Second Class Citizens

Thursday 10 January 2013 - Filed under Uncategorized

HuffPo with an exposé on how the TSA actively seeks to fuck those who choose to opt-out of the full-body scanners:

The TSA likes to talk about the “haves” — the elite-level frequent fliers, the soldiers in uniform, the crewmembers, who can now almost always bypass the scanners, the shoe-removal and the pat-downs, and get to the gate quickly. It’s received a lot of positive coverage from an unskeptical mainstream media about those programs.

But it doesn’t really say much about the “have-nots” — the passengers with medical conditions and implants that set off the magnetometers, the folks who don’t fly frequently enough to be part of the Pre-Check club and yeah, the opt-outs.

Actually, opt-outs are arguably the biggest segment of the new passenger underclass. The TSA doesn’t release statistics on air travelers who refuse a full-body scan, but anecdotal evidence suggests their numbers are large and growing.

Let’s take a closer look at how the TSA treats opt-outs as second class citizens.

Active steps taken to make a person’s flying experience as inconvenient as possible. They want to shame people in to compliance. It’s fucking sick.

2013-01-10  »  madlibertarianguy