(NaturalNews) When I recently wrote about opting out of the TSA's naked body scanners and then being patted down by a TSA agent, that pat-down was conducted by the agent using the back of his hand (
http://www.naturalnews.com/030100_naked_body_scanners_airport.html). As of today, that technique is no longer in place. The TSA's new guidelines call for agents to use their "palms and fingers" to "probe" your body for hidden weapons. This means TSA agents will now be feeling up your crotch, palming your breasts and fingering your testicles as part of their increasingly humiliating "X-rated pat down" technique.
This new "palms and fingers" pat-down technique (also known as "groping" passengers) was announced by the TSA last week alongside an ambitious new plan to roll out
1,000 new naked body scanners by 2011. Any air traveler who opts out of the naked body scanner, of course, gets groped by a TSA agent using the new "palms and fingers" pat-down technique.
The upshot is that the TSA either wants to SEE your naked body or FEEL it with their hands.
This new rule also affects pilots, by the way. And just yesterday, ABC News carried a report about a U.S. pilot who said was so upset by the enhanced pat-down technique that he called it
sexual molestation and found that afterwards, he could not safely operate the airplane. (
http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/major-pilots-unions-rebel-tsa-screening-...)
So now we have the TSA actually
terrorizing pilots and turning them into angry, abused victims of sexual molestation who must then fly our airplanes. How's that for TSA safety?
Violating the privacy rights of Americans
All this is a gross violation of Americans' Fourth Amendment rights, of course. It's also demeaning and (intentionally) humiliating to air travelers. In addition, the use of naked body scanners on children
violates child porn laws.
The
TSA, through its groping of passengers and the capturing of their naked body images, is guilty of committing numerous felony crimes. If a security guard at a grocery store, for example, groped little children with his fingers and took "naked
body scanner" pictures of customers, he would be arrested as a
sex crime offender. So why are we letting our own federal government commit sex crimes against us when we'd be thrown in prison for the same lewd behavior?
There are actually
registered sex offenders on the books who have done far less than what the TSA is doing to air travelers right now.
The TSA, even more insidiously, doesn't even tell
passengers they have a choice to opt out of the naked body scanners. When I first wrote about it, most NaturalNews readers had no idea they could opt out. Even the opt-out process seems to be designed to bring humiliation to passengers, because once you announce you're opting out of the naked body scanners, TSA agents yell, "Opt out! Opt out!" in order to draw attention to you. Following that, they now feel up your crotch and private parts with their fingers and palms.
The message is clear:
Go through the naked body scanner or we will sexually molest you.That's the new TSA... always watching your back by feeling your genitals first.
Ratcheting up the police state
And it's only getting worse. That TSA agents feel your crotch and breasts with their palms and fingers would have been unthinkable just five years ago. But this is how a police state works: They introduce one element at a time and then wait for everybody to get used to it before adding another layer of intrusion to their lives.
Today it's a naked body scanner and an X-rated feel-up. Five years from now, it could be TSA agents stripping off your clothes in a private screening room and inserting their fingers into your anus and other areas to check for "weapons." If the American people don't start standing up to these illegal, intrusive and humiliating body searches, there's no end to where
the TSA could take this. Give an agency like the TSA
unlimited power to bully the public, and they will inevitably keep pushing the limits until they are stopped.
None of this seems to have anything whatsoever to do with actual air travel security, by the way. It all seems focused on maximizing the humiliation of air travelers while indoctrinating people into a police state mentality (so they get used to government agents strip-searching them on demand).
This is the new Amerika. Your Constitutional rights have been thrown out the window. Any expectation that you might be treated with respect as a law-abiding citizen have been utterly abandoned. You are now treated as a
slavilian (a slave / civilian), and the federal government believes it has the right to commit sex crimes against you and your children any time it wishes.
Even our airline pilots are treated as criminals and terrorized by the very agency that claims to be protecting us from terrorism!
The TSA is the new Gestapo, and they will absolutely will not stop with these police state tactics until they are forced to.
It is time that We the People stood up against the
TSA Gestapo and started suing their agents for sexual molestation, child pornography, kidnapping, conspiracy and violating our Fourth Amendment rights.
If you have any tips about anyone attempting to sue the TSA, please contact NaturalNews through our feedback form:
http://www.naturalnews.com/feedback.htmlWe intend to keep covering this story until this
TSA tyranny is halted.
About the author: Mike Adams is a natural health author and award-winning journalist with a strong interest in personal health, the environment and the power of nature to help us all heal He is a prolific writer and has published thousands of articles, interviews, reports and consumer guides, and he has created several downloadable courses on survival and preparedness, including his widely-downloaded course on personal safety and self-defense. Adams is an independent journalist with strong ethics who does not get paid to write articles about any product or company. In mid 2010, Adams produced TV.NaturalNews.com, a natural health video sharing website offering user-generated videos on nutrition, green living, fitness and more. He also founded an environmentally-friendly online retailer called BetterLifeGoods.com that uses retail profits to help support consumer advocacy programs. He's also a noted pioneer in the email marketing software industry, having been the first to launch an HTML email newsletter technology that has grown to become a standard in the industry. Adams also serves as the executive director of the Consumer Wellness Center, a non-profit consumer protection group, and practices nature photography, Capoeira, martial arts and organic gardening. Known as the 'Health Ranger,' Adams' personal health statistics and mission statements are located at www.HealthRanger.org
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