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Originally Posted by graciegirl
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.
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You're a very nice human being Gracie. I know you like to think the best of everyone and hope they do the same.
I'm a bit more pessimistic, especially when it comes to average people put in the position of almost unlimited power over another person's body.
Cologal and I are relating personal stories. It doesn't really matter if it's a deviant or schlub, I don't want his hands on the private parts of my body, period. I don't want to go through the "God knows how much radiation we're really being exposed to" naked imaging scan.
If you're fine with strangers touching you, for whatever reason they've pulled you out of line that you cannot ask about, that's your business and your decision. I cannot change how I feel about it.
I don't fly, not because I don't want to. It's because I can't and therefore i won't. I guess I'll be seeing my family a lot less than I thought before I moved 1,000 miles away.
Do I think these procedures are helping? No, not really. Unless you mean helping to enlarge the government and their control over the population. First the airports, then the rail lines, then the shopping malls, etc. etc. They're even developing rolling scans that will be placed in vehicles with the purpose of naked scanning people walking the streets; all for the security of something or another.
Also, and this is a big also. I keep bringing up the fact that people are also subjecting their CHILDREN to this. No one who's answered me in these forums ever mentions the CHILDREN that are also be told by their parents that..............
"Mommy, Daddy, your Doctor and the people in the blue uniforms with badges at the airport are the only people who are allowed to touch you in your private areas." (for now)