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Nancy Campbell, a 33-year-old from Brooklyn, reveals how the experience left her feeling as though she had been "sexually assaulted".
But it is an interaction which continues to leave some people, like former Miss USA Susie Castillo, who was patted down after refusing a full body scan in Dallas, furious and distressed. "I was crying because I'm really upset that as an American I have to go through this - and I do feel violated - I didn't think I would when I had to opt out of the machine but I completely feel violated," she said.
Originally posted by paraphi
I have been "patted down" and found it to be a pleasurable experience - it was a UK airport.
However, US airport personnel are frankly rude and hard-faced, but at the end of the day (whether they are rude or polite) they have a job to do. They will get the grief and the nightmares if by their omission – or fear to offend the prudish - there was and a catastrophe.
Regards
Originally posted by Wrabbit2000
reply to post by Kryties
Well put for that. I'd recently flown across the country and couldn't help but overhear an Australian in the row behind me going on about the differences in air travel there. It made me feel rather crappy to hear how free, open and easy going Australian domestic air travel was while we line up to be electronically strip searched or molested if we don't like being zapped.
Australia is in the war along side us and just as much a target as we are according to the people who announce such things for the Taliban/A.Q.. So... Could it be Australia is realistic and my nation has just become paranoid to the point of clinical illness? I'm sure thinking that way these days. They shouldn't let us Americans get around others. It makes us realize how badly we're really getting it these days.
US airport check 'left me feeling sexually assaulted
Originally posted by Wrabbit2000
reply to post by Kryties
Well put for that. I'd recently flown across the country and couldn't help but overhear an Australian in the row behind me going on about the differences in air travel there. It made me feel rather crappy to hear how free, open and easy going Australian domestic air travel was while we line up to be electronically strip searched or molested if we don't like being zapped.
Originally posted by thoughtsfull
I am therefore quite shocked that in less than 20 years it has swung the other way... (WTF?) and yet I still find myself shaking my head and rolling my eyes that they still can not find the middle ground.
Originally posted by petrus4
Originally posted by thoughtsfull
I am therefore quite shocked that in less than 20 years it has swung the other way... (WTF?) and yet I still find myself shaking my head and rolling my eyes that they still can not find the middle ground.
There's a much smaller forum I post on, with several Americans. They're extremely socialist, and that fact was one thing which led me to want to come here.
I can't say if this is the complete explanation behind America's swing towards fascism, but for these socialists I'm talking about, the single thing they care about more than anything else, is making sure that they don't offend anyone. They also think that government should be part of the means of enforcement for making sure that nobody is ever physically hurt, offended, or victimised in any way; and they think that that is much, much more important than freedom.