2010-11-17 09:27![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
digitaldiscipline
digitaldisciplineSo, I wrote my Congressional Representative and both senators (and senator-elect) this morning.
They get my unfiltered attitude, just like everyone else:
I trust you have heard no small amount of discontent over the TSA's invasive and potentially harmful new "enhanced screening" techniques, which, for lack of a more tactful description, have earned the name "Scope or Grope."
Further exacerbating this is the TSA's own guidance to make the enhanced pat-downs as punitive and shame-inducing for the recipients as possible, to make people unwilling to submit to them.
To be blunt: WE DO NOT LIVE IN A COLD-WAR, COMMUNIST BLOC TOTALITARIAN STATE. WE LIVE IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. LET'S DO OUR BEST TO REMEMBER AND ACT LIKE IT.
The new TSA groping patdown regulations:
http://drwho.virtadpt.net/archive/2010/11/14/the-people-said-no-more-and-the-tsa-said-shut-your-pie-holes
These regulations hurt everybody. We should not have to choose between using potentially unsafe (and naked) imaging machines and/or submitting to having private areas like buttocks and genitals fondled in the name of security. Invasive is an understatement.
Please strike down this onerous bullshit.
Thank you.
They get my unfiltered attitude, just like everyone else:
I trust you have heard no small amount of discontent over the TSA's invasive and potentially harmful new "enhanced screening" techniques, which, for lack of a more tactful description, have earned the name "Scope or Grope."
Further exacerbating this is the TSA's own guidance to make the enhanced pat-downs as punitive and shame-inducing for the recipients as possible, to make people unwilling to submit to them.
To be blunt: WE DO NOT LIVE IN A COLD-WAR, COMMUNIST BLOC TOTALITARIAN STATE. WE LIVE IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. LET'S DO OUR BEST TO REMEMBER AND ACT LIKE IT.
The new TSA groping patdown regulations:
http://drwho.virtadpt.net/archive/2010/11/14/the-people-said-no-more-and-the-tsa-said-shut-your-pie-holes
These regulations hurt everybody. We should not have to choose between using potentially unsafe (and naked) imaging machines and/or submitting to having private areas like buttocks and genitals fondled in the name of security. Invasive is an understatement.
Please strike down this onerous bullshit.
Thank you.
