US politician: 'homosexual agenda' behind TSA groin grope A US politician says he's uncovered the real reason for the recently introduced groin-grabbing TSA patdowns. He claims they're part of the dreaded, morals-sapping, country-destroying homosexual agenda. "The next TSA official that gives you an 'enhanced pat down' could be a practicing homosexual secretly getting pleasure from …
Just between you and me, that's the silliest thing I heard all day. But if will get America's not inconsiderable population of homophobes to stand up for civil liberties, I'll play along...
Yep, that's totally the reason they're doing this. Have you noticed how they always have someone of the SAME SEX pat you down? How do you explain that if it's not part of the gay agenda? Hmm?
Because that's exactly what they are thinking.
Twitter user @FlyingwithFish has investigated TSA policy for months, including this new 'enhanced' pat-down procedure, and found that the TSA agents who have to perform the pat-downs would prefer not to have to. He also found that those in hysterics over the millimeter and backscatter machines and the enhanced patdowns are worried exactly over "who touches their junk" (in the parlance of one engineer who was subjected to it at San Diego Airport and who now potentially faces an $11,000 fine over his behaviour).
The hysterics over people of the same sex performing 'enhanced' pat-downs (nevermind the logic of "would you rather have a WOMAN touch your junk" or vice versa for female passengers) are becoming tiresome to be honest, and this politician is just taking ruthless advantage of this wave of righteous indignation to score points.
The guy's flipped, BUT there is a grain of truth hidden in his ranting.
We have same-sex pat downs precisely because of an assumption of heterosexuality, making the patdown unambiguously non-sexual. But now that society has accepted that this assumption is nonsense and that homosexuality is normal, we cannot assume that a same-sex patdown has no sexual connotations.
So surely it's time for an end to the same-sex patdown?
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I would pick him to be the next one caught in a two-man grope fest in a public bathroom, possibly complete with snorting cocaine off some male hooker's twig. We have a wonderful history in the US of the most strident anti-gay voices being the most closeted folks in this great nation.
Its going to be so hard to resist, doing the arm actions whilst being pat down... I really wish you hadn't of said that.... And now I'm going to be strangly/unexplicably drawn to the queue where the guy in uniform has a big tash... hopefully his colleagues will see the funny side rather than just drawing their sidearms..
There'd be none of us gays about if it wasn't for us breeding all the time. We're just like bunny rabbits in that regard. Evil bunny rabbits that make the baby jesus cry.
Do you think Delgaudio's been getting his biology lessons from the Texas education board perhaps?
Unfortunately he speaks TO a significant minority. Speaking as a straight guy; I've never really understood the anger and fear (two side of the same coin?) directed at homosexuality. I understand not wanting to be groped by a complete stranger who might be 'getting off' on it (assuming that the gropees are 'fit' enough to provide the requisite thrill) but really, what are the odds?
All things considered, when I really think about it, I think I'd rather someone groping me that enjoyed it over someone who didn't, if I have to be groped by a stranger. Maybe the TSA should seek out homosexual chubby chasers for the enhanced pat downs; then, at least, someone could be enjoying themselves. It would certainly de-stress the situation somewhat.
Aide? No, more likely a male prostitute - someone like this guy would have to PAY for someone to be with them, I cannot imagine there would be any willing volunteers.
But yes, foregone conclusion that this guy is no different than the majority of other 'phobes and has more than an unhealthy interest in what gay men get up to in the privacy of their own bedrooms.
@jcipale: "An IDIOT nonetheless."
...a Useful Idiot to somebody Above Him, all the way up to but not past the Gates of Heaven. (Mammon Factor prevents entry.) Profitable Connivance all the way up; Useful Idiocy all the way down.
At least when it's turtles, it's nothing but *turtles* all the way up... And all the way down too.
Paris. She knows from Being Used for her Useful Idiocy, no doubt about it. Knowing does not stop it... And that is all. ;)
Just how often do these gay-bashing homophobes turn out to be closet queers (no disrespect to gay people intended)? What a bunch of hypocrites! I admit - I have been attracted to men in the past, as well as many more women, and I have been married to the same woman for almost 37 years! Sex just is - don't try to analyze it!
I have no interest at all in gay men, but unlike this politico, I don't feel threatened in the slightest by them. Why should I? The best evidence I could find is this analysis from the OKcupid dating site, which supports my view:
http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/gay-sex-vs-straight-sex/
Maybe he needs to get out more...
I thought that kind of language had gone when we left the1970s, although judging by the photo the only bit of Delgaudio that hasn't stayed there is his hair dye/toupee. I do find it amusing when people like him say that gay men might come onto him, as it were. Does he consider himself attractive to members of the same sex?
They consider the homosexual condition to be a result of indoctrination.
Therefore they 'multiply' by corrupting God's own people (on the 'straight' and narrow-minded path).
To believe this was possible, one would have to have a pretty strong sense that ones own self would be corruptible in the presence of such opportunity!
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I love the arrogance that this guy assumes that any gay guy could be desperate enough to be interested in him? He couldn't get that lucky surely?
Most people assume that gay people have good taste... he needs to get those milk bottle bottoms refocused and look in a mirror and realise that anyone who touches him would do so only when absolutely necessary.. or maybe as an extremely generous act of charity... after a LOT of alcohol. Hell I think even a hooker would want extras!
If that County Supervisors job is an elected post you would have to wonder about a community that would elect a guy like this... or if his personal prejudices are allowed to influence his ability to carry out his employment functions evenly.. (what the hell does a county supervisor do anyhow? - apart from spouting drivel like this )
Bit of an oxymoron there?
If I had to explain basic biology to an idiot like this, it would be like teaching a pig to sing
But hell I'd rather be patted / groped down by a member of the Rainbow parade than a parochial Politico. With politicians you just don't know where they've been, and they expect you to buy them a drink first.
But as other posters have said, if it puts the willies up the TSA, I'm grudgingly going to accept that this cloud may have a slightly tarnished silver lining
"The next TSA official that gives you an 'enhanced pat down' could be a practicing homosexual, caressing your privates with his slender hands, his rippling biceps straining under his tight shirt, his strong chest brushing against you, secretly getting pleasure from your submission," Loudoun County, Virginia, supervisor Eugene Delgaudio wrote in an email to his followers in the conservative organization Public Advocate, of which he is president.
Perhaps we are all misunderstanding him - perhaps like me he's just trying to justify having his bollocks grabbed by a sexy TSA girl instead. Ideally in a specially designed, split crotch leather uniform with high heels and a peephole bra.
Now that would make me feel much better when I go through airport security
...does that count as breeding? Seems like, particularly in the case of homosexual men and surrogate mothers, you're opting out of one of the most difficult bits, carrying the baby. And how do both homosexual men get dna into the child with a surrogate mother? Sounds more like one homosexual man breeding with a woman to me....
Don't get me wrong, I love the gayers, but to claim that they can breed seems a bit of an exaggeration....
Presumably if online pr0n and World of Warcraft had been around when he was a spotty, bespectacled and friendless little shit living in his Mom's basement, with nothing to look forward to other than having his lunch money nicked the next day, he'd have grown up as a normal, well-adjusted bloke.
Why is it that so many of these virulently homophobic idiots get caught soliciting undercover policemen in public toilets, or get photographed going on holiday with rent boys? When they get caught of course they proclaim they were "researching" homosexuality or something similarly pathetic.
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>>"Gays can't espouse tolerance and diversity and inclusion when all they seem to do is marginalize and make fun of everyone who doesn't agree with them 110% of the time."
I'm not sure that any I know do that.
Sure, there may be a small but possibly fairly visible minority who are militantly gay, though as yet, I haven't heard of many of them gathering to kick the shit out of straight couples caught dogging, or suggesting that anything but gay sex should be punishable by a death sentence.
While I may personally find the odd person going out of their way to be 'outrageous' pretty rapidly gets tiresome outside the appropriate contexts, there are tiresome people in pretty much any subgroup of humanity I can think of, including the subgroups I belong to.
>>"Being made fun of and marginalized for their beliefs. It's only fair gays show the respect to others that they demand from the world."
Beliefs?
I'm not sure I know many people who chose to be gay because it was 'a lifestyle they believed in'.
It's not like choosing one human invention over another, like a variety of computer or a brand or sub-brand of religion.
"If gays wanted to be taken more seriously they would stop acting like spoiled children when they don't get their way each and every time and learn to listen to those who oppose and work toward a workable solution"
And WTF is this "workable solution" you speak of? Most gays (and, indeed, others who enjoy forms of "alternative sexuality") simply want other people to *MIND THEIR OWN DAMN BUSINESS* and stop trying to tell them what they should or shouldn't do based on the critics' view of what is "right and proper".
The majority of gays don't make arrogant pronouncements like this guy has, they just want to be left alone to live their own lives in peace and quiet, but if some prat opens their big mouth and starts implying that eg gay = paedophile then they get all the derision they deserve.
> "Not to put too fine a point on it, but mayhap Supervisor Delgaudio doth protesteth too much."
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> Methinks ElReg probably has a pretty good handle on the situation ...
Except that it should be "doth protest" or "protesteth", not a combination of the two.
Apart from that little bit of hair-splitting, I agree wholeheartedly.
In spite of the view of popular media, which lets face it, is some kind of gay sancturary for gays. I say it's a pretty safe bet that men don't want other men "touching their junk".
You might as well say the same about a male TSA feeling up a woman and say, "well guess what!!! he might be HETROsexual....get over it!"
Pathetic double standards.
I don't give a shit if they say they can do their job or not, I don't want some guy "touching my junk" as part of a routine security check.
"What about male doctors treating women?"
What about them? Since you don't seem to know, TSA security goons are not doctors and if you think for some reason they come under the same banner as them, you're an idiot. The same kind of idiot that thinks all this stuff is A OK.
I couldn't care less if YOU go and submit to have your cock and balls felt by some jumped up security guard who may or may not be gay, but don't for a minute think that just because you're willing to stoop that low, I am too.
In any other situation exept a medical one, it would be classed as rape. Remember that.
>>"What about them? Since you don't seem to know, TSA security goons are not doctors..."
Well, I'm sure you've enlightened everyone here with your amazing inside knowledge.
Do you think that doctors are all above sexual excitement, whereas peasants aren't?
>>"In any other situation exept a medical one, it would be classed as rape "
Whoever was doing it, presumably, if there wasn't a reason for it, and you didn't consent.
So what's the Big Deal about the 'they could be gay' thing, which, if you hadn't noticed, is the whole point of the article.
Isn't there a sharp contrast between the two (medic vs TSA'er) vis a' vis the Mutual Consent factor... as well as Genuine Actual Necessity? (Having recently put up with a couple of American Corporatized Healthcare MDs doing Aggressive Medical Theater on YT (the patient) instead of actually providing Medical Therapy under the System, one feels deeply for the involuntary Security Theater Audience.)
Badgers' Paws. In recognition of some Things Held in Common.
And that is all! :)
As an ex-nurse I can confidently say that I never once felt sexual arousal in dealing with any patient of any age. I dealt with people of all ages in various states of undress, and often had to administer treatments to the private regions of naked attractive people. I always offered women the option of a female nurse, but I never offered the same choice to men, though men were never offered (to my knowledge) an opposite choice by female colleagues.
In any case, invariably, women were not at all bothered as what I was doing was my job, not copping a feel. Do you honestly think that people get sexual kicks out of this sort of thing?
Craig, I'd be suprised if they did get sexual kicks tbh but it takes all sorts.
Having said that, if it was my job to have a good feel of womens breasts as they were on their way through an airport checkpoint..... then well...
You say you offered female patients the option of a female nurse. Why did you do that? Was it because you wanted to make sure YOU didn't get aroused? Of course not.
Also, I don't buy the idea that doctors & nurses are the same as TSA employees. In your situation you have a patient who entrusts themselves to your care. The TSA just want to treat everyone like cattle.
Not something I'll submit to.
You can always count on the backwards American politicians to say something like this.
America - home of the free, as long as you're not black, a woman or gay.
Britain has the right idea morally compared to them, first to ban slavery, first to allow gays in the army, first to allow females to vote, first to give blacks rights, first to give gay partnerships, first to give gay rights.
America is morally bankrupt from this side of the pond.
in performance of expected role is all that is required. sexuality, gender, race, religion and all our other individual differences should not matter one iota.
I do except there are those who would prefer body searches to be performed by the same gender. However, an invasion of privacy is still an invasion of privacy regardless of whom does the invading.
Some choice perhaps: "how would you like to be groped today, straight or gay, male or female?". I am sure we all have our own preference.
Why is there a rule about male on male and female on female pat downs. Are they saying that there is a sexual element to the pat down, if not why does it matter the sex or sexual orientation of the person conducting the search?
I for one would much prefer to be patted down by a member of the opposite sex as they are more gentle and less likely to break any of my delicate parts...
I hope you're British to ask such a question. Americans are obsessed with, and dreadfully afraid of, sex or anything that can be remotely related to it. To the point of absolute, appalling, irrationality. If it can be interpreted in a sexual way, it will be. We are all Beavis and Butt-Head:
- People are objecting to the scanners not because they're being exposed to low levels of ionizing radiation on a regular basis, but because they might be seen in naked blurry unidentifiable pictures.
- People cannot conceive of a person of the opposite sex patting them down in a non-sexual manner.
- People worry about pat-downs of children because pedophiles might enjoy it, not because the children might be frightened and confused by such treatment.
My father had a great quote:
"Turn on the TV at any time of the day or night, switch through the channels, and you're guaranteed to find a man with a gun in his hand. Do the same thing, and you're guaranteed never to find a man with his dick in his hand. Now, consider, which is the healthier behavior?"
I am always amused by American horror movies: You can show a woman having a spike shoved through her eye or having her heart cut out and get just a "Restricted" rating (under 17 admitted with parent or guardian), but if you show an erect penis it's an immediate X/NC-17/whatever-they're-using-now.
Americans and sex. It's a wonder we manage to reproduce.
They wont show a tit on tv but these insidious pat downs have got to be givethem a false sense of security and power...
And those who show how much power they seem to have actually have none, and are probably sad people who go home and stand in the shower for hours on end and drink heavily at the thought of going back to work for the great democracy that is the Paranoid states of Insania the USA
A granade cos the wiki leaks guy may need one after making the whole of the us government do the same thing for the first time in history ..... SHIT them selves HAHAHAHAHA
>>"The next TSA official that gives you an 'enhanced pat down' could be a practicing homosexual... "
To be honest, given a choice, I'd probably prefer a practicing one over one who either can't get laid or who is filled with self disgust or celibate longings.
I'd have thought that a quick businesslike check would be better than some extended period of nervous fumbling.
Men having sex! Disgusting, sweaty, sordid man-sex! Man-bits being rubbed together, man-bits being thrust into other man-bits, thrust hard and urgently, thrust again and again and again and... uuuuuuuuurhhhh.
Why won't these gays let me stop thinking about them having sex? Why won't they give me a moment's respite from these images in my head?
Indeed.
I do wonder why some people get so worked up about what other adults do in private.
When I hear a 'Christian' guest house' owner complaining that they're not allowed to be homophobic any more, I wonder if they'd just be better off being entirely honest and putting up a warning on their advertising that they simply find themselves unable to avoid spending all their time imagining their guests having sex.
Just another weaselly, extremist, self-serving politician who isn't fit for any office.
If it was his preferred shower of useless bastards who were in the White House right now, he'd be hailing the pervo-scanners and groin groping as a win against those "evil terra-ists".
Cucking funt. Just like all the rest of 'em.
I'm a "crotch groping queer that breeds in special breeding grounds and I enjoy holding hands with my practicing-homosexual partner and skipping over to the adoption agency for a little boy to adopt" (gosh it even sounds stupid when I say it), but NO amount of money in the world would ever make me want to grope this fugly bitches crotch.
Seriously. LOOK AT HIM! What a total vomit-fest. I wonder what his wife and kids look like and I can only feel sorry for them. Anyone have any links to share?
What a most delicious irony! I noted that the address of the Public Advocate office [1] is in close proximity to a porn shop (MVC Late Nite) [2] (I know 'cause I work nearby). Must make it convenient for Mr. Delgaudio to get his fix.
The beer's for choosing such a great location -- cheers!
P.S. It's even more ironic that MVC used to have the street-facing store front to the building Public Advocate's in! Mr. Delgaudio didn't even have to leave the building!
[1] http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=5613+Leesburg+Pike,Falls+Church,+VA+22041&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=47.569986,68.90625&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=5613+Leesburg+Pike,+Falls+Church,+Fairfax,+Virginia+22041&ll=38.846978,-77.12353&spn=0.01103,0.016823&z=16&iwloc=A&layer=c&cbll=38.848486,-77.125238&panoid=BjQyiltmkLagVFuB9pWIKQ&cbp=12,195.27,,0,5.03
[2] http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=5625+Leesburg+Pike,Falls+Church,+VA+22041&sll=38.848612,-77.126025&sspn=0.011564,0.016823&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=5625+Leesburg+Pike,+Falls+Church,+Fairfax,+Virginia+22041&ll=38.848612,-77.126025&spn=0.011497,0.016823&z=16&layer=c&cbll=38.848612,-77.126025&panoid=fFvoQbEtafHCi8M6rWcVdg&cbp=12,212.7,,0,5
"...although the hugely hetero hero makes $40,000 a year as a county supervisor, he pulls in $150,000 as president of an organization whose website proudly proclaims its mission to include "defending the rights of fathers, mothers and children to live their lives free from government intrusions"
So, could one of you guys explain again how he's an idiot? Maybe you can tell us how much you make from your hobbies?
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