Airline Sexual Assault

I've flown many times in my life. Not million mile club levels, but enough. I remember the pre 9/11/01 "Did you pack your own bags?" question. People joked about that. Things have become terrible since then. Honestly I felt violated when they would take out all my belongings and rummage through them. I would feel bad when I'd have to put everything on those plastic trays and take my shoes off. I received the old individual screening, I didn't like the time it took, but it wasn't invasive.

One time I flew from Japan to San Francisco taking nothing but a couple shirts, socks, and underwear, what surprised me was that it seemed my lack of anything made me more suspicious (this might seem logical, unless like me you'd experienced 10 years of them making you feel like shit for taking things on a plane, excessive checks, throwing personal shit around in public, questioning you very soul). The woman who checked my bag in Japan took 5 minutes to look through my 6 pieces of clothing, all the while asking me "Is this all?" When I got to SF, the customs guy seemed pissed that all I had was a little clothing, he actually started interrogating me about where my toothbrush was, how I could possibly get away with such little clothing (in case you're curious now, you can suck my dick and I'll tell you).

But now that TSA agents are sexually assaulting passengers, and taking nude photos, rubbing down babies, massaging teen girls tits under bra, juggling guys balls, fingering women's snatchs and so forth. I really thought this would be the tipping point. There are a couple stories on the news, there is one popular video of rebellion, but overall not much else. Federal issues are a bitch to solve. Without direct order from the president, a retraction of this policy would have to be brought out through legislation or a federal court battle.

Essentially these sexual assaults will likely carry on. And if a guy is caught, yet again by the passengers (as all these recent terrorists have been stopped by passengers NOT by security) and if he happens to shove a bomb up his ass, well you can expect passengers to get fists right up in there. Is there a breaking point? I expect not. I don't think the Department of Homeland Security has any limit to what they're willing to do. Even if in protest enough people stopped flying, check 2001, or 2008, the federal government will just bail out the airlines.

There's no winning this issue financially, but we can support ground travel, give bullet trains a boost. Though the first time someone brings a bomb on a train the fistings and fingerings will soon follow.