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| Subject: Statist molesters: When does airport security become physical assault? Sun Aug 14, 2011 7:08 am | |
| With the holiday season underway, intimate security checks at American airports are continuing to upset travellers.
When passengers refuse the full body scanners they may be submitted to what authorities are calling an enhanced pat-down.
Politicians are calling for them to be outlawed but the department of justice has threatened that flights whose passengers are not screened will be cancelled.
Nancy Campbell, a 33-year-old from Brooklyn, compared the experience to being "sexually assaulted".
She had been rushing to board an early morning flight to Washington from New York's La Guardia airport when she was selected for a check at the gate by a female official from the US Transportation Security Administration or TSA.
"[The official] asked me to spread my arms and my legs... and she explained that she would check me from the outside of my arms and the outside of my legs first and then proceed with the inside.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/fast_track/9561167.stm _________________ Anarcho-Capitalist, AnCaps Forum, Ancapolis, OZschwitz Contraband “The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime.”-- Max Stirner "Remember: Evil exists because good men don't kill the government officials committing it." -- Kurt Hofmann |
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