TSA Courts Next Generation Of Groping Victims With Cartoons And Coloring Pages
from the the-more-you're-told... dept
Just in time for peak holiday travel, the TSA is shifting its marketing strategy in hopes of prepping children for their guest roles in its security theater. Police State USA reports the official YouTube presence of the TSA has just uploaded a cartoon (titled banally enough "TSA Kids Animation") that aims to answer all those questions kids will be asking during their initial trip through security, including, "Do I have to take off my shoes?" and "Why does the TSA need Mom's breast milk?"
What it won't allow them (or their legal guardians) to do is comment on the video or give it a thumbs up/thumbs down rating. The TSA PR staff has helpfully disabled all indicators of displeasure.
This video is just part of rich multimedia experience which continues at the TSA website under the heading "TSA Kids." Additional "fun" can be had here, including such interactive features as "printing out a page full of scanning equipment to color," "printing out a full page knockoff TSA agent badge" and "squinting at a set of TSA K9 'officer' (the dogs, not the humans) collectors cards."
A "Parents Page" offers talking points for parental units to uncritically disseminate to their little traveling companions. The page reassures parents that no part of the process should involve separating them from their children. It then points out that parents will need to be separated from their children.
Children who can walk without assistance should walk through the metal detector separately from their parent or guardian.Should the independent youngster set off the alarm, the TSA will try its hardest not to grope the youth until the offending item(s) is found.
If they alarm, TSA has procedures in place that have reduced, but will not eliminate, the need for pat downs to resolve the alarm, including multiple passes through screening technologies and other procedures.This is Blogger Bob's out. No one can promise your child won't receive a security groping, but the TSA will do everything it can to
The TSA does seem to have improved its procedures for dealing with children with medical issues and disabilities. It appears all the negative press over the past decade has finally provoked a much-needed reassessment of its policies. TSA agents cannot remove children from their mobility devices (that's left to the guardian) and at no time will the child be separated from the parent. Parents with affected children can also request a private screening.
The TSA is trying to alleviate some of the fear these new flyers will experience when confronted with the excesses of airport security for the first time. The ultimate goal, of course, is to normalize its tactics. For kids, the way airport security is now is the ways it has always been. A new generation of travelers will adopt these standards as the new baseline, making it that much easier for the agency to deploy additional intrusions and stipulations in the future. It's not exactly brainwashing, but it's not exactly harmless, either. The smiling animal faces and the beep-boop noises of "Stop-Screen-Go!" sanitize another set of instructions handed down by a government that is mainly interested in the marketing of fear. It's the next generation's "Duck and Cover." Or "See Something Say Something." It's the evisceration of civil liberties under the cover of "safety."
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"fucking asslicking dick tits."
There, I poured all the essence of the comments that video would have into just one comment. enjoy.
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It makes me wonder why some channels attract mostly good comments and others seem to attract only the trashy ones.
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Congratulations! You qualify to work for our government.
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TOO OLD
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Police states learned marketing: leave the velvet glove on more.
Anyway, this is not your grandfather's crude overt police state: totalitarians learn too. It's cheaper and easier in the long run to soothe you with phrases like "Don't Be Evil" while building a surveillance system for your everyday activities beyond anything the Stasi had. They spy on your email with your supposed agreement. They trick you with bright multi-colored logo: who's cynical enough to be suspicious of it? With the hook of a commercial front providing actually useful services, a worldwide SPY AGENCY lulls most to sleep. But as this shows, if coaxing doesn't work, they'll still pull out the machine guns.
The freedoms you take for granted today were death penalty treason in 1776. Don't let the Inherited Rich restore feudalism. Pull them down with high taxes on unearned income -- and ZERO taxes on wages, they HATE that!
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Must be a Christmas Miracle.
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Compare to Antebellum Days
Compare to the Code of Virginia 1849,
Title 54. Crimes and Punishments,
Chap. 192. Of offences against property.
Sec.26. Master of vessel receiving runaway slave. What evidence of offence.
If the master or skipper of any vessel knowingly receive on board any runaway slave, and permit him to remain on board without proper effort to apprehend him, he shall be confined in the penitentiary not less than two and not more than five years; and if such slave be on board such vessel after leaving port, the master or skipper shall be presumed to have knowingly received him.
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We stop and surrender our rights to the "officer"...
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And a lot of other stuff the U.S.A. is building up.
Child molesting officers are not what the Nazis were about. If you want to look for fascism in the U.S., you've got a lot better telltale signs.
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Why, just why ?
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Of COURSE you're a truther too. There's zero evidence for evolution, but 9/11 was a false flag attack. Oh my lord, you are too much.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkO0lZ7BZJc
How blind must you be to believe that two jets can disintegrate two towers with steel frames plus pancake another and without even hitting it?
In order for evolution to even get off the ground, there would need to be first life ...and it would need to be able to procreate somehow. Just one question: how do you go from zero life to life through natural process? Maybe you can answer.
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Stop
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Go insane
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The video is even misleading...
That's not a metal detector you go through, it's a naked body scanner - hope you've got your underwear on today!
Ah, the baby bottle...more likely they'll just dump it out and hand it back to you.
If you're extra lucky, like my wife, you'll set off the scanner and they'll take you in the "back room" for extra service, er... patdown.
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Is it just me or does that sound very pedophilish?
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9/11
The United States Government is completely out of fucking control.
Freedom is overrated when you're trying to protect your positions of power, receiving of public funds and excusing every action that subverts justice.
Oversight is a protection racket. Checks are bouncing. The scales are laden with drugs and the blindfold is for the public.
"A republic, if you can keep it." -Benjamin Franklin
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gather round little chilrens
Good to know the brain washing begins early.
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One of these things is not like the other. Within a certain radius of ground zero, obviously total destruction occurs. Within a wider radius, a substantial amount of damage is done from thermal flash burns and from a shock wave that follows the thermal flash by some seconds. If a nuclear attack was anticipated, "duck and cover" would protect from the thermal flash burns, since even a regular building wall would block the energy. Even if the attack was un-anticipated, getting down on the ground (vs. going to the window to see what the flash was) would protect from shrapnel and broken windows propelled by the shock wave.
Source: Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_and_cover
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"Child grooming comprises actions deliberately undertaken with the aim of befriending and establishing an emotional connection with a child, to lower the child's inhibitions in preparation to sexually assault the child, or to exploit the child."
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What about this one?
"He's just checking that Mommy hasn't hidden anything where you poop, honey."
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The baby bottle is greater than 4 ounces, causing the entire family to be subjected to embarrassing patdowns, making the children cry and the family miss their flight, all in the name of fighting undefined people who want to hurt you.
It's stuff like this that makes me want to blow something up.
(Just kidding, NSA!)
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