Hardcore Capitalist's Perspective - 11/17/2010 (TSA Edition)

• CAUGHT IN LIE: Porno-Scanners CAN Save Images
  Just the latest scandal in the long chain of abuse and deception comprising "Gropegate". It turns out the claim that porno-scanners can not save images to a harddrive is a complete lie, as evidenced by a leak of 100 saved nude scans from Orlando, Florida. What's more? An attorney says that the 100 leaked images comprise only a small fraction of the 35,000 saved nude images from that single location.
• Twitter Users Deluge CNN with TSA Question to Obama
  Reddit.com has started a campaign urging Twitter users to Tweet: "@cnn Mr. President: Would you send Michelle/Sasha/Malia through TSA screening? Naked photos or invasive genital groping, you get to pick." It will be interesting to see whether CNN notices this, and attempts to get an answer from the President. How appropriate does Mr. Obama see these latest TSA measures, if they must be applied to him and his own family?
• TSA Aims to Make Life Miserable for Porno-Scan Resister
  John Tyner, the man who only flew through San Diego airport because their website had said they did not employ porno-scanners (yet, when he arrived at the airport, not only were there scanners there after all, but he was pulled out of line to be sent through one of them), and who refused to be either scanned or groped, is now the victim of an $11,000 fine. The TSA is claiming that once he entered the security area, he was not allowed to leave (even though TSA agents told him he was), and that he HAD to be either scanned or groped. If Mr. Tyner DID have a bomb, what good would it have done to drag him back to a crowded area? In any case, this unreasonable fine clearly has nothing to do with keeping anyone secure, and everything to do with scaring citizens into submission.
• TSA Makes Handicapped 4 y.o. Walk Through Security Without Leg Braces
  As someone with a younger sister who has prosthetic feet, the issue of the TSA exposing people's private health conditions for all the world to see has always made my blood boil. This goes beyond the pale, however. But what do we expect when security services are wrenched away from private companies that are accountable to passengers, and placed in the hands of an unaccountable bureaucracy?
• Chertoff Got Sweetheart Deal Selling Porno-Scanners to TSA?
  Turns out the guy making the big bucks selling these porno-scanners to the TSA is none other than old Michael Chertoff. This whole scandal is beginning to stink to high heaven.
• Sen. McCaskill: TSA Groping = "Love Pats"
  The head of the TSA concurs with Ms. Clare McCaskill: the TSA's genital-groping pat downs are "love pats". Despite how creepy that sounds, all I have to say is: if TSA groping = "love pats", then rape = "love making".

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