TSA Gives Figurative Middle Finger To Airport Molestation Complaints
Glib response does nothing to address concerns vehemently voiced by numerous prominent travel and pilots associations
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
The TSA has reacted to the burgeoning backlash against airport oppression with a glib response that does nothing to address the multitude of complaints put forward by some of the most prominent travel and pilots associations in the world.
As the New York Times reports today, no less than four major travel organizations have strongly criticized the TSA in recent weeks over increasingly stifling airport security measures that do little to assure safety yet are causing many people to refuse to travel to the United States, costing the industry millions of dollars a year.
“In recent weeks, representatives from the International Air Transport Association, the U.S. Travel Association, the Allied Pilots Association and British Airways have criticized the T.S.A., saying it adds intrusive and time-consuming layers of scrutiny at airport checkpoints, without effectively addressing legitimate security concerns,” states the report.
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As the New York Times reports today, no less than four major travel organizations have strongly criticized the TSA in recent weeks over increasingly stifling airport security measures that do little to assure safety yet are causing many people to refuse to travel to the United States, costing the industry millions of dollars a year.
“In recent weeks, representatives from the International Air Transport Association, the U.S. Travel Association, the Allied Pilots Association and British Airways have criticized the T.S.A., saying it adds intrusive and time-consuming layers of scrutiny at airport checkpoints, without effectively addressing legitimate security concerns,” states the report.
The U.S. Travel Association is warning that onerous and “absurd” security procedures, which are only getting worse with the TSA’s recent move to institute outright groping of passengers that would be considered sexual assault in any other context, are discouraging people from air travel.
Giovanni Bisignani, chief executive of the International Air Transport Association, said that the notion of passengers as guilty until proven innocent was also a complete misnomer.
“Discouraging travelers with queues into the parking lot is not a solution,” Mr. Bisignani said during a speech last week. “And it is not acceptable to treat passengers as terrorists until they prove themselves innocent.”
As we reported yesterday, the largest independent union of airline pilots in the world is also urging its members to boycott body imaging machines currently being rolled out in airports all over the globe, citing dangers of excessive exposure to harmful levels of radiation during the screening process. The announcement by the Allied Pilots Association came after a ExpressJet Airlines, Inc pilot Michael Roberts was detained and suspended for refusing to be scanned.
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Last month, British Airways Chairman Martin Broughton called for the UK to stop mimicking “completely redundant” security measures instituted by the TSA, calling for them to be immediately scrapped.
Longer waits in security queues are causing many to scale back air travel altogether. The Times cites the example of Cornell Professor Dieter Ast, who refuses to submit to naked body scanners.
“I’m not taking as many trips,” Professor Dieter said. “And my European friends are avoiding the U.S. because of the hassle.”
But it’s not just longer waiting times and enhanced groping measures that are causing the outrage, countless examples of abuse and degradation, particularly involving the elderly, the physically disabled, women and children, involving TSA thugs have prompted many potential tourists to refuse to travel to the United States.
As a result of a seemingly deliberate policy to humiliate and demean weaker members of society, US airport security, not just TSA agents but also Homeland Security goons, have attracted an odious reputation globally as something akin to the East German Stasi who controlled border security in pre-perestroika Berlin.
The TSA has responded to the controversy by offering nothing more than a terse email statement which glibly states, “T.S.A. is a counterterrorism agency whose mission is to ensure the safety of the traveling public. To that end, T.S.A. deploys the latest technologies and implements comprehensive procedures that protect passengers while facilitating travel.”
It looks like it’s going to take a raft of lawsuits and compensation claims to scale back TSA tyranny and that’s the course taken by the Electronic Privacy Information Center in its bid to prove that the naked body scanners are dangerous and completely illegal.
Until the TSA realizes that its job is to provide rational and sensible security screening to protect the American people and the vast majority of innocent travelers from the infinitesimal percentage of bad guys that try to board airplanes, and not to treat every single person as not just a terrorist, but in many cases lower than an animal in the levels of abuse metered out, the backlash against airport molestation will continue to build and it will end up costing the US government billions in lost tourism revenue as well as lawsuits against TSA thugs.
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Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show. Watson has been interviewed by many publications and radio shows, including Vanity Fair and Coast to Coast AM, America’s most listened to late night talk show.
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One Response to “TSA Gives Figurative Middle Finger To Airport Molestation Complaints”
Dave72 Says:
November 9th, 2010 at 5:53 am
This is why false flags must be exposed, because if you leave that out of your dialogue when you discuss these matters it remains their ace in the hole that they can pull out at any time in order to justify such fascist policies as this. If they’re able to pull another 9/11 people might welcome the scanners.
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Why do we put up with this? Local law enforcement should deploy to airports, observe the sexual assaults on children and females taking place in public view, and act accordingly. The arrest of a few TSA goons for felony sexual assault and battery would wake them up, and since children are involved, these charges are all the more serious.
Remember, “we have to protect the children.” which has been used for generations now to cram all sorts of laws and regulations down our collective throats. Now it is time for the chickens to come home to roost.
Ending the TSA Insanity thru Boycott
The Congress and Senate are doing nothing to end this trespass on our constitutional rights. The only way we can get them to listen is to strike back at them through their financiers. As it appears they want to restrict our travel, it would not be wise to boycott airlines as the government will just further subsidize them. I am suggesting that other companies are boycotted to the point their stock prices drop until their CEO’s and Board members tell their owned assets in congress to stop the bleeding. I am suggesting a boycott that each week grows with another company name on the list. Within 2 consecutive quarters, the impact will be felt, and those companies listed next will be panic’d to realize the slaves have awoken. Since our congress is not listening to us, let them listen to the executives of:
1. GM- Buy No new vehicles till scanners are removed
2. Chrysler- Buy No new vehicles till scanners are removed
3. Disney- Buy no products or visit the parks or see the movies
4. New York Times- Buy no papers (Perhaps we can identify another advertiser in their paper boycott)
5. FOX news- Stop watching- lowering their Neilsen ratings and thus their price for advertizing on air
After 2 consecutive quarters, let We the people add more to the list- this time we add more companies since the machines may still be in place. I suggest we add:
6. Bank of America- Close all accounts
7. Citigroup- Close all accounts
8. Walmart- No more shopping at ChinaCo
9. Exxon (buy gas but not from here, this will force them to have a surplus and drive their share down)
in 30 days if the machines are still at the airports- add:
10. BP (buy gas but not from here, this will force them to have a surplus and drive their share down)
11. Chevron (buy gas but not from here, this will force them to have a surplus and drive their share down)
Once these companies start seeing their profits disappear they will end the boycott by removing the machines from all airports. IMHO, Cronyism is what led to these machines being put in place, and Cronyism means profit. Take the profits from others in their circles, and those people will clean their own house.
If our votes are not being heard, our Boycott will drive the powers that be into doing the right thing, or our elected officials will lose their campaign contributions.
Ghost of Franklin
Having been recently groped in Boston Logan Airport by the TSA, merely for refusing the body scan (which I fear because of the radiation it delivers) I refuse to fly until the TSA is brought under control. Profile! Profile! Profile! Stop treating innocent travelers like terrorists and criminals. The innocent American citizens are being punished and treated as if they are the terrorists. The victims have become the guilty. Wake up Americans and fight for your rights. Do not fly until the TSA terrorists are brought under control.