Imagine strange hands on your body, violating your privacy and dignity. Naturally, you will scream, 'Take your filthy paws off me!'
In a
procedure called 'Pat-down', introduced after the attempted
'crotch-bombing' of a Delta flight by a Nigerian terrorist, the
Transportation Security Administration (TSA) in the USA has been working
overtime with its hands, groping airline passengers for imaginary
bombs, grenades, pistols and knives! The 'Pat-downs' are mandatory
for those who opt out of full body X-ray scans suspected of being
carcinogenic, and those who fail the body scans, because of an
innocuous metallic buckle in the belt or a fastener in their
attire. Some say, the TSA agents deliberately make the 'Pat-downs' unpleasant, so that the passengers prefer full body scans, the next time they fly.
Our
former Defence Minister (2002), former President (2009), and more
recently the Ambassador to the United States and the Envoy to the UN have had to suffer the indignity of provocative frisking.
I
wonder, what the Americans were trying to find? Something that
Obama, Hilary or Michelle did not possess?
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