Notes From the Road…

I’m sitting in the Cincinnati Northern Kentucky International Airport as I write this, and I am literally watching as a white middle aged nun stand with her feet spread apart, arms raised above her head, standing spread eagle in the naked scanner. Aside from being amused, I'm eager to write this, not because of what I’m observing, but because of what I heard a lady say as I stood in line waiting to board a flight to Philadelphia earlier today. 

It was in this line that I heard a lady loudly profess her lack of understanding for all those who are incensed at the ability of TSA agents to view their figures in a state of undress. Her direct quote, made as she sneered at the uneducated masses was, “haven’t they ever taken biology?” I nearly challenged her to strip naked right then and there, and board the aircraft in the buff, after all I have taken biology and thus I am qualified to see her naked. 

This is just a snapshot of the thinking out there. So eager and willing are we to allow extreme measures for the sake of security, but yet Janet Napolitano, Secretary of Homeland Security today said that screening 100 % of air cargo isn’t the way to go. Well thanks for informing the thousands of terrorist out there Madam Secretary, that we aren’t THAT serious about flight safety. 

Imagine getting on an aircraft to fly you and your family across the sea for holiday just to find out that the cargo that sits just below you hasn’t been screened, but yet you and your family have been virtually stripped searched. How safe do you feel? Isn’t safety why we are subjecting ourselves to all of this in the first place? Just how serious is DHS about our security. 

The problem that we are facing in America is that the naked scanners and the TSA are the LAST LINES OF DEFENSE! Should every Americans have to be screened if the government were doing its job in the first place? How about keeping an eye on these so called “student visas”, or closing the borders so that anybody cant just walk across them. Why aren’t we questioning how a terrorist can purchase explosives,  buy a ticket and even make it to the airport without authorities being tipped off? Is our intelligence community that inept? Because that’s the message that I’m getting right now. If the only thing keeping us from being attacked are a few thousand 16 dollar an hour, non law enforcement, walkie talkie toting, blue clad wonders, then America we’ve got a problem. And perhaps the naked scanner is the least of our worries. 

Just wait till our first shopping mall is blown up, county fair, or ball game. Perhaps I should buy a few shares of whoever makes the naked scanner, because rest assured they will be deployed at every public facility as a deterrent to terrorism. I mean why shouldn’t they, obviously our government cant stop these guys, so this is the only to keep us safe.

 

The tongue and cheekyness of the above article should not be disregarded. It was meant to be.

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Message From Our Staff

The news is not new, on Wednesday November 24th, a group of very astute Americans have called for all travelers to "opt out" of the so called naked-scanners.  We at www.stopgropingme.com, have joined the movement and invite all travelers to enjoy our Stop Groping Me apparel, while standing up to our government.

Why do we feel so strongly about our position? Its simple really. Privacy. Quite frankly I object like so many Americans to the idea, of non-law enforcement personnel gazing upon my glorious naked body. Why are we willing to give up every ounce of dignity for the simple task of boarding an aircraft? Many argue that our security is ultimately more important than our privacy. Can this be? I dont think so, and neither does the rest of America.

 The Department of Homeland Security is extremely reactive, perhaps with good reason, perhaps without. The Shoe Bomber makes an attempt to interrupt a flight by exploding his shoes, shoes are now required to be scanned. It becomes clear that perhaps terrorist can use liquids to prepare explosives onboard an aircraft... and at once liquids are banned, and eventually confined to 3 oz per bottle. Ask yourself, how many terrorist does it take to compile 21 oz of liquid? The answer...7. So by restricting the size of my toothpaste tube, DHS has done absolutely nothing but increase the sales of what ever company makes those cute little travel sized lotions, shampoos and toothpaste.  And let's not even talk about the sandwich bag scheme. At first it was meant to control quantity, but you know what I found out the hard way? As it turns out, one 3oz bottle of cologne must be thrown out if its not in the all protecting bomb proof sandwich bag, even if that's the only liquid travelling with you. Next, the terrorist sneak bombs into their underwear...enter "naked scanner." Next the terrorist chose printer cartridges, predictably less than a week later printer cartridges were banned. 

So here we are, DHS has reacted to every move the terrorist have made, tit for tat. They try something, we respond by making more restrictions on American citizens. Its time to get mad, and getting naked to fly is my tipping point. The irony of it all is that the very planes for which we are giving up our privacy and stripping down to our underwear to board, are being loaded with bombs that have gotten by undetected. All of this indignity, all of the privacy rights that we have thrown out the window for the sake of safety, and as it turns out we aren't all that safe after all. I won't stand for it; no TSA agent will see me naked. They may grope if they chose, but I will protest that as well.  Let's make a stand, here and now. Folks, stop rolling over and letting our government infringe on the values we as Americans hold dear. Tell the TSA and DHS to Stop Groping Me!