{"id":5722,"date":"2010-11-22T18:37:31","date_gmt":"2010-11-23T02:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/?p=5722"},"modified":"2010-11-22T18:38:34","modified_gmt":"2010-11-23T02:38:34","slug":"wednesday-november-24-2010-is-national-opt-out-of-tsa-abuse-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2010\/11\/22\/wednesday-november-24-2010-is-national-opt-out-of-tsa-abuse-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday, November 24, 2010 is National Opt Out of TSA Abuse Day"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One would of course want to do more than just ‘opt out’ if a child were treated this way by the frighteningly imbecilic TSA. You know, the regular airport police really don’t much like the TSA people very much and are probably just itching for a good reason to arrest one or two.<\/p>\n

I thought of a possible alternative to the TSA’s threat to arrest or financially penalize people who try to opt out of the full body nude scanners and the groin touching pat down. One could simply opt out of the scanner and then state that although not refusing the pat down a request for local or airport police observation of the pat down procedure is insisted upon because one has a real fear of imminent sexual assault. That would seem to me to put the TSA officers at a serious disadvantage legally and force local police to come to the scene. Just a few episodes like this will really jam up airport gates all across the country and then the hand-job President might get the message that we’re all just fine without hands in our pants.<\/p>\n

At the very least, passengers all across the country should be filming with their cell phones just like the guy in the video above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mature Content One would of course want to do more than just ‘opt out’ if a child were treated this way by the frighteningly imbecilic TSA. You know, the regular airport police really don’t much like the TSA people very much and are probably just itching for a good reason to arrest one or two. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[298,163],"tags":[841,1418,766,840],"class_list":["post-5722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-opinion","tag-full-body-scanner","tag-pat-down","tag-security","tag-tsa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t