[lancewiggs]

I feel sad that you find being crotch-groped by anyone acceptable, let alone someone who has asserted legal authority to do so. Would you like your 13 year old son and daughter to be exposed to the same process? How about someone who has been a victim of abuse? Yes it's amazing to fly through the air, but the US airports, security and airlines do the level best to convert that miracle into torture.

[a_c_s]

I never said crotch-grabbing was acceptable. I said that compared to being frisked by the police the TSA pat-downs I have experienced were unobtrusive. Given this, the outrage towards the TSA seems disproportionate, especially given that the TSA only affects people who fly whereas police tactics affect everyone in the country.

Is there a disparity or is it that Slashdot and HN post articles about TSA abuses but not non-technical police abuses? Most people don't even seem to think frisking is an abuse of power, (though it seems like you may disagree with that), so why the outrage at the TSA but not the police?