Start reading about what the TSA is doing in the US, this is happening to US citizens and visitors.Love_Young said:
You would reconsider when it happens to you. I have suffered the indignity and it is not pleasant.JimM said:
Bullshit, by your definition I've been assaulted going to concerts since I was a kid.Baloo said:
Of course all professions have workers that overstep their boundaries but that doesn't mean it is right or that we don't have a right to blame the government. They are the ones hiring the workers and should not be putting their citizens in subject of any people like that. Now I am sure that some overreact naturally but why does that give them the right to be called an idiot. If having respect for my body and not wanting to be touched in inappropriate places makes me an idiot than I must be a big one. If they are actually sexually assaulted it doesn't diminish victims of the other crimes, they went through similar things. No matter how small or big, it is still wrong and shouldn't be done. People have a right to overreact if they feel their privacy is being taken advantage of.JimM said:
Clearly someone squeezing your testicles in a public area cause you no problem.JimM said:
Love young, that just reminded me of a story ... When I was living in Edinburgh (I am also a UK citizen born in Canada) I was working in a pub. There was a guy sitting there and I asked him what he wanted to drink.. He asked for a Budweiser. I asked him where he was from as I couldn't place his accent 100% as it seemed to be a mismash of many. He said he was from Canada - completely not convinced, I asked him from where. When he told me he was from Toronto however on the weekends he liked to 'swing by Vancouver to ski' as there were no real ski hills in Toronto and go clubbing in Montreal on other weekends... I knew he was full of it... turns out.. he was from Michigan. I felt really bad for him. When I called him on it, he said he always wanted to travel through Europe but felt he had to tell people he was from Canada as people were nicer to him.... As nice as it is to take the compliment, it is sad that there are a few of our neighbours that are ruining it for the rest of their own country - and when I say this, I mean the media and some people who feel their opinion is the only one that matters making it difficult to hear the ones that actually do.Love_Young said:
I went through the x-ray scanner.Baloo said:
My sister just returned from a vacation to the States. She's unable to enter the Xray because she has a pacemaker and shes advised not too. She's a very liberal open girl but the so called "patdown" she had to experience has actually made her not want to fly through there again. It was wayyyyy overly invasive, genitals were touched. So yep she won't visit again.JimM said:
One of the things that Canada has to keep reminding america is the 9/11 crazies did not arrive via Canada.patiently_waiting said:
Aww that is so sad that he actually felt he had to do that but sadly I would think about doing the same depending on where I visit. The looks I get sometimes just saying I am from the US are some I would like to forget. But the US is my home and no matter how some may not like that, that doesn't change the love I have for it or that I was born there. I may not agree with everything my country may do but really who does always agree with everything their country does? All bad points aside, I still love my home and country.patiently_waiting said:
