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considered crimes, only self-defence and collateral damage of war.
The Airport intrusive patdowns cannot be understood in isolation from the
two parallel contexts of "imperial mobilization" and "police state" which
cradle that act. The pat-downs are merely obedience training for the
American public.
Remember, TSA is authorized by the Homeland Security, which in turn is
authorized by the US Government, to subject its denizens to this – TSA is not
doing it on their own. It isn't clear to me whether deliberately inducing emotional
traumas, which to the victims do appear rape-like, among the passengers,
especially women, is part of the unwritten coercion policy of the Government to
get objecting peoples to accept the body-scan! It just seems extraordinary to me
that without tacit support, and directives from higher-ups, that anyone in their
right mind would do such molestation in such a public place with everyone
watching.
If you wish to understand how the various pieces fit together, you may find my
report pertinent:
Body-scan Alert - Not Suffering Indignities at Airports
Zahir Ebrahim
Project Humanbeingsfirst.org
Also posted as comment for Amy's article on September 7, 2011 5:24 AM:
http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2011/04/26/make_it_tough_t.html
References
Amy Alkon's Response article to my comment:
http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2011/09/07/obedience_train.html
My letter to Amy Alkon's attorney Marc Randazza: http://print-
humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2011/09/letter-civilrights-tsa-lawsuit-
randazza.html
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