Posted on 11/26/2010 8:52:22 PM PST by greatdefender
ORLANDO, Florida -- The head of the Transportation Security Administration said the agency will look further into allegations that two male TSA workers picked a woman for additional screening because of her breasts.
Eliana Sutherland recently flew from Orlando International Airport and told our sister station WKMG Local 6 she felt the two male TSA workers were staring at her breasts and chose her for additional screening because of their size.
"It was pretty obvious. One of the guys that was staring me up and down was the one who pulled me over," said Sutherland. "Not a comfortable feeling."
Experiences like Sutherland's have been reported across the country. Whether it's pat-downs or full-body scans, the changes are making some people question who gets chosen and why.
But it appears out of the tens of thousands going through security, only a small part of them may have to deal with this controversial checkpoint.
While some may try to clog the system by opting-out of the scans, Local 6 found they might not make an impact because most people prefer the scans. According to the latest survey done by USA Today/Gallup, it appears most people do not mind the body scans.
Colleen Moskaly went through a full body scan recently while her security agents performed a pat-down on her infant son. She said, "I'm not good with people touching me and touching my son. The only person that sees the screen is the security guy."
The TSA said people are chosen for additional screening at random and strictly for security reasons.
The Orlando International Airport officials suggest travelers arrive at least two hours before their flight.
Can’t say I would blame them.
Radiation damage to those with DNA repair deficiencies, all eyes, skin and reproductive necessities.
Everybody does mind.
I’ll need to inspect the evidence before I come to a conclusion.
Next time wear a burka.../s
Our society allows police to subject individuals to even abusive intrusions when such actions are deemed reasonable responses to actions. They stop a speeding car. They search persons and property with reasonable suspicion based on specific and demonstrable facts. They subdue and even kill a citizen in response to escalating levels of violence.
However, TSA bureaucrats are allowed intimate, primal domination of people when they have done nothing to elicit the behavior. The massive, random and warrantless program of body scanners and pat downs creates an environment for institutionalizing the worst demons of the human condition.
This country has before and should never again, suffer the consequences of allowing one group of people dominion over another, when submission was not provoked by the other party’s uncivil behavior. In The Life and Times of Fredrick Douglas, he believed that slavery perpetrated as much emotional and psychological damage on the owner as the slave.
they simply just want to see how much we will put up with
Not only that, they are planning on putting these in other places. Already have courthouses pegged. They also want them in subways/metro stations, train stations, passenger ship port entry/exit, and long haul bus terminals. PLus other kinds of government buildings.
there’s an article over on Drudge about all the stock, jon cary, who served in vietnam owns in the scanner companies. do you think the mainstream media will cover that?
John Cary served in Vietnam? Is he related to John Kerry, who, I have heard, also served in Vietnam???
“Can’t say I would blame them.”
Boys will be boys. If she can’t take the heat, maybe she shouldn’t stick them out like interstellar probes.
There are much, much easier targets than airplanes, buses or trains.
What's next, the TSA is going to be at every single street corner in America pawing "random" folks for "security" reasons?
Don't worry, they served their 10 years probation. They won't be a problem to anyone.
“There are much, much easier targets than airplanes, buses or trains. “
That’s been my thought. I joked yesterday that I was late to Thanksgiving because of the “enhanced patdowns” at the supermarket.
Now that the cockpit doors are kept locked during flight and were reinforced to prevent a hijacker from breaking in, a terrorist can’t kill more than a planeload of people, a few hundred people rather than thousands pus billions of dollars in property as in 9/11.
They could kill that many people virtually anywhere: shopping mall, movie theater, city park, sporting event, school, etc. But nobody would stand still for TSA style “security” precautions at all those locations, and they certainly wouldn’t be willing to pay for it.
to post 16.
completely disagree.
with one pound of explosive,
where can you kill 300+ people,
and do $100 million in property damage
“where can you kill 300+ people,
and do $100 million in property damage”
You could kill 300 people at any of the locations I mentioned — a shopping mall foodcourt at lunch easily has that many people, a supermarket in the middle of Thanksgiving rush has that many people, a movie theater seats that many people. Bringing down the roof of any of those places could be done with a pound of PETN, C4, etc. The 2002 Bali nightclub bombing killed 202 people and injured another 240.
As far as the $100M property damage, I assume you are refering to the airplane itself ? So that is what TSA is there for ? To safeguard the airline’s property ?
-- Frederick Douglass
you can’t blow up a supermarket
with one pound of explosive,
as you cab do with an airplane
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