TSA Pat Downs

  So there is this thing called the TSA (Transportation Security Administration) pat down.  It is where you basically go through this screening process where they take a picture of your naked body to make sure you aren't armed to the teeth or carrying a box filled with Uranium strapped to your chest, ready to Carpe some Diem.
  The first time I heard this, I thought it was so absurd and such a violation of our privacy as individuals, that it would be thrown out and the person who suggested it would be slapped by a wolverine.  You can imagine my surprise when I found it was still being talked about and used.

Boy he’s really getting in there.  I can’t wait for my turn.

  This is scan is done with this thing called Advanced Imaging Technology or ATI.  ATI is so powerful it can see through clothes, see if a man is circumcised, or if a woman was on her period.  I might as well walk around naked.  It's not only enough that they can see you butt-naked, the machines also stores your picture in this databank for who knows how long.
  I can only imagine how abused this new power is going to be. Imagine this wonderful scenario: Guy is working the ATI, beautiful celebrity is taking a flight, let's say it is Jessica Alba, guy has always wanted to see Jessica Alba naked, luckily, he works the ATI machine so he can see every uncovered contour of her body.  Let's say guy wants to send picture of naked Jessica to his buddy so he can gloat; easy enough.  Just take a picture of it and send the picture on its merry way to your friends phone.  Now this guy is one you would trust with your briefcase, let alone a hot nude celebrity.  The picture is passed around more than STDs in high school and now you have an epidemic.  Poor Jessica's rights have been violated as long with the rest of her body.  Shame on you TSA.
  That is just a scenario, real life hasn't been much better.  One woman, a rape victim, went through the machine on her way home back to Minnesota. "What they did to me, in full view of everyone else in line, was like being sexually assaulted all over again," she said.  "I was in shock.  I hate myself that I allowed them to do this to me.  I haven't been able to stop crying since."  SHE HASN'T BEEN ABLE TO STOP CRYING SINCE!  Are you kidding me?!  Talk about traumatizing.  A different man, a bladder cancer survivor, was absolutely humiliated after a run in with the TSA machine.  Tom Sawyer, a 61-year-old retired special education teacher, wears a bag to collect his urine.  The TSA machine didn’t care.  I can only assume it grabbed him by the shoulders and tossed him like a rag-doll into a wall named Embarrassment.  During a pat down, the poor man had his urine bag spill all over his clothes.  The experience left him in tears.  He was able to change his bag, but did not have enough time to change him clothes before his flight left; he was forced to board with the urine soaked clothes on a flight literally across America.
  All in all.  I don’t like this.  Now I know this will severely cut down on some terrorists smuggling bombs and the what-nots on planes, but at the price of giving basically anything we hold as private over to the government.  We hold America up so high up on a pedestal about how lucky we are and how many rights we are given.  Now they’re slowly being taken away as we move closer and closer to an obsession to stopping terrorists.
  Just a fun fact, did you know that in the last decade including the 9/11 terrorists attacks, you have been 10 times more lucky to die from a fire you accidentally set in your home than from a terrorists attack.