If you don't want to pass through an airport scanner that allows security agents to see an image of your naked body or to undergo the alternative, a thorough manual search, you may have to find another way to travel this holiday season.
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is warning that any would-be commercial airline passenger who enters an airport checkpoint and then refuses to undergo the method of inspection designated by TSA will not be allowed to fly and also will not be permitted to simply leave the airport.
That person will have to remain on the premises to be questioned by the TSA and possibly by local law enforcement. Anyone refusing faces fines up to $11,000 and possible arrest.
"Once a person submits to the screening process, they can not just decide to leave that process," says Sari Koshetz, regional TSA spokesperson, based in Miami.
Koshetz said such passengers would be questioned "until it is determined that they don't pose a threat" to the public.
The rest can be read from the Palm Beach Post.
So you refuse to be photographed naked. You refused to be touch in a personal area. And if so, you COULD be fined and arrested.
WTF???
F*&% the Federal agencies who believe they have a right to go to this extreme.
I think everyone who plans to fly less then 700 miles should take a car, bus or train. F*&# the flying and see how fast the airlines jump in on stopping this stupid way of screening flyers.
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Child is subject to partial strip search. (notice the TSA agent woman at the end)DISTURBING VIDEO SURFACED
UNEXCEPTABLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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And it begins. A man refuses to submit to the X-Ray and pat down, but goes one step further and takes off his cloths to his underwear to show he is not carrying any illegal contraband but that was not good enough for TSA and was then arrested for refusal and paraded through the airport nearly naked.
