TSA Speedo Protest JFK

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey resorts to inventing laws in an attempt to stop a passenger from making his flight. Once they realize their efforts are futile, they depend on a private corporation to enforce their imaginary laws. TSA and Port Authority officials convince the head of Jetblue security that the passenger, who was not violating any laws, constitutes a "risk". Jetblue ultimately bans the passenger from ever flying with the airline again.

This incident is a microcosm of the increasingly invasive measures of the government and their increasing dependence on private institutions to enforce their "laws". Mega-giant Wal-Mart recently teamed up with the Department of Homeland Security to implement a program of civilian-to-civilian espionage. Wal-Mart customers are encouraged to spy on and report their neighbors, friends, family, and fellow-citizens and will be exposed to a government message on video screens at check-out counters in a quantum leap of Orwellian methods in the US. A company called Citizen Concepts created a new iPhoneApp insultingly titled "PatriotApp" that allows users to report "suspicious activity" to multiple goverment agencies from their phone.

May we now and forever maintain an attitude of, "DOWN WITH BIG SIS!"

NY Indecent Exposure laws: http://law.onecle.com/new-york/penal/PEN0245.01_245.01.html

TSA Policy on video recording: http://blog.tsa.gov/2009/03/can-i-take-photos-at-checkpoint-and.html

NY laws on Disorderly Conduct (7th section down): http://wings.buffalo.edu/law/bclc/web/NewYork/ny3(b).htm

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[artemus21]

Jet Blue if your are watching. Guess what. Thats right, you didn't want this mans business and you won't be getting mine. Ever!

[iAMtheREALspeed]

I'm 99.9 PERCENT 'SURE' most cops don't know what the FUCKing laws are.

[benjasmine]

@jas636tas "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin

[benjasmine]

@jas636tas Sixth, I don't view this as simply losing a shred of convenience. Feel free to disagree, but as another commenter pointed out, US is gradually becoming a total police state. We have been losing a shred of convenience here and there for a long time. Our freedom is being taken away piece by piece. A lot of people still don't realize this because it's being done slowly. Our government knows they can't take it away all at once.

[benjasmine]

@jas636tas Fifth, call me out if I'm wrong, but I disagree with your notion that sacrificing "slight inconvenience" of personal freedom and privacy is very worth that "amazing" or "the most impressive opportunity" to fly. Whether this is the best approach to get that same flying experience is certainly debatable. Whether that's just a shred of inconvenience or a matter of American principle is also debatable. But I'm certainly not the most qualified person to debate on this issue.

[benjasmine]

@jas636tas (Fourth) I think you are being judgmental by using these words on me based on a few comments you read on the Internet. I have always been cooperative during airport screening procedures like most other people. You know, lining up like cattle and prepare to get a free X-Ray scan of my whole body. Sure, Americans used to be humble, hardworking and grateful. I'd like to add that they also had more individual freedom and opportunities.

[benjasmine]

@jas636tas Third, back to the topic, I was simply expressing my feeling toward the screening process and the TSA because I felt resonated with the video. I think you will disagree with me, but I admire this person for taking the courage to protest publicly. However, as much as you think of me as "ridiculous", "arrogant" and "one of self-righteous, impatient, 'me-centered' complainers," I have never done anything remotely like this.

[benjasmine]

@jas636tas Second, I agree with you to a point that using the word "rape" in my original comment with quotation marks was still, as you called it, "absurd." I apologize if I offended you and others. Though, I think you took my comment too seriously, but that's just my opinion. Anyway, I could have chosen a better word. I don't consider English as my native language, so please excuse my language.

[benjasmine]

@jas636tas First, thank you for taking your time to "call [me] out" and to reply me, a person who does not make sense to you and who seems "ridiculous and arrogant" to you; who is also considered by you as "one of self-righteous, impatient, 'me-centered' complainers unwilling to sacrifice a shred of convenience ..." It sounds to me that you really dislike me, but still you took your value time out to condemn me. You are probably not alone, but you are the only person so far to do this

[jas636tas]

@benjasmine America used to be a country of humble, hardworking, grateful men and women and unfortunately, as evidenced by your remarks, is becoming one of self-righteous, impatient, “me-centered” complainers unwilling to sacrifice a shred of convenience for even the most impressive opportunity.

[jas636tas]

@benjasmine Third, regarding the specifics of your logic, you equate freedom and prosperity to not being searched before entering an aircraft. Not only does this not make sense, it seems ridiculous and arrogant to me that you feel that the slight inconvenience of being searched outweighs the amazing opportunity you enjoy when you safely sit in a chair and fly thousands of miles through the sky.

[jas636tas]

@benjasmine

First, I did see the quotes around rape and I still think using that word, even in hyperbole, is absurd, and that's why I called you out on it. Nothing new though; it's a common tactic used to over-dramatize an experience while complaining about some aspect of it.