6 year old girl groped then drug tested by TSA

"They don't want a showdown with the public, they want to see what they can get away with. That's the only meaningful purpose for the TSA.

You exist to furnish the tables of your owners, don't ever forget it."

 

Well said.  And that is exactly why we need to keep having protest TSA days.

Americans are so anal about interpersonal contact its amazing. 

I know right?  Its like, so what if my hand is resting on the zipper of your pants?  I know you wouldn't get pissed about it, but Americans...sheesh.  This one time on the subway I asked a little boy if he wanted to sit on my lap instead of stand.  You should've seen the look on his mothers face.  She was just too anal about interpersonal contact.  I mean, if you had kids I'm sure you would let me touch them all sorts of ways.

 

Here's a girl half her age:

 

And here's what happens to little boys after they get OFF a train...

EconomistInTraining:

[...] Americans are so anal about interpersonal contact its amazing. 

Wait, was a pun intended?

I know right?  Its like, so what if my hand is resting on the zipper of your pants?  I know you wouldn't get pissed about it, but Americans...sheesh.  This one time on the subway I asked a little boy if he wanted to sit on my lap instead of stand.  You should've seen the look on his mothers face.  She was just too anal about interpersonal contact.  I mean, if you had kids I'm sure you would let me touch them all sorts of ways.

Oh come on, it's a little different. The point is that only in America would the any considerable number of people assume that TSA agents are in their current line of employment because they like "groping" random individuals. Here's the reality, most people are ugly, throw a few hours of travelling into the mix and the understable lack of effort most people put into their appearance when they go onto planes and I feel more sympathy for TSA agents than I do for their "victims".

 

@EconomidtInTraining

Your name wouldn't happen to be Janet Napolitano, would it?

S'different because they have a badge and they're only doing it out of paranoia that someone might be smuggling a bomb in your child's crotch.

Totally different.

Pedophiles aren't necessarily psychotic, you see.

 

Oh come on, it's a little different. The point is that only in America would the any considerable number of people assume that TSA agents are in their current line of employment because they like "groping" random individuals. Here's the reality, most people are ugly, throw a few hours of travelling into the mix and the understable lack of effort most people put into their appearance when they go onto planes and I feel more sympathy for TSA agents than I do for their "victims".

I don't think that TSA agents are in the biz just to touch kids, but thats not what I was taking issue with.  My issue was that you seem to relegate yourself the authority of how much personal contact is acceptable for not just yourself and your family, but for everyone. 

To be honest, we are probably in agreement that most of these TSA stories are sensationalist and recruiting tools for libertarians, but seriously, realize that people have different comfort zones.

mikachusetts:

Oh come on, it's a little different. The point is that only in America would the any considerable number of people assume that TSA agents are in their current line of employment because they like "groping" random individuals. Here's the reality, most people are ugly, throw a few hours of travelling into the mix and the understable lack of effort most people put into their appearance when they go onto planes and I feel more sympathy for TSA agents than I do for their "victims".

I don't think that TSA agents are in the biz just to touch kids, but thats not what I was taking issue with.  My issue was that you seem to relegate yourself the authority of how much personal contact is acceptable for not just yourself and your family, but for everyone. 

To be honest, we are probably in agreement that most of these TSA stories are sensationalist and recruiting tools for libertarians, but seriously, realize that people have different comfort zones.

 

I don't think the effects of adverse selection should be ignored. Most foster parents are not child abusers but the ideal situation for a child abuser is to become a foster parent. That's not an indictment of foster parenting, per se, it's an indictment of the legal system which has created the need for foster parents to begin with. Most TSA agents are not sexual deviants but an ideal situation for a sexual deviant who gets excitement from touching and/or viewing naked random strangers is to become a TSA patdown/scanning agent.

 

And I fully agree with you that EiT has certainly implied that his sensibilities regarding what amount of touching is acceptable should be universal. Such dogmatism is laughable in the modern world. The irony is that he thinks the average American is unsophisticated by comparison to himself.

 

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