TSA, "nudie scanners," and invasive pat-downs

The agency should be renamed "T&A," if you catch my drift...

This has recently become my new Facebook profile pic.

[HT to my friend Kenny Ketner, who turned me on to the original activism by Reddit]

At least it answers the age-old question:





Videos:

• Saturday Night Live (2010:Nov.20). "Message from TSA." s36:e07. (Hulu) [transcript]
  
• Pirate Party Protests TSA in Underwear at airport (YouTube)
• Grandma Got Molested At The Airport (YouTube)
  

References:

• Jacob Sullum (2010:Dec.08). "Don't Scan Me Because I'm Beautiful," Reason.
  
• Glenn Greenwald (2010:Nov.24). "Anatomy of a journalistic smear job," Salon.
• David Boaz (2010:Nov.24). "Conservatives, Liberals, and the TSA," Cato@Liberty.
  
• Nick Gillespie (2010:Nov.23). "Q: Is this security theater? A: 100 percent. It won't catch anybody." Reason.
• [author] (2010:Nov.23). "Pedobear: The TSA's New Mascot?" Huffington Post.
• SNL (2010:Nov.20). "Message from TSA," Saturday Night Live. (Hulu)
  
• Mike [raldi] (2010:Nov.17). "A group of redditors is taking a stand against the new TSA rules," Reddit. [note: OperationGrabAss]
  
• Lauren Kelley (2010:Nov.17). "The 7 Creepiest Things About the TSA's 'Porno Scanners'," AlterNet.
  
• Nate Silver (2010:Jan.08). "Crunching the Risk Numbers," Wall Street Journal.
• http://volokh.com/2011/05/18/how-safe-are-tsa-body-scanners
  

Update1:

• http://www.yaliberty.org/posts/7-simple-reasons-to-axe-the-tsa

Miscellaneous:

• Jared DuBach (2011:Aug.26). "DA charges Spring Creek man with lewdness," Elko Daily Free Press.