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New Jersey and Idaho legislators also want enhanced screening banned. So do New York City ones, wanting them out of JFK and LaGuardia Airports. Georgetown University Professor Marc Rotenberg, President of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), heads a lawsuit challenge to suspend their use, pending an independent safety review, saying "The TSA (Transportation Security Administration) has shown a frightening disregard for the concerns of American travelers."
November 24 was designated "National Opt-Out Day!" for citizens to "stand up for their rights, stand up for their liberty, and protest the federal government's desire to virtually strip us naked or submit to an 'enhanced pat down' that touches people inappropriately. The protest's goal is to arouse public outrage, and demand lawmakers change policy. Otherwise, flyers face a "no-win situation: both the naked body scanners and the enhanced pat downs (grossly violate) privacy rights and dignity, both make you feel like a criminal....Is there....no better way to provide aviation security....?"
More at issue: why have what's intrusive, harmful, unneeded, and destructive of civil liberty protections! Why sacrifice privacy rights and the Fourth Amendment's prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizures! Why put up with government tactics that allow it! Why let America fast track toward tyranny, a nation no longer fit to live in! Why stay silent when more than ever Lynne Stewart's advice applies:
"Organize! Agitate! Agitate! Agitate!"
A Final Comment
In response to widespread complaints, Obama did what he does best, deceitfully saying the following:
"TSA in consultation with counterterrorism experts have indicated to me that the procedures that they have been putting in place are the only ones right now that they consider to be effective against the kind of threat that we saw in the Christmas Day bombing."
False, as the above information explains, but more's at stake as well - the profit motive. Among others, Bush administration Homeland Security (DHS) head Michael Chertoff's company, the "Chertoff Group" profiteers from the scam, his company saying it:
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