
Humiliation was not the only feeling entered my mind when the so-called strip search happened to me at the airport security point.
The procedure for this process is extremely demanding.
A person must have their necessarily removable clothes in the public and all possessions taken away for examination. Then, a x-ray body scanner will scan the person comprehensively, giving a holistic naked view of the body to the airport.
However, this picture unsafely divulging every body part failed to satisfy the security, introducing another step to this procedure.
From now on, every person has to go through the physical strip search.
Some say this approach will necessarily guarantee their safe flight better.
As a person who has experienced this hands-on strip search, the process did not seem to produce such a relieving effect. Instead, I felt an outrage for such demands and longer line to wait. Most people also did not look so content waiting in an extensive line to have their body searched physically and mechanically.
Perhaps, the security checks at American airports have recognized the ridiculous aspects of this search violating the very basic human rights such as privacy. On a small, almost ignorable sized sign, it noted that people were free to ask for “private” strip search.
Can’t they understand that I just wanted to fly safe, not to feel the degradation through the so-called strip search?
