Freshman Representative Opposes "TSA Porn" 620
An anonymous reader writes "Not content to simply follow the 'anything to protect American lives' mantra, freshman Representative Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) has introduced a bill to prohibit mandatory full body scans at airports. Chaffetz states, 'The images offer a disturbingly accurate view of a person's body underneath clothing ... Americans should not be required to expose their bodies in this manner in order to fly.' He goes on to note that the ACLU has expressed support for the bill. Maybe we don't need tin-foil sports coats to go with our tin-foil hats. For reference, the Daily Herald has a story featuring images from the millimeter wavelength imager, and we've talked about the scanners before."
Yes! (Score:5, Funny)
sports coat? (Score:5, Funny)
Who needed a tinfoil sportcoat? I don't care if they see a fuzzy outline of my moobs at the airport.
A tin-foil jockstrap, on the other hand...
Well, I use one, and ever since I started using a whole roll of tinfoil, I get lots of extra attention from the ladies. I'm not about to stop using it just because they might stop scanning my nads at the airport.
Re:Being a policeman is only easy in a police stat (Score:5, Funny)
On the upside, if everyone could see what you looked like naked then just maybe we could gain some headway into stopping the obesity trend in America.
Re:sports coat? (Score:4, Funny)
A tin-foil jockstrap, on the other hand...
Why? They won't have the necessary resolution to see anything anyway...
Re:Stupid christians (Score:5, Funny)
Then you clearly haven't seen enough people naked.
Re:Mandatory no, voluntary yes (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Porn? (Score:5, Funny)
You call that English?
Re:When does it stop? (Score:4, Funny)
As offset by the non-gun-related shootings? I really don't know. I'll have to investigate that.
Bonus points (Score:5, Funny)
Bonus points to the first person who goes through the millimeter wave scanner at the airport and:
-wears the biggest strap-on possible
-writes "fuck you", etc. in metallic-fleck paint across their chest
-gets a call from a TSA screener after writing their phone number on their private parts
-sends a screener running screaming from the room without doing anything in particular other than going through the scanner
Re:Maybe he can help me. (Score:3, Funny)
Peter Griffin, is that you?
[that episode was on AS last nite]
Re:Being a policeman is only easy in a police stat (Score:5, Funny)
On the upside, if everyone could see what you looked like naked then just maybe we could gain some headway into stopping the obesity trend in America.
Or a jumpstart to the Cult of the Eyeless.
This needs to make it to nightclubs (Score:4, Funny)
I'm disappointed that millimeter wave scanning and Z-backscatter hasn't yet made it to nightclubs. Security there can be more intrusive than at airports. Nightclub goons actually pat you down, which TSA doesn't do.
It would be fun to have the scans of people coming in on monitors around the club. Wny not? The clubbing crowd isn't that modest.
Re:Cancer risk? (Score:2, Funny)
Naked people! (Score:5, Funny)
What a surprise that the first link to be slashdotted is the one purporting to contain pictures of naked people.
Personally, I didn't click on that link at all.
Re:Being a policeman is only easy in a police stat (Score:5, Funny)
'I'm sorry sir, but your worker's comp doesn't cover eye bleach. Stop asking your employer to purchase nudie mags.'
Re:Being a policeman is only easy in a police stat (Score:5, Funny)
I'm sure on days when attractive women come through the airport, it does make them harder. But I hardly think that's the point of the Bill of Rights.
Re:Being a policeman is only easy in a police stat (Score:4, Funny)
On the upside, if everyone could see what you looked like naked then just maybe we could gain some headway into stopping the obesity trend in America.
Only to the degree that most of the people watching the scanners would no longer have an appetite... of course the few that did like it would be really disturbing... Oh, look at the cottage cheese thighs on that one! Work It, Baby!
Re:Being a policeman is only easy in a police stat (Score:2, Funny)
Doubtful... it's not like they aren't disgusting with clothes on.
Re:I was scanned in LAX (Score:2, Funny)
Why is that Spartacus, are they hideously obese?
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Re:I was scanned in LAX (Score:5, Funny)
I think you mean "If your shotgun is riding balls, see a doctor.".
Re:Being a policeman is only easy in a police stat (Score:0, Funny)
Re:When does it stop? (Score:1, Funny)
My friend was killed by a cannon, you insensitive clod.
Re:Being a policeman is only easy in a police stat (Score:3, Funny)
Re:This needs to make it to nightclubs (Score:1, Funny)
I don't even fly and I get patted down at the airport on a regular basis. It's the only physical contact I get anymore.
Re:Homophobes (Score:1, Funny)
female marines attached to your unit? Yippee!!!!
Re:Being a policeman is only easy in a police stat (Score:5, Funny)
As an obese man just let me say:
If they insist on seeing me naked, then they do so at their down risk. I will not be held responsible for any ensuing medical complications, or psychological damage incurred upon their staff.
On the plus side I could probably make good money smuggling pot into the US. The TSA agent will either be too busy waving me around the scanner, or screaming "Oh God my eyes!, it burns, it burns!"
Re:Being a policeman is only easy in a police stat (Score:4, Funny)
Government Bailout
Re:Porn? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Being a policeman is only easy in a police stat (Score:1, Funny)
yeah, nobody will get within 100 feet of a man wearing a flesh suit. you will get better seats at the movie too.
Re:Being a policeman is only easy in a police stat (Score:4, Funny)
"Honey..do these pants make my ass look large??"
Babe...it ain't the pants.
Re:Being a policeman is only easy in a police stat (Score:1, Funny)
A major one.
Awful!! (Score:0, Funny)