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Or they would have if there any such thing existed! Johnny on the spot Traffic Security Administration agents at Lubbock Airport were quick to discard the personal civil liberties of an individual for the sake of your security in the skies. Lord knows, If Mandi Hamlin would have been allowed to board her plane with her nipple rings still in her nipples, there could have been hell to pay.

As reported by Yahoo News, TSA agents stopped Mandi Hamlin when her nipple rings set off a metal detector wand passed over her breast by one of the agents. She was ordered to remove the nipple rings. She explained that they were difficult to remove and offered to show them to the agents to verify that they were, as she claimed, merely jewelry, but the agent claimed that he “wasn’t allowed to look”.

Agents waited on one side of a ’screen’ behind which Hamlin was ordered to remove her jewelry, which meant of course, disrobing above the waist. She had difficulty removing one of the rings, to the point of needing to borrow pliers no less, and was humiliated as more and more agents gathered and snickered on the other side of the screen. With her high profile attorney Gloria Allred, Hamlin has demanded an apology from the TSA.

When humans follow regulations as if they were computers acting on program inputs, without discretion, they become monsters. When did we turn our public servants turn into these scary, unthinking, automatons? Why could they not have had a female TSA agent look to verify that the jewelry wasn’t dangerous? If it was so damn important that she remove all metal from her body, why not allow her some real privacy such as a closed dressing room?

Does the TSA have a policy against nipple rings? Nope! I checked the entire list of prohibited items on the TSA’a official website [ TSA.GOV ] so why was Hamlin ordered to remove hers?

What’s the big deal you ask? I’ll explain:

Piercings are painful to get and can take a year or more to fully heal. When you remove a piercing that is not yet healed, you may need a professional to re-insert the jewelry safely. The jewelry itself is unconventional as well. Most nipple rings are closed using a ball called a captive bead, which is held in place by pressure from the ring. Depending on the size of the jewelry, pliers may be needed to relieve the pressure and release the bead. Even then, it is painful to pull the ring from a site that is not fully healed.

Is this what we have come to? What POWER Osama Bin Laden has in our daily lives! I’m getting on a plane tomorrow. I have piercings in my tongue, nipples, navel and yes, even down there (called a Prince Albert or PA for short)! I am a frequent flier and I’ve not been stopped yet but then Mandi said that she never had either. What if they do stop me? Because of the double standard for men and women in our society, I can simply lift my shirt for my nipple rings but what about the Prince Albert?

Which do I surrender – my plane ticket or my dignity? If I get a reasonable agent, maybe I get on my plane, if not, I go to jail. Stay tuned folks…