"I understand her side of it, and their side as well, but it is for our protection so I have no problems with it," said Gwen Washington, who lives in Killeen.
"It's unfortunate that that happened and she didn't get to fly home, but it makes me feel a little safer," said Emily Protine.
Perhaps some kind person will respond by explaining why this may be an interesting new phenomenon. I'm not young enough to know everything, and I may be missing the key detail that suggests this is more than just another excuse to fire up the Libertarian Echo Chamber :-)
One interesting phenomenon here is people standing up against rape culture.
Another, more generally on the TSA activism, is abuse survivors, Muslins, Sikhs, transgendered people, moms and computer security experts, as well as civil liberties and privacy organizations organizing and standing up for civil liberties.
EPIC's case is the farthest along; the government is trying to delay, but the first hearing may be in December. Plaintiffs include Bruce Schneier and Chip Pitts (Stanford Law professor and former head of Amnesty International USA).
ACLU's part of the "Privacy Coalition" along with EPIC, BORDC, EFF, and a lot of other groups ... they coordinate pretty well on issues like this to avoid duplicated effort.
An ABIA spokesman says it is TSA policy
that anyone activating a security alarm
has two options. One is to opt out and
not fly, and the other option is to subject
themselves to an enhanced pat down.
Extra checking on someone who actually sets off the alarm doesn't seem all that unreasonable.
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[ 4.7 ms ] story [ 23.1 ms ] threadA real person actually said this? Unbelievable.
I guess if rape victims are banned from flying, there will be fewer rapes on airplanes? That is the kind of logic apparently at play.
"I understand her side of it, and their side as well, but it is for our protection so I have no problems with it," said Gwen Washington, who lives in Killeen.
"It's unfortunate that that happened and she didn't get to fly home, but it makes me feel a little safer," said Emily Protine.
"Baaaah, baaaaah.", said Traveler Three
http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
A short-lived one, I hope.
Another, more generally on the TSA activism, is abuse survivors, Muslins, Sikhs, transgendered people, moms and computer security experts, as well as civil liberties and privacy organizations organizing and standing up for civil liberties.
ACLU's part of the "Privacy Coalition" along with EPIC, BORDC, EFF, and a lot of other groups ... they coordinate pretty well on issues like this to avoid duplicated effort.