Coming Soon to an Airport Near You ... Prison-style strip searches?
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GoogleYou've heard about the passenger
who opted out of a full-body scan (a.k.a. "a virtual strip search")
and was subjected to an intrusive and humiliating pat down. "If you
touch my junk, I'll have you arrested," passenger John Tyner told
Transportation Security Administration workers in San Diego.
Well, rest easy, John-and other passengers offended by both
full-body scans and hands-on searches.
TSA won't touch your junk-or your breasts or buttocks. If they
begin to strip search passengers as if they're prison inmates,
they'll do just what correctional officers do: They'll make
you do all the nasty work.
What follows is an excerpt from a training video for prison guards
on how to make sure that inmates aren't hiding contraband.
The video makes for extremely uncomfortable watching and viewer
discretion-and outrage-is advised. After all, this may well be the
next step in how the TSA, one of the
least effective and efficient government agencies of all time,
goes about its daily business.
Approximately 2.43 minutes.
Written and produced by Ted Balaker and Nick Gillespie.
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