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#2If you weren't alone, maybe things would of been different?
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#3When you go into the millimeter-wave machine and the TSA employee asks you to raise your arms, tell them that you can't, but don't elaborate (and they usually won't ask why).
Every time I've done this they let me go through the regular metal detector with no argument or subsequent pat downs or screening.
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#4Can someone please explain what's wrong with going through the machine? If it means not having my balls squeezed, it sounds pretty good to me.
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#5Can someone please explain what's wrong with going through the machine? If it means not having my balls squeezed, it sounds pretty good to me.
Because it's a strip search.
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#6Don't give up. You lost once. That doesn't mean you have to lose again.
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#7If you weren't alone, maybe things would of been different?
One of the lessons of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment was that people were much more likely to rebel if they weren't alone in doing so.
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#8I had a similar experience when traveling to the US with my German girlfriend (I am from the US). What I found even more disappointing is the way that other passengers negatively reacted to her choosing to opt-out and wait for the "pat down of shame".
I would be happy to see in the US a better public awareness of the amount of personal rights that we're forfeiting by simply passing through an airport.
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#9Can someone please explain what's wrong with going through the machine? If it means not having my balls squeezed, it sounds pretty good to me.
Consider the following: if that identical machine were in a hospital, it would have been required to go through years of clinical trials to ensure its safety over the long term. The machines they are using are medical equipment.
However, because it's in an airport, none of this has happened. Maybe it is safe. Maybe it isn't. It is unproven.
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#10I would write to LAWA about this (even though they will just refer you to the appropriate contact at TSA & you'll get a black hole with no reply). It's not cool to wait >30 min for a "male assist".