Getting Naked for TSA

noway2

noway2

Senior Member
2A Bourbon Hound OG
Charter Life Member
Multi-Factor Enabled
Joined
Dec 16, 2016
Messages
21,499
Location
Onboard the mothership
Rating - 100%
5   0   0
Saw this article this morning and posted it here because it involves TSA screenings: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy...urity-screening-by-getting-naked-for-the-tsa/

An Oregon man who stripped naked at an airport security screening checkpoint must pay a $500 fine after a federal appeals court ruled that the First Amendment does not protect this method of protest.

The nude protest at Portland International Airport (PDX) by a traveler named John Brennan prompted legal action by both the federal government and the state of Oregon. Portland prosecutors charged him with indecent exposure. A local judge acquitted him, saying that Oregon cannot "punish" him for his nudity, which amounted to protest speech protected by the First Amendment.

Federal authorities also imposed a civil fine for violating a US law that prohibits "interference with screening personnel." The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals, siding with the government, ruled last week that the First Amendment is no defense to getting naked in a TSA security line.
Click to expand...

There seems to be some dispute about whether or not he really interfered with the screening personnel, or whether he was communicative in his "protest". Still it is an interesting case of State vs Federal power ...
 
Or he could have protested in a romper.... either way he'd still be an idiot.
 
Ya know... I am going to have to fly a couple times in the next month or two and I had pondered how to respond to violations of my person. I even considered not getting on the plan in protest, but I think I like this better. I'm going to have to buy a banana hammock for the occasion.
 
Interesting that the liberal 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals sided with the government - this case may have dawn the 3 conservatives on the circuit.
 
I had a thread a long time ago on what I was wearing to mess with TSA, I should start that again. It was pretty comical.
 
I refuse to fly anymore but if I had to I'd reek like a dead hobo when I got to security and go clean up in the restroom before I actually flew.

Like searching a dead badger on a mound of old cheese with the breeze from the upwind rendering and sewage plants ruffling his hair. Every crevice a discovery. A salty, sweaty, reeking, pungent discovery.

Taste the rainbow you jackbooted ****suckers.
 
Last edited:
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom