As anyone who's flown with me in the past ten years knows: Nothing in modern America makes me as angry as the TSA. NOTHING.
It's not just the body scanners, it's the whole "Papers please", search-and-seizure, guarding-the-barn-door-after-the-horse-got-out mentality. The whole conflation of "security" with "freedom" confounds me. *grits teeth*
The only apparent suggestion for fighting the TSA is to write one's congresspersons, but I feel like I can't do it justice without a full-length opinion piece. My one civil-disobedience fantasy is to go in wearing a jacket with nothing underneath it (on top), and then when they inform me that I have to remove it to put on the conveyor belt, nonchalantly comply.
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Date: 2011-10-04 04:32 am (UTC)It's not just the body scanners, it's the whole "Papers please", search-and-seizure, guarding-the-barn-door-after-the-horse-got-out mentality. The whole conflation of "security" with "freedom" confounds me. *grits teeth*
The only apparent suggestion for fighting the TSA is to write one's congresspersons, but I feel like I can't do it justice without a full-length opinion piece. My one civil-disobedience fantasy is to go in wearing a jacket with nothing underneath it (on top), and then when they inform me that I have to remove it to put on the conveyor belt, nonchalantly comply.
Short of that, I really like this metallic-ink t-shirt of the 4th amendment.
See also:
http://www.thetsachoice.com/
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/11/17/921313/-Why-We-Must-Fight-the-TSA-Updated
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2010/11/-are-any-parts-of-your-body-sore-asks-the-man-from-tsa/65482/
http://fedupflyers.org/