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Video: Taiwanese CGI Animation on TSA "Airport Rage"
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John Del Signore
Published Nov 17, 2010
Modified Nov 17, 2010
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The highbrow American media has been uniformly ignoring the widespread outrage over the TSA's new "porno scanners," but thankfully we have the Taiwanese Next Media Animation to report on this vital story that might have otherwise fallen through the cracks. It seems Americans nationwide are flying into "airport rage" over the TSA's Total Sexual Assault on travelers, who get a "patdown in a private room" if they refuse the full body imaging scanners. SPOILER: Al-Qaeda is pointing at our privates and laughing at us, y'all!
Next Wednesday, the big travel day before Thanksgiving, has been designated National Opt-Out Day by critics, who are encouraging travelers to refuse the scanning and require the time-consuming pat down instead. It's gonna be fun! The movement caught fire earlier this week when a viral video showed a blogger telling a security screener, "If you touch my junk, I'm gonna have you arrested." And another blogger in Dayton, Ohio is making a big stink because she says an improperly trained TSA employee touched her breasts, buttocks, vagina area and "both of my labia." Well, it's a living. [Via Laughing Squid]
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John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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