my body to adding Stupid new regulations about carry-ons, lead time sitting in the airport, and PC rules that dictate that my 81 year old 5' tall lily white mother gets "secondary" searched as often as a 30-year-old turban-wearing obviously Middle-Eastern male. Let sanity rule. I too detest lines. I don’t want to do the naked gauntlet thing because of the time it would take to undress and redress. It annoys me every time I have to take off and put on my shoes! I would prefer an outline of my body to adding Stupid new regulations about carry-ons, lead time sitting in the airport, and PC rules that dictate that my 81 year old 5′ tall lily white mother gets “secondary” searched as often as a 30-year-old turban-wearing obviously Middle-Eastern male. Let sanity rule.

]]> By: Caitlin Kelly http://trueslant.com/conorfriedersdorf/2009/12/29/why-i-dont-mind-if-tsa-employees-see-an-outline-of-my-penis/comment-page-1/#comment-249 Caitlin Kelly Wed, 30 Dec 2009 13:35:33 +0000 http://trueslant.com/conorfriedersdorf/?p=297#comment-249 Exactly. Exactly.

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