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The letter starts innocently enough -
Dear Joel -
But, quickly digresses -
You’ve seen the news reports and heard the horror stories.
The TSA’s new “enhanced pat downs” (i.e. sexual assault searches) and their “advanced imaging technology” (i.e. naked scanners).
Leaked x-ray images of men and women that show their naked bodies have flooded the internet.
Screaming children have been groped and woman sexually assaulted.
And if that weren’t enough, TSA proudly trumpets their hiring policy of “Non-Discrimination.”
It’s the federal employee’s version of the Gay Bill of Special Rights and it’s infiltrated our government with the Transportation Safety Administration not excluded.
That means the next TSA official that gives you an “enhanced pat down” could be a practicing homosexual secretly getting pleasure from your submission.
Or it could be any sexual pervert, homosexual or heterosexual, or even pedophile that operates the “naked scanner”.
That means the next TSA official that operates the “porno scanners” you or your child or mother walk through could be lusting after the image on his screen.
The thought makes me sick.
But it’s all for your safety, they say.
It’s the terrorists. If you don’t submit to their humiliating fondling and photographing, the terrorists will win.
That’s hogwash and I won’t stand for it!
I want you to call your Senators and INSIST they respect the fact that:
1. Any unsolicited touching is assault.
2. Any unsolicited photography is an invasion of privacy.
Period. End of story.
Call the Congressional Switch Board at (202) 224-3121
Give the operator your state and say you have a message for your senators.
Thanks for standing up for our rights as we enter this holiday season.
Sincerely,
Eugene Delgaudio
President
Public Advocate of the U.S.
Ugh. Sorry, Eugene, but the pat-downs is not apart of the homosexual agenda. It is the direct result of the terrible combination of political correctness and willingly giving up our freedom and liberty our of fear.
Don’t give into fear here either.
Joel L. Watts holds a Masters of Arts from United Theological Seminary with a focus in literary and rhetorical criticism of the New Testament. His interests include exploring the role of mimesis in human civilization, specifically in the study of religion and media, as well as science fiction and the way in which it has allowed mythology to be explored in light of scientific discoveries of the past century. He is the author of Mimetic Criticism of the Gospel of Mark: Introduction and Commentary (Wipf and Stock, 2013) and a co-editor and contributor to From Fear to Faith: Stories of Hitting Spiritual Walls (Energion, 2013).
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I don’t buy some of the letter, but really, just don’t fly. I don’t anymore. I wince when I read about these stories. But, you are right Joel. It is political correctness and giving up personal freedoms. I really don’t think that any of these measures really make you more secure, it is just full employment for govt workers.
This was an actual personal email? or a generic one from the american family association?
so. sad.
My favorite thing is that this guy spends more time and energy thinking about explicit gay sex than I do, and I’m a “practicing homosexual”. I mean, come out of the closet already, Eugene! Sheesh!
And I absolutely LOVE the way he conflates the perpetuation of Bush-era terrorism hysteria with the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) or, as he boldly describes it, “The Gay Bill of Special Rights”. I wonder what he called it when it was passed originally and included protections for religion?
He so reminds me of the Squealer from Animal Farm–except gayer.
Robert J. Wilson,
I don’t know you, but I wish I did. You are hilarious and so right! Thanks for a hearty laugh!
I had speculated that it was a conspiracy of the enviro-fascists.
If getting on a plane can be made degrading enough, then people will stop flying and the spirits of the fossil fuels will remain undisturbed and in peace. Of course it might be that government officials have stock in California’s new high speed train.
Actually, he spends very little time justifying the ‘homosexual agenda’ claim. He could argue that it is part of a ‘sexual agenda’, but it would support straight sexual interest as well as gay. And ‘Screaming children have been groped’ implies that any physical contact is sexual, and in this context paedophile.
Sorry. It’s nonsense. It says a lot more about him and his fears than it does about the scanners and the reasons for their being there.
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