Many people are up in arms about John Tyner's objection to going through an invasive body search or going through the imaging machine at Lindbergh Field. I say, too bad, John. Flying is not a right, it is a privilege. Like driving a car. Because we have a sizable portion of the world itching to do us in, we surrender certain comforts. If you do not like it, simple, don't fly. Or buy an Airdong™.
We were talking about this incident at coffee this morning and one of the guys said that if we had more racial profiling, normal americans would not be subjected to such draconian safeguards. Guess what, there are plenty of white american converts to Islam, our principal protagonists and the cause of 99% of the terrorism on the planet today. I am sure that they are not merely trying to grope your "junk", John.
If you have a mind to stuff your rectum with PETA explosive and join me on my non stop flight to Paducah, I feel comforted that my government is doing it's best to ferret out your little anal surprise.
On the other side of the coin, the TSA now threatening this man with $11,000.00 in fines and a civil suit for failing to undergo the procedure also seems horribly out of proportion and unfair. If someone is unwilling to submit to these tests, he or she should have the right to exit the terminal and catch a greyhound to their intended destination. The punitive tone of the government's reaction does strike me as an assault on civil liberty and clearly out of bounds in this case.
