Man protests airport security - naked
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I think might even be bad for children NOT to see naked people. It could indeed have a bad effect on them, I think, e.g. cause self-confidence issues when they grow up, because they wouldn't know what things are going to be like, if it's normal etc. Moreover, it allows for creation of totally unrealistic, photoshopped beauty ideals, because children/teens see (nearly) naked people mostly in some kind of highly altered adverts. Seeing the real thing brings them down to earth...
This happens in locker rooms here as well. How else do you change out of your swimming trunks?
The relevant bit there:
We read the challenged ordinance as focusing on the goal of regulating conduct which the city council has determined to be injurious to health, safety and morals, i.e., the prohibition of public nudity or indecent exposure not intended as a protected symbolic or communicative act. Id. at 82.
In other words, the court specifically acknowledged an exception to the ordinance in order to protect symbolic or communicative acts (the other alternative would have been to declare the entire ordinance unconstitutional, as it's fairly well established that no-exception bans on public nudity violate the first amendment), which this clearly was, so he should be fine.
Of course, all bets are off since this happened in an airport, because terrorism.
"This is quite a shock. He hasn't been under any stress that I know of. He's never really under any stress. He works for a computer company in California. He does something with the Internet, which is just kind of mystical to me. This is quite a surprise"
It's no surprise to me that he "does something with the internet". Who else would protest TSA procedures by walking through naked?
edit: Sorry, you're right. I somehow missed that in the article. I fully agree with you that he deserves to be supported, but regardless of his profession. If his actions get linked to his employer somehow, it could have a negative outcome on his career.
His father was willing to go on the record questioning his son's sanity and trivializing the stresses of his son's life. The tech community can do better for one of our own than that.
2. Submit to having your privates groped by an agent of the state.
3. Go through security fully nude.
Sadly #3 may actually be the least offensive option.
"Good for him" is an understatement.
1. I go online, and book my flight and my hotel.
2. The night before my flight, I set out all the items I wish to take with me.
3. I take a sleeping pill and go to sleep.
4. People from the airline come and transport me (still sleeping!) to the airport. They also take the stuff I set out.
5. I and all the other passengers are packed onto the flight. The only non-sleeping people are the flight crew, and medical technicians who monitor us, and make sure we are kept sleeping.
6. At the destination, passengers are delivered to their hotels, put into bed, their luggage is unpacked, and they are administered something to counteract the sleeping drugs.
So, from my point of view, I go to sleep in my bed in the Seattle area, the night before I need to be in San Francisco, and I then wake up the next morning in bed in my hotel in San Francisco. It would be like my bed has become a magical teleporter.
No security hassle. No airport to traffic to deal with. For those who fear flying, less to fear.
Yes, I know this isn't practical.
He might try use free speech as defense, trying to make a point by radical action (INAL)
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