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2Design Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-10 07:18 PM
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TSA Security Theater or Security
When the gentleman from San Diego stripped to his biker shorts to avoid being molested again, he was told he had to put his clothes back on. http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local-beat/Passenger-Ch... It is obvious from a visual perusal of his body that he has no explosives or other devices on him. If this was REALLY about security that should have been enough. This is no longer about security it is about sexual assault, molesting and power

http://www.freelancetourist.com/security-theater-or-security
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MineralMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-10 08:05 PM
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1. Ah, but he refused to put his clothes back on.
He wasn't forced to do so. He went through the metal detector, then put his clothes back on and went to his gate and flew. There is no rule against flying in a bathing suite, and he knew that in advance. He played his theater, he won, and he flew as he intended to do. His theater trumped the TSA's theater. Security was still maintained. Win-win.
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LisaL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-10 08:08 PM
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2. Well actually he was arrested and never got to his gate.
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MineralMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-10 08:10 PM
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3. Link?
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LisaL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-10 08:14 PM
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4. Here.
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local-beat/Passenger-Chooses-Strip-Down-Over-Pat-Down-109872589.html?dr
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MineralMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-10 08:18 PM
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7. Different guy. I"m talking about the speedo guy today in SLC.
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LisaL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-10 08:20 PM
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8. Well since you are responding to OP
that's the guy which is discussed in the OP.
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-10 08:25 PM
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11. This is SAN DIEGO LINDBERG FIELD
and BIKER SHORTS not speedo
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Bluenorthwest Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-10 08:16 PM
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5. Arrested
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40314284/ns/travel-news/
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MineralMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-10 08:17 PM
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6. I'm talking about the bathing suit guy today, not the
don't touch my junk guy.
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LisaL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-10 08:21 PM
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9. That's not the "don't touch my junk guy" but a different one
who was arrested after he took his clothes off.
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Bluenorthwest Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-10 08:23 PM
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10. I'm talking about the OP, why aren't you?
nt
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CreekDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-10 09:42 PM
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13. then why did you get it wrong?
you've been speaking authoritatively on a number of things which you've been wrong about.
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2Design Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-10 08:57 PM
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12. link is in article and reading it shows this is not the speedo guy nt
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HuckleB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-10 09:43 PM
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14. One does wonder.
Edited on Wed Nov-24-10 09:43 PM by HuckleB
Is this all just a way to distract from something else?
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athena Donating Member (771 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-10 10:26 PM
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15. It's the way bureaucrats and administrators work.
Have you ever tried to reason with a bureaucrat? People who work in jobs like this are not given any decision-making authority. They are told to follow instructions to the letter. Their job is not to use their judgment to ensure that a person does not have anything suspicious attached to their body; their job is to feel his torso to make sure he does not have anything suspicious attached to his body. There is no reason to suspect a conspiracy theory here.
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2Design Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-24-10 10:45 PM
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16. kick n/t
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