If in the middle of the official down the pants groping...
-- the gropee just "got all emotional" and proceeded to beat the slimy snot out of the TSA screener...
---Self-defense against assualt (state criminal statutes in play)...
---Unintended reflex-response to being SEXUALLY ASSAULTED
etc...
More than a couple of good defenses here...
etc...
just sayin'
What say you??
GMTA...
I just had an interesting, if disturbing, conversation with a co-worker. She was just fine going to the naked body scanners and if someone refuses they should be groped. She didn’t think the scans are pornographic (I do), because you can’t identify the person and they don’t keep the images (yeah, right). I then asked her how she would feel if her granddaughters were subjected to this (9 and 12). She thought that should be fine. I think it’s child pornography. If any other person had that on their computer, they would be hauled in. I guess children under 12 aren’t supposed to go through the scanners, but a 13 year old subjected to this is still child pornography.
Her answer was to just not fly. I don’t plan on flying anyway until this ends, but why, by participating in a legal commercial transaction, I have to submit to the possibility of a choice between either a naked pic of me or be sexually assaulted. How is that fair?
I understand security measures, but subject yourself to what would be a crime outside of the airport, is absolutely going too far. Maybe she just doesn’t understand the slippery slope...
I would say stop or i’ll kick the shit out of you before I did it!!!