{"id":6117,"date":"2010-10-30T11:01:58","date_gmt":"2010-10-30T15:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=6117"},"modified":"2010-10-30T11:03:21","modified_gmt":"2010-10-30T15:03:21","slug":"people-when-faced-with-a-choice-will-inevitably-choose-the-dick-measuring-device-over-molestation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/10\/30\/people-when-faced-with-a-choice-will-inevitably-choose-the-dick-measuring-device-over-molestation\/","title":{"rendered":"“People, when faced with a choice, will inevitably choose the Dick-Measuring Device over molestation”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Air travel, already burdened with far too many special Security Theatre Extravaganzas, is about to get even more awful<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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This past Wednesday, I showed up at Baltimore-Washington International for a flight to Providence, R.I. I had a choice of two TSA screening checkpoints. I picked mine based on the number of people waiting in line, not because I am impatient, but because the coiled, closely packed lines at TSA screening sites are the most dangerous places in airports, completely unprotected from a terrorist attack — a terrorist attack that would serve the same purpose (shutting down air travel) as an attack on board an aircraft.<\/p>\n

[. . .]<\/p>\n

At BWI, I told the officer who directed me to the back-scatter that I preferred a pat-down. I did this in order to see how effective the manual search would be. When I made this request, a number of TSA officers, to my surprise, began laughing. I asked why. One of them — the one who would eventually conduct my pat-down — said that the rules were changing shortly, and that I would soon understand why the back-scatter was preferable to the manual search. I asked him if the new guidelines included a cavity search. “No way. You think Congress would allow that?”<\/p>\n

I answered, “If you’re a terrorist, you’re going to hide your weapons in your anus or your vagina.” He blushed when I said “vagina.”<\/p>\n

“Yes, but starting tomorrow, we’re going to start searching your crotchal area” — this is the word he used, “crotchal” — and you’re not going to like it.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In other words, enough people are refusing to go through the “Dick Measuring Device” that TSA is deliberately going to make the alternative so<\/em> invasive and degrading that people will have<\/em> to go through the back-scatter imager. Not that it will actually improve anyone’s safety, but it will increase the compliance ratio for the next stupid policy to come down from the security theatre directors.<\/p>\n

H\/T to BoingBoing<\/a> for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Air travel, already burdened with far too many special Security Theatre Extravaganzas, is about to get even more awful: This past Wednesday, I showed up at Baltimore-Washington International for a flight to Providence, R.I. I had a choice of two TSA screening checkpoints. I picked mine based on the number of people waiting in line, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10,15,13],"tags":[123,201,202,451],"class_list":["post-6117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-liberty","category-technology","category-usa","tag-aircraft","tag-securitytheatre","tag-travel","tag-tsa"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-1AF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6117"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6121,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6117\/revisions\/6121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}