Red Menace!!: To the Government, "No" Means "Force": The New TSA Regulations and Government-Sanctioned Sexual Assault

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I'm a Public Leader, Community Organizer, and Community Builder. And I'm also an Anarcha-Socialist who fights to eliminate capitalism and other political, social, and economic hierarchies to create a society without institutions where all people have equal access to knowledge and production, emphasizes trade unions and decentralized methods of direct democracy, and finds any institutional form to be abusive. And I'm a Radical Feminist who believes the cause of women's oppression to be within patriarchy and the cause of all oppression to be in the mimicked hierarchical structures such as capitalism and amerikkkanism and globalism and colonialism and imperialism and jesusgodism which means society needs to be recreated and not changed cuz change just rearranges the same shit in a different order. And I'm a Secular Humanist who believes we got ourselves into this mess and can only rely on ourselves to get the hell out. And I'm Mestiza-Classed: the educated working-class wonder! And a Lezbian Queer Dyke Cunt Lover. An active activist social change agent iconoclastic catalyst. A VOICE with capital letters that stand tall and out and above and are heard and seen...always an outspoken mouth on the pretty face of the strong head of an independent woman. I'm an individual within the collective. And a Revolution! I'm a ReVoLuTiOn! and revolutionizer. A riotous redhead. THE Red Menace!

Sunday, November 14, 2010

To the Government, "No" Means "Force": The New TSA Regulations and Government-Sanctioned Sexual Assault

So the new TSA regulations for airport security = Government-Sanctioned Sexual Assault and Extreme Government Infringement on Privacy.

The new regulations demand that fliers - regardless of age - must go through a "naked machine" that uses radiation to view someone naked under their clothes. An image is taken and kept on file with the government. If fliers refuse to do this, they are taken aside and in front of everyone, are pat down with a new extended procedure which involves the cupping and squeezing of breasts and genitalia with full hands. It is not guaranteed that the security guard with be of the same gender as you. Gradually, these new procedures and machines will be added to airports across the country in compliance with the new regulations.

There is no choice but photographed naked or touched, there is no choice but photographed naked or touched, there is no choice but photographed naked or touched. There is no possibility to say no. The government does not hear no. The government says that no means force.

Not only do they mean that adults are subject to having a naked photo on file with the government, but they also mean children will have nude photos on file as well.

Not only do they mean that adults are subject to having a full genital and breast pat down (and squeeze), but they also mean children will be pat down too.

This is a blatant violation of sexual assault laws, child sexual molestation laws, and child pornography laws.

This is a blatant violation of basic human rights.

This is a blatant and highly personal invasion of privacy by the U.S. Government. Never mind police entrappment, illegal video cameras, and wire tapping: now they have the right to your body and there's nothing you can do about it.

Already, there are parents telling personal stories about what their children had to go through and how they felt they could do nothing, as parents and protectors, to stop it. There are sexual assault survivors talking about how they pleaded with security guards to stop and cried while they were pat down in front of thousands of fliers, reliving their assault all over again. There are individuals telling their personal stories of not having a choice and regreting not doing anything. There are individuals telling their personal stories of refusing both and being threatened with civil suits when they walked out of the airport. The pot is beginning to stir, but is it enough?

I don't know what you plan to do about it, but I plan to do my research and refuse the procedures even if it lands me on a train (or threatened with a civil suit). I plan on protesting it (and I've got some ideas up my sleeve for flight day). Wouldn't it be even more effective if everyone joined?