The Baltimore Sun ran a propaganda piece last week on the TSA. Among other things, they refer to the images produced by the scanners as “fuzzy.” I have one of those images on a T-shirt and wear it around town sometimes, and I must say I often feel it is inappropriate and pornographic (which is why I wear it: the traveling public should know what the TSA goons are seeing). So “fuzzy” is really not a good description of these images.
But I want to point to this exchange (emphasis added):
Sun: Do you see a day when it’s going to be fast and easy to go through airport security again, sort of like the 1960s?
Pistole: The answer is no. But I do see a day when there will be different screening protocols that apply more common sense in the way we do things. Those who pose a greater risk would get more significant screening and those who pose lesser risk would not receive that same thoroughness of screening.
The video below is from before my time (and, yes, before the airline deregulation of the 1970’s, so not an ideal state) so it is totally foreign to me. Air travel has always been stressful for me, and now it is beyond any stress I will willingly take on. And, if the TSA has their way, it will never be stress-free again.
H/T Jeff Keller
