Blog calls for men to wear kilts, sans underpants, to protest TSA screenings

[Ruby the Liberal]

Brilliant! :D

I am furious that TSA is basically groping children (most recently, an 8yo who was 'selected' for 'enhanced screening' in Florida last week).

"touch my junk and I'll have you arrested" is the new "Lets roll" for the travel set.

You want to feel up my junk, mister air security worker? Let me help you with that.

That's the basic idea behind a clever twist to the "National Opt-Out Day" campaign, which seeks to backlog the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) with as many forced frisks as possible on Nov. 24. Campaigners are calling for the national day of action as a response to the TSA's use of backscatter x-ray machines that take nude pictures of flyers at security checkpoints.

Since the Department of Homeland Security ordered enhanced screening measures, anyone who refuses their random assignment to the backscatter machines has been subject to invasive pat-downs that, in many cases, have seen screeners groping passengers' genitals and breasts. Not even children are exempt.

{snip}

The "superfantastic" twist to "National Opt-Out Day": If you feel the screenings are humiliating, let the government share your embarrassment (pun intended) by wearing a kilt. And if you're, ahem, ballsy enough, join the protest wearing it like a true Scotsman, sans underpants.

The idea was first suggested by The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg, who writes:

Think about it -- if you're a male, and you want to bollix-up the nonsensical airport security-industrial complex, one way to do so would be to wear a kilt. If nothing else, this will cause TSA employees to throw up their hands in disgust. If you want to go the extra extra mile, I suggest commando-style kilt-wearing. While it is probably illegal to fly without pants, I can't imagine that it's illegal to fly without underpants. If you are Scottish, or part Scottish, or know someone who is Scottish, or eat Scottish salmon, or enjoy Scotch, or have a vestigial affection for "Braveheart" despite Mel Gibson, you can plausibly claim some sort of multicultural diversity privilege -- the term "True Scotsman" refers to soldiers who honor their tradition and heritage by wearing kilts without drawers underneath.

More: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/11/blog-wear-kilt-underpants-protest-tsa-screenings/

Make it so gentlemen travelers!

:rofl:

[somone]

1. Do they change gloves between examinations?

Or are they gonna transfer 'stuff' from one traveler to the next?

[TheCowsCameHome]

4. Probably with each other, and then left/right, right /left, then repeat.

[matt819]

2. Better yet

It would be fantastic if you could get travelers in airports around the country to strip naked - yes, in public - in order to demonstrate that they are not a threat and, of course, to make the point that these security measures are absurd. Of course, tv coverage of this could be a problem due to, well, those security regulations, but it certainly would be interesting. This would be like the, what is it, the no pants day on NYC subways?

[RamboLiberal]

9. Germans are doing it

The argument surrounding full-body scanners has been taken to a more personal level in Germany - with a series of naked protests dubbed 'fleshmobs'.

Groups of demonstrators have stripped off at airports in Berlin, Frankfurt and Dusseldorf in reaction to the news that officials are considering installing the scanners during the coming year.

A number of governments around the world are looking at using the controversial technology in a bid to boost airport security.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-1243439/Naked-Germans-protest-body-airport-scanners.html#ixzz15OiXTkgd

[ProgressiveProfessor]

22. Its called "regimental" not "commando" when you wear a kilt

[Matariki]

11. Yep - a scene resembling Auschwitz should really show them

Many women describe their horror at being required to undress in front of leering SS men and at being shaved by male prisoners. Rose Meth, one of the women who smuggled gunpowder to the Sonderkommando in Auschwitz, said, "They made us undress completely naked in front of the Nazi soldiers. We wanted to die. They shaved our heads. They shaved all our hair, everywhere." Sarah Nomberg-Pryztyk, an Auschwitz prisoner, explained that they were treated like cattle and hit and kicked as they were processed: "in silence with tears streaming down our cheeks," they were made to spread their legs and "the body hair was shorn too."35 Fifteen year old Livia Bitton Jackson was too embarrassed to expose her breasts, "two growing buds, taut and sensitive", until the sound of rifle shot jolted her and she removed her bra quickly.36

The ordeal of deliberate humiliation began in the ghetto for Cecilie Klein, just before loaded into the cattle cars: We were marched off in groups to a brick factory near the station for a degrading body search. First we were ordered to strip naked, men and women together. Then the women and the girls were lined up on one side and were ordered to lie on our sides on a wooden table. While an SS officer gawked and jeered, a woman with a stick poked around our private parts. My burning cheeks betrayed my sense of shame and humiliation. I sobbed for my mother, subjected to this bestial invasion.


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[WolverineDG]

52. what about bathing suits or bathrobes & fuzzy slippers

(to get around indecency laws)

dg

[csziggy]

3. And sing "Toucha toucha toucha touch me, I wanna be dirty" at the same time!

That would make the TSA think twice.

[femrap]

5. I love that song from

'The Rocky Horror Show.'

[TK421]

6. I just wouldn't wash down there for a month or so...that should do the trick n/t

[RamboLiberal]

7. Then I wouldn't want to be sitting next to you on the plane

Yuck!

[Mist]

8. Not to mention the chronic itch that comes from not bathing. I couldn't stand it on a 3-day

camping trip where washing was jumping in icy streams...

[TK421]

43. are you kidding? my nuts would have their own seat n/t

[Ruby the Liberal]

14. Or maybe bathe, but up the ante with a viagra?

:D

[TK421]

42. Don't give me more ideas! I've considered a couple of options now

O8)

[XOKCowboy]

57. Give them the old "Ted Nugent" eh? I like it!

Very creative! :toast:

[TK421]

58. Hey...lots better than killin' em and grillin' em!

[gratuitous]

10. That's actually a biblical response

When Jesus said that if someone sues you for your coat, you should give him your shirt as well, he was describing a very oppressive situation. Face it: Anyone who would sue someone for the clothes off his back has to be one vindictive motherfucker. Jesus was basically saying why stop at the coat? Hand over your shirt, as well. Turn the oppression back on the oppressor by embarrassing him with the extremity of his thirst for vengeance. The young people did a skit on this at our denomination's annual meeting a few years ago, with the oppressed defendant stripping down to a very theatrical pair of boxer shorts. It was pretty funny, but got the point across.

Think of the denouement in Slap Shot, the hockey movie. Come equipped with The Stripper on your laptop, and when these over-officious jerks start getting overofficious, crank up the sound and give 'em what they want. And more. You wanna fight for freedom, it might just mean standing around in your underwear. We get enough fat old men like me doing it, and maybe we can restore a little sanity to a system that's currently being driven by the most pants-wettingest elements ever to ascend to high government office.

[Ian David]

12. My first name is Scottish. I could wear a kilt. n/t

[housewolf]

13. What an inspired idea!

I'd love to see this actuallly happen

[pipi_k]

15. Special song dedicated to men who wear kilts....

hee hee...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoUV5d09JZw


:7

[Ruby the Liberal]

17. "lad, I don't know where ye been, but I see ye won first prize"

OMG, I am typing through tears!

:rofl:

[gkhouston]

33. LOL, haven't thought of that one in years! I didn't click through to the link but

I recognize the song from that line. Know what I'll be singing while I wash the dishes tonight! :rofl:

[iris27]

35. That song always kills me!

:rofl:

[xchrom]

16. Oooh - being felt up while I'm wearing a skirt?

Like I haven't done that before.

Sign me on!

[Ruby the Liberal]

19. A coworker said last week that if confronted with this invasive procedure,

he was going to wink at TSA and say, "this better have a happy ending".

LOL!

[xchrom]

24. LOL!!! Nt

[theHandpuppet]

18. I think that's a great idea

I think men look great in kilts.

http://www.sportkilt.com/?gclid=CPePyt2GpKUCFeFN5Qod_19zIw
http://www.utilikilts.com/company/products/kilts/

[Ruby the Liberal]

20. Yikes! Looks great, but those are EXPENSIVE!

[xchrom]

26. Shit -- buy a made in china wal-mart skirt for that.

That much fun for so little doesnt come along
Very often.

[Ruby the Liberal]

28. There is that!

:rofl:

[Dyler Turden]

21. You can count me in.

I've wanted to get a kilt for years.

[IDemo]

23. Now if you just include the bagpipes

and play higher and higher notes as they run their hands up your leg.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

25. I say, McTavish...

Is there anything worn under your kilt?



Achnae lass, it's as good as new.

:D

[bleever]

36. That's a good one.

I can't believe I hadn't heard it before.

:rofl:

[racaulk]

27. Love that idea!

:rofl:

[stray cat]

29. Those who object should fly naked and avoid scanners - it's a good solution

If you don't want to go through a scanner you can strip off all your clothes to prove you are not carrying anything - problem solved!

[Ruby the Liberal]

31. I will become German if 'selected' for enhanced security

The Germans have been publically stripping to their underwear to protest plans to add these scanners to their airports by stripping down to the bare essentials en masse. Lots of youtubes showing the demonstrations in various cities. One is linked above.

My local airport calls me aside? No private room for me. I will publically start taking off clothing and handing it to TSA piece by piece until I am down to my skiivies.

[Kennah]

30. How about a kilt and an adult diaper?

[Kennah]

32. Perhaps this option

TSA: Scanner or pat down?
Me: Pat down, umm, but can I request that she conduct the pat down?
TSA: Sir, you don't get to choose.
Me: Mmmmm, you're a take charge sort of guy. What are you doing right now?

[Ruby the Liberal]

37. BRILLIANT!

:rofl:

[Fla_Democrat]

34. I wanna know, why someone doesn't....

Just over-play it, pull a Meg Ryan (from 'When Harry met Sally'), male or female.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nNhOH4Y0bI

What are they going to do, arrest you for an 'involuntary' response to their attentions? :evilgrin:


:smoke:

[Ruby the Liberal]

38. OMG - this is an excellent idea!

TSA, you have no idea about the creativity of the American public. I hope you are ready for the backlash!

:D :D :D

[IDemo]

39. Yell "a little higher. Down.To the right. OOOH, RIGHT THERE!"

[AnnieBW]

40. They can handle our manhoods, but they can never take OUR FREEDOM!

LOL! I'd do it if I was flying on that day, and I'm a woman!

[marmar]

41. Sounds cool....unless the TSA person has cold, clammy hands......

nt

[Manifestor_of_Light]

44. kilts are for guys to show off their great legs, in my opinion.

As Dr. Demento said in his liner notes, "'The Scotsman' is a great favorite among his female listeners."

:rofl:

I'm descended from a long line of Scottish drunkards on my mother's side with a rare and strange "Mac" name from the Stuarts. They are all descended from one couple that came here in 1756.

[Warren DeMontague]

45. Just don't fly. You really don't need to go there, anyway.

Seriously. I won't, either. I swear.

You're certainly not going to see me on any half-empty planes, enjoying all the extra space.

Really. Just don't fly.

[eridani]

46. "O see yon sleeping Scotsman, so strong and handsome built

"I wonder if it's true what they don't wear beneath the kilt."

[Manifestor_of_Light]

47. If I ever want to travel outside the US,

a crappy bus to Brownsville & then over the border is lookin' real good now.

[WolverineDG]

53. Actually, I hear Autobuses Adame is pretty good

& not pricey either.

dg

[Manifestor_of_Light]

54. I figure Houston to Monterey would be good.

I think Monterey is the closest big city to the border.

On the East Side in Houston, on Navigation Blvd. there are lots of minivans/buses you can risk your life in. I assume the little operators are not being inspected.

Thanks for the rec. :D

[WolverineDG]

56. well if you do some digging online

someone posted that Adame goes to Monterrey for about $25. Not too shabby.

If not, there is always Greyhound.

dg

[Lucian]

48. I'd go as a true Scotsman and take a Viagra or two.

[Qutzupalotl]

49. Gets kinda windy on the tarmac.

Just saying.

[Lilith Velkor]

50. Velkor calls for men to wear kilts, sans underpants, 'cause that's hot.

[WolverineDG]

51. next time I fly, I'm going commando

:evilgrin:

dg

[rexcat]

55. Now if I could just fart on command...

it would be a really quick pat down.