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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
it is huge project, but is it the corruption in NYC politics keeping this down? How many mobsters a nd teamsters and racketerering fucks are milking the funds away from the project? How many people have had to get their hands greased just to get this far?
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you're picking on the wrong gangs - this is all due to the corporates and political elites of both parties - power plays by the Port Authority and Shorenstein.
meanwhile, we're distracted from shit like this. The US is a rape culture: now if you want to travel (and they will roll this out further to include buses and trains) you either get photographed naked and irradiated or physically violated. THE TERRORISTS WON!
TSA's Frisky New Pat-Downs
— By
Jen Phillips
| Tue Aug. 24, 2010 1:43 PM PDT
If you're traveling this summer and don't want a TSA agent to see your graphic full-body scan, you might have to opt for a grope. Reports have surfaced that passengers who've refused to go through the TSA's expensive and invasive body scanners have been treated to a more rigerous pat-down. "If anybody ever groped me like that in real life, I would have punched them in their nose,” one male traveler told the
Boston Globe. “It was extremely invasive.. actually probing and pushing and seeing if I was concealing something in my genital area.”
The new "enhanced" pat-downs are different in that screeners are using the front of their hands to probe sensitive areas instead of the backs of their hands as they had previously. Another difference is screeners will use a sliding motion to move their hands over passengers' bodies instead of a patting motion. As one female passenger
said, screeners touched her face, hair, and underneath and between her breasts in their search for weapons. These new pat-downs are currently being used at Boston's Logan airport and Las Vegas's McCarran airport, but the TSA plans to roll them out nationally. And in case there was any doubt, these touchy-feely pat-downs are just for those who refuse to have their bodies scanned. If you go through a regular metal detector,
one source says, you would only get the regular, back-of-hand pat-down.
I can't say which I'd prefer less: being personally probed and prodded by a TSA agent, or having my body graphically scanned knowing the image has the
potential to be saved. Despite the TSA blog's
bold declaration that "TSA has not, will not and the machines cannot store images of passengers at airports," a lawsuit turned up evidence from DHS that the machines had indeed stored more than 2,000 images for "test purposes." The Electronic Privacy Information Center has
filed a motion to immediately halt TSA's use of scanners pending an investigation, but until then, the agency's stance is clear: get scanned or face the consequences.