Post by lighthorseman on Oct 30, 2011 6:42:55 GMT -5
2 reasons I, as a non American, have a serious fucking issue with the excesses of the TSA;
1. One day vaguely soon, I would like to travel to the USA, and this sort of shit does NOT encourage me.
2. Ever since "9/11", every stupid, kneejerk reactionary window dressing security measure adopted in the US instantly gets touted as something that Australia "needs", by some slack brained populist Australian politician.
So what are the latest outrages? Check this crap out...
1. One day vaguely soon, I would like to travel to the USA, and this sort of shit does NOT encourage me.
2. Ever since "9/11", every stupid, kneejerk reactionary window dressing security measure adopted in the US instantly gets touted as something that Australia "needs", by some slack brained populist Australian politician.
So what are the latest outrages? Check this crap out...
"Just unpacked my suitcase and found this note from TSA," tweets writer and attorney Jill Filipovic of Feministe. "Guess they discovered a 'personal item' in my bag. Wow."
It was a standard-issue we got all up in your baggagebusiness Transportation Security Administration Notice of Inspection (NOI), but with these handwritten words in pen, overlaid: "GET YOUR FREAK ON GIRL."
"Total violation of privacy, wildly inappropriate and clearly not ok," Filipovic writes in a post titled Your Tax Dollars at Work, "but I also just died laughing in my hotel room."
boingboing.net/2011/10/24/tsa-goes-through-womans-luggage-finds-sex-toy-leaves-pervy-note.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&dlvrit=36761
See the note at the link.
It was a standard-issue we got all up in your baggagebusiness Transportation Security Administration Notice of Inspection (NOI), but with these handwritten words in pen, overlaid: "GET YOUR FREAK ON GIRL."
"Total violation of privacy, wildly inappropriate and clearly not ok," Filipovic writes in a post titled Your Tax Dollars at Work, "but I also just died laughing in my hotel room."
boingboing.net/2011/10/24/tsa-goes-through-womans-luggage-finds-sex-toy-leaves-pervy-note.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&dlvrit=36761
See the note at the link.
Seth Goldberg says that when he opened his suitcase in San Diego after a flight from Seattle this month, the two "No Iraq War" signs he'd picked up at the Pike Place Market were still nestled among his clothes.
But there was a third sign, he said, that shocked him. Tucked in his luggage was a card from the Transportation Security Administration notifying him that his bags had been opened and inspected at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. Handwritten on the side of the card was a note, "Don't appreciate your anti-American attitude!"
"I found it chilling and a little Orwellian to have received this message," said Goldberg, 41, a New Jersey resident who was in Seattle visiting longtime friend Davis Oldham, a University of Washington instructor.
Goldberg says that when he took his suitcase off the airplane in San Diego, the zipper pulls were sealed with nylon straps, which indicated TSA had inspected the luggage. It would be hard, he said, for anyone else to have gotten inside his bags.
seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/134653764_tsasign15m.html
But there was a third sign, he said, that shocked him. Tucked in his luggage was a card from the Transportation Security Administration notifying him that his bags had been opened and inspected at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. Handwritten on the side of the card was a note, "Don't appreciate your anti-American attitude!"
"I found it chilling and a little Orwellian to have received this message," said Goldberg, 41, a New Jersey resident who was in Seattle visiting longtime friend Davis Oldham, a University of Washington instructor.
Goldberg says that when he took his suitcase off the airplane in San Diego, the zipper pulls were sealed with nylon straps, which indicated TSA had inspected the luggage. It would be hard, he said, for anyone else to have gotten inside his bags.
seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/134653764_tsasign15m.html
