Perhaps if they had designed the technology to allow the scanned individual to strike a more dignified or defiant pose? I think “ritual” assigns more gravity to this whole thing than it warrants.

Also you’ve seen the images these things produce, yeah? An abstracted nude stripped of identifying features is, for me, not…

They check your bags at Disney parks. Are they violating the fourth amendment?

My fourth amendment rights were recently violated when I attended a concert and had to subject myself to a metal detector wanding. Is that how this works?

Maybe it’s the haughtiness of the prose that struck me, more than the volume of words. I also had a hard time because when I read “submission ritual” — which is a really good name for a 90's death metal album so thank you — my eyes involuntarily rolled into the back of my head and I had to have someone else read me…

I’m not sure I can make my disinterest in continuing this any plainer. Do you have any sources to back up your claim that the founders were actually emulating England and engineered the constitution to gradually erode and at some future date undo the liberties they superficially fought to include? The only reason I…

I’ve never had either seized at an airpot so, dunno.

::INCREDIBLY RUDE YAWNING::

Yes... clearly. Anyway enjoy the bus, I’ve never heard anything nice about it.

100%

It caught up to us and all anyone can do is scream about security theatre and the creeping surveillance state.

yikes that’s a lot of words friendo

It sounds like you aren’t ready to handle the rigors of basic air travel so I think bus is probably best anyway.

this is a laughably short-sighted question

lmao no

Well that’s settled, then.

Ah, so the ninth Amendment can be broadly applied to any single thing. That reminds me! Just this morning, my right to blast down the road at 70 mph was brutally infringed by a vast governmental overreach via speed limit signs. Can I skip straight to the Supreme Court or do I have to do the whole circuit of appeals…

Are what?

That’s a good point. And since no one has pulled a D.B. Cooper in a long time they should probably ditch metal detectors, too.

What basic right is being relentlessly violated, in air travel?

If only we had waited for the airlines to form their own rigorous regulatory agency instead of that dumb ol’ FAA.

There have been metal detectors at some schools for a long time. None of this is new.