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Airport Warning on Film
Question:
> http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/cfrhtml_00/Title_14/14cfr108_00.html and > click 108.209 and read paragraph (e), which says among other things … "If > requested by individuals, their photographic equipment and film packages shall > be inspected without exposure to an X-ray system. " > The problem is that the screeners in many airports either don’t know the rules > or refuse to follow them.
And either way, 9 times out of ten, quoting FAA regs to these dolts guarantees you will get the ‘full treatment’ from them and their guardsman buddies. I carry film in a transparent zip-lock bag, removed from the canisters. To be fair, the majority of screeners are OK with this not going ‘inspecting’ it, then I just politely remark they are wrong, shrug and let them do their thing. No worse off than having left it in the camera bag to start with. B.
Response:
- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text ->> here’s an exerpt from FAA/DOT Reg. 108.209, which covers the right to hand >> inspection of film & cameras: >Is there a place to find this on a website in an offical PDF or something? > http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/cfrhtml_00/Title_14/14cfr108_00.html and > click 108.209 and read paragraph (e), which says among other things … "If > requested by individuals, their photographic equipment and film packages shall > be inspected without exposure to an X-ray system. " > The problem is that the screeners in many airports either don’t know the rules > or refuse to follow them. > Here’s an article in a Phoenix newspaper describing the claims of numerous > women that they are singled out for "hand" inspection and groped, fondled and > basically sexually assaulted by screeners. No wonder screeners are too busy to > bother with wasting time hand-checking film when you can cop a free feel on a > good looking woman.
The Transportation Secretary has no problem with opposite gender intimate searches. It has I must confess turned into the ‘let me feel your body and I will tear up the traffic ticket’ kind of scenario. It is another sad chapter in American policing, it is a type of policing. However opposite gender intimate searches are not against the DOT or FAA rules. They might be vile and disgusting, illegal, unlawful, sexual abuse or unconstitutional, they’re almost certainly a violation of both the VCCR and ICCPR treaties. However they are part of the official program. Sex predators became aware of the opportunities and were giving each other career advice as to their best options, they work nursing homes, schools, jails and juvenile facilities and boot camps and so on and so forth. THe airport scam was a flash in the pan thing for them – or so it seemed. Seemingly the authorities are not going to close it down. All DOT had to do was say STOP! However that is not to be. It will have to go to court. Trying to complain about a sexual assault by an airport security guard was virtually impossible, even female flight crew were sexually abused.