For the First Time, the TSA Meets Resistance - Jeffrey Goldberg - National. A journey through the security line at the Baltimore airport This past Wednesday, I showed up at Baltimore-Washington International for a flight to Providence, R.I. I had a choice of two TSA screening checkpoints. I picked mine based on the number of people waiting in line, not because I am impatient, but because the coiled, closely packed lines at TSA screening sites are the most dangerous places in airports, completely unprotected from a terrorist attack -- a terrorist attack that would serve the same purpose (shutting down air travel) as an attack on board an aircraft. Agents were funneling every passenger at this particular checkpoint through a newly installed back-scatter body imaging device, which allows the agency's security officers to, in essence, see under your clothing.
The machine captures an image of your naked self, including your genitals, and sends the image to an agent in a separate room. "What am I not going to like? " "Resistance? " "Your testicles," he explained. After John Tyner: A Five-Step Plan to a Sane Airport Security System. TSA X Ray Shirt. Woman Strips Down to Her Lingerie, Gets TSA Pat Down Anyway—Twice [Updated] Exclusive: TSA frisks groom children to cooperate with sex predators, abuse expert says | Raw Story. By Daniel TencerWednesday, December 1, 2010 10:39 EDT An expert in the fight against child sexual abuse is raising the alarm about a technique the TSA is reportedly using to get children to co-operate with airport pat-downs: calling it a “game”.
Ken Wooden, founder of Child Lures Prevention, says the TSA’s recommendation that children be told the pat-down is a “game” is potentially putting children in danger. Telling a child that they are engaging in a game is “one of the most common ways” that sexual predators use to convince children to engage in inappropriate contact, Wooden told Raw Story. Children “don’t have the sophistication” to distinguish between a pat-down carried out by an airport security officer and an assault by a sexual predator, he said.
The TSA policy could “desensitize children to inappropriate touch and ultimately make it easier for sexual offenders to prey on our children,” Wooden added. “You try to make it as best you can for that child to come through.