to keep me "safe."

I just can't do it.

Strip searching children, demanding to see breast prosthetics, bursting colostomy bags - it just keeps getting worse every time it comes up.

My family is scheduled to fly from Michigan to Florida in late January. If this isn't resolved by then in a sane, sensible manner, we won't go. I've managed to get through my entire adult life without having "naked pictures" taken, and I intend to do my best to keep that streak (pun intended) alive, and I will not consent to a stranger groping around either my groin or breasts, let alone let them near my 3 year olds.

If Bush was doing this, I'd be in open street revolt. I'm tempted to go the same way with Obama. If he and his people can't keep me "safe" for normal everyday activity - travel - without humiliating me, then I don't want him or his people in office because they are incompetent assholes.

The TSA folks who are being required to do this as part of their job have my sympathy, but at the same time "its just my job" has been used for millenia as an excuse for enabling inappropriate behavior; it doesn't fly (again, pun intended). I suggest they simply *STOP* and see what happens. My guess is nothing, but that comes from some pretty basic common sense.

So, this is my official notice: Obama - the information president who knows how to use GOOGLE - needs to start doing so. I don't know who is telling him this is "necessary" but they need to be fired. This is "the land of the free and the home of the brave" and we'll take a lot of crap to be "supportive" but Naked Pictures and Groin Checks are officially *MY* limit before I start seeing the TSA as terrorists, instead of a reasonable line of defense.

ON EDIT: (Made in a Comment, but really belongs in main post): If TSA has to see me naked or grope my private areas, you know what - I'm not safe. Job Fail, and You're Fired.