To be stripped or not to be stripped

Daria Mondesire, one of many, states that minorities bare the brunt of examination, and I for one agree with her. Most of the people that are being strip searched  are  a minority race.  This is unfair and shows  racial profile of our security system. What if someone  has been raped as in this case with Mondesire? It brings back flashes of something tragic that happened.  It is also invasion of privacy, which is given to us by the fourth amendment.  Also, the security officer conducting these strip searches could be perverted. In this case he is molesting people and that too is  against the law.  Over all I agree with Mondesire that racial profiling should not be a reason to strip search individuals only being based on suspicion or evidence.

Security Vs. Privacy

 

 

 

Having also felt violated by airport security MonDesire and I are on the same page when it comes to believing searches can invade a person privacy, not to mention there "random" checks don't seem so random, and airport employees unfriendly demeanor adds to the discomfort and can make anyone think twice before traveling again. The level of privacy invasion is at an all time high when being searched, around thanksgiving of last year for instance a little twelve year old girl was taken back for a strip search and when she returned, after a long period of time, she ran to her mom with her eyes filled with tears, body trembling and the only words that could come out of her mouth was, "they did bad things to me." Whether or not those accusations were true for a twelve year old girl being striped down unwillingly feels like a bad thing and when her and her mother proceeded to complain to a supervisor all he said was, "I'm sorry I cant help you." And as for there so called "random checks," Brad found out they weren't so random in the year 2010. As he was waiting in line he could clearly see the men in blue uniforms picking out there prey like it was a game to them, he even heard one of them point at him and say "He's a chump lets mess with him." Sure enough brad was "randomly searched," and when he asked them why they chose him the response he got was, "Your going to the US so that means we can do what we want." Both instances brad and that twelve year old little girl were violated in some way and when they asked for an explanation all they got in return was blatant disrespect. So next time you go to the airport keep in mind your rights of privacy go out the window and security can apparently do as they please.   

NO ONE! (MonDesire Article Reply)

NO ONE!

Racism is still amongst us! In response to the article written by MonDesire I would have to agree and disagree with her. The reasoning behind such is because I believe in human respect. Although I believe no one deserves to be handled against their will, the security and government have to assure everyone is safe aboard ships, planes, buses, trains, etc. I understand that MonDesire feels as if the security was being prejudiced against her because she is an African American. The sequence of searching is random! Granting if someone looks like a “potential courier” then they shall be searched immediately. Famous citizens of America are often over looked and exempt from the normal searches of everyday citizens. I agree that favoritism is shown in the United States towards famous individuals. In all certainty as an American Citizen I believe the officers were just doing their jobs! I believe no one is bigger than the country and all are equal and have equal opportunity.

Stripped of more than my clothes

"Stripped of More than My Clothes" I find that actually pretty hard to believe when it was a part of the security at the airports job just take make sure that every one is safe from everything. Drugs and weapons and other things of that nature. I mean I can understand where she is coming from in the article when she was actually getting searched because men/women act different when it comes down to being striped searched. When she brought up that she was "black" it don't make that into a racial thing because it is a random pick no matter if you are white, black, Indian or from any other decent. In my opinion I really think she over reacted when she wrote this article because the airport security was just trying to do there job and they didn't mean any harm by it.