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Originally Posted by RichieLion
Cologal; thank you for your thorough explanation of the stress flying with medical implants is. I can't even imagine the courage of someone who history also includes abuse. I've never been entirely comfortable with doctors touching me in certain places, but to let some blue collar bubba touch me because my implants set off his alarm, or he just feels like it, is more than I can tolerate.
My wife, like Tbugs evidently, is able bodied and mostly has the same stress free "what extra security" flying experience. She's not happy that I get this heart racing with chills thing just anticipating what's going to happen, but it is what it is, and I am who I am.
(I have to add this, I apologize for repeating myself)
Also if, and only if, any aspiring terrorist is going through the backscatter imaging system TSA might, and only might, notice something out of sorts. But if the device is implanted in a body cavity or surgically implanted the terrorist is home free. All 4th Amendment violations and hundreds of millions of tech dollars spent notwithstanding.
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I am sorry Richie. I still don't get it. And sorry too Cologal that you have to go through this and it causes you so much anxiety.
There are terrorists and these procedures can help us fly safely or at least a little safer. I think that the procedures are for the greater good and for greater safety. Are they fail safe? Probably not. But you can't just let them think that we aren't tryin'.
Helene has metal wiring in her sternum from a heart surgery. I would never think that she was being targeted.
I cannot believe that every person working for the TSA or a majority of people working for the TSA or a lot of people working for the TSA are sex deviates.
I see that it is your political stance and even your heartfelt belief against government intervention, when not needed and I am trying to see it from your side.
Cologal flies a lot and Richie you don't fly.
Could it just be possible, that most of these people who work for the TSA are just ordinary folks with a job to do?
I do not understand all this fear. At least that is how it feels to me when I read these posts. Fear.
Could you allow yourself to think, just for one moment that these procedures are helping...even a little?
In a perfect world, the one we grew up in even, this wouldn't be necessary. Unfortunately it is.