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“Fleshmob” against virtual strip-search machines at Berlin airport

Don’t like being stripped naked by “whole body imaging” machines or “body scanners”, and then groped to determine whether what they see under your underwear is a padded bra, a mastectomy prosthesis, a menstrual pad, an adult diaper, … or plastic explosives?  You could sign this petition …  and/or you could organize your own “fleshmob” like this one at Tegel Airport in Berlin. (More links including videos of similar fleshmobs at other airports here.)

We invite you to compare what’s exposed by the Pirate Party fleshmob in the video above with what’s exposed to the TSA agents in the little room hidden behind the strip-search machines in the video below:

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5 Responses to ““Fleshmob” against virtual strip-search machines at Berlin airport”

  1. Papers, Please! » Blog Archive » Lessons from the case of the man who set his underpants on fire Says:
    January 12th, 2010 at 8:37 am

    [...] Press Room Contact Us Friends « He’s got a little list (and we’re on it) “Fleshmob” against virtual strip-search machines at Berlin airport [...]

  2. ShortWoman» Blog Archive » The Violent Shorties Says:
    January 12th, 2010 at 9:35 pm

    [...] Americans are Idiots: Most approve of the use of full body scanners. These scanners are much like a virtual strip search with a side order of radiation. Oh, and they would not have found the Undiebomber’s stash. [...]

  3. Consumer Travel Alliance » TSA’s nose grows as they explain whole-body scanners Says:
    January 14th, 2010 at 7:37 am

    [...] we have to be exposed to the TSA, maybe we should just expose ourselves when we get to the [...]

  4. What we’re watching: “Fleshmob” against strip search in Berlin, a new scanning system in Canada, the way it used to be Says:
    January 16th, 2010 at 4:02 pm

    [...] (More links including videos of similar fleshmobs at other airports here.) Originally published on PapersPlease.org. This Canadian scanner doesn’t have the problems of using x-rays and does not create an [...]

  5. Klaus Hansen Says:
    March 4th, 2010 at 1:06 pm

    Dieser Blog sieht wirklich sehr gut aus. Um sowas richtig geiles zu entwerfen muss man sich schon lange Zeit nehmen und ne Menge Ahnung haben.

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