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DA promises to prosecute overly touchy pat downs
ABC-KGO TV ^ | 11-17-10 | Melendez

Posted on 11/17/2010 10:54:13 AM PST by FS11

SAN MATEO COUNTY, Calif. (KGO) -- The San Mateo district attorney's office has a warning for all TSA personnel at SFO -- anyone inappropriately touching a passenger during a security pat down will be prosecuted.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government
KEYWORDS: agents; da; prosecute; tsa; tsapervs
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To: Paladin2
These TSA agents should be refusing to participate in this. If they ‘follow orders’ they ought to be terrified of prosecution and being registered sex offenders.

It is verboten to make an off color remark in a work place, but government employees are being paid to touch the naughty bits.

41 posted on 11/17/2010 11:44:53 AM PST by Never on my watch (Touch my junk and I call the cops!)
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To: Rebelbase
please call the attorneys of, blah blah blah

You know how all those law firms have a slogan...there's could be "We care about your junk."

42 posted on 11/17/2010 11:46:04 AM PST by dawn53
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To: ElkGroveDan

43 posted on 11/17/2010 11:50:43 AM PST by Tatze (I reject your reality and substitute my own!)
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To: Paladin2

44 posted on 11/17/2010 11:58:10 AM PST by Outlaw Woman (No Compromise!)
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To: Paladin2
Put them all on the National Sex Offender Registry.

Some TSA agents are already there...

TSA officer accused of child sx bragged on MySpace (Orlando Sentinel ^ | 2/1/10 | Walter Pacheco)

The Orlando International Airport TSA security officer arrested on charges of molesting a minor is a fan of bondage and sadomasochism, according to his MySpace page.

Charles Henry Bennett's MySpace profile identifies him as "Master Charles or Sir." The online page shows the 57-year-old airport security guard has "many years experience" as a bondage and sadomasochism master and is looking to meet people, especially "submissive females."

Officials with the Transportation Security Administration today said Bennett has been working security at the airport since 2002. A spokeswoman at the federal agency said officials are investigating the allegations.

Former Orlando TSA officer gets probation in sex-slave case (Orlando Sentinel ^ | 6/18/10 | Anthony Colarossi and Walter Pacheco)

A former Orlando TSA security officer arrested for allegedly molesting a minor pleaded no contest to one charge today and was sentenced to 10 years' sex-offender probation.

A victim told deputies Bennett asked her to be his sex slave and fondled her against her will. He pleaded no contest to the molestation charge, while prosecutors dropped the second count as part of the plea deal.

Bennett, 58, could have received a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison for the felony.

"Are you satisfied with your attorney?" Orange Circuit Judge Marc Lubet asked Bennett during the sentencing.

"Yes," Bennett replied.

"You certainly should be," Lubet said.


45 posted on 11/17/2010 12:09:19 PM PST by a fool in paradise (The establishment clause isn't just against my OWN government establishing state religion in America)
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To: FS11

Sheriff Joe Arpaio need to lead a few screeners away in handcuffs and into his tent jail.


46 posted on 11/17/2010 12:10:28 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: HEM

I deserve an honest answer before any TSA agent lays a finger on me, “Have you ever had a homosexual impulse?”

Don’t ask don’t tell has no place in the TSA screener’s handbook.


47 posted on 11/17/2010 12:16:24 PM PST by a fool in paradise (The establishment clause isn't just against my OWN government establishing state religion in America)
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To: FromLori

‘Companies hire former high ranking federal officials, and then magically, those companies get hugely profitable federal contracts.”

Many times hiring the former officials is the only way to get a contract.


48 posted on 11/17/2010 12:20:39 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Outlaw Woman

That man should be arrested! And his supervisor or whoever else pulled that kid aside for groping should be arrested for conspiracy and kidnapping.


49 posted on 11/17/2010 12:23:41 PM PST by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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To: FS11

Strange. I just figured that in SF, pat downs were considered Speed Dating events.


50 posted on 11/17/2010 12:24:11 PM PST by Gator113 ("Don't touch my junk......")
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To: P-Marlowe

Agreed.


51 posted on 11/17/2010 12:27:12 PM PST by Outlaw Woman (No Compromise!)
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To: Sans-Culotte
TSA personnel should be equipped with “erection detectors” to see if they get aroused during pat-downs.

I say take a page from the Ottoman Empire and make this a job that can only be done by eunuchs.

52 posted on 11/17/2010 12:33:04 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim (Pablo lives jubtabulously!)
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To: Tijeras_Slim
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53 posted on 11/17/2010 12:35:30 PM PST by null and void (We are now in day 666 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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To: null and void

Shep is reaming the TSA chief a new one!

Go Shep!


54 posted on 11/17/2010 12:51:52 PM PST by null and void (We are now in day 666 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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To: FS11

So, is it acceptable to make sure ANY and ALL “pat downs”
Are filmed?
Can you insist on using your phone to record the happenings?
TO have evidence of assault?


55 posted on 11/17/2010 12:55:58 PM PST by Joe Boucher ((FUBO) The more I see and know Obammy the more I think he's an a-hole.)
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To: Paladin2

http://standupamericaus.com/our-privilege-our-right-and-our-duty-civilian-grand-jury:33320


56 posted on 11/17/2010 1:27:01 PM PST by FS11
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To: Paine in the Neck
Wonder if Sheriff Arpaio has thought of getting in on sending TSA Gropers to his Tent City Jail in the desert.
57 posted on 11/17/2010 1:47:24 PM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
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To: Paine in the Neck

Their motto: You don’t get on, Until we get off.


58 posted on 11/17/2010 1:49:28 PM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
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To: lightman

“By the end of the decade, passengers will be forced to drink a laxative, then sit in open view on a glass toilet bowl until they crap.”

I hate to tell you, but this has already happened. Suspected drug smugglers are sometimes subjected to this tyranny by the U.S. Customs thugs at airports. What is especially outrageous is that most of these people were NOT drug smugglers and were, in fact, innocent. A black women sued Customs after being subjected to this outrage.....forced to take a laxative and observed defecating.... at O’hare Airport in Chicago. Another man was threatened to have this done to him by Customs in Los Angeles some years ago....when he pulled out his Las Vegas Metro police badge and ID, Customs backed off. The war on drugs has led to a war on the privacy, liberty, freedom and dignity of the American people.


59 posted on 11/17/2010 2:18:29 PM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation ("This is our moment, this is our movement, this is our morning in America!" Sarah Palin)
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To: FS11

Maybe I will fly commercial again but out of SFO from now on.

8 years ago I had a TSA midget pull my sweats open and just put his hands down my pants.

I said “Hey!” and jumped back.

He started babbling something incoherent and I said “I don’t have to take this flight then but you no right to do that, much less do it front of everyone!”.

Two San Jose PD were there and one guy said to the TSA “That’s a little to far” to the TSA midget.

He just spouted off something about his job and he can do it.

I said “Look dude, you are some power trip and I get, because you come a country where the government can do whatever they want. That ain’t gonna fly here, we have the right to object to our government”.

He said “I search you!”.

“Yeah, not if you do that again”. I said.

He then said “You want to fly, I search you”.

“Nope, I don’t think I will go today”.

One of the cops came off the wall and started towards the TSA midget and he said “Okay, okay. Go on”.

So I started walking to pick up my bags and he got a little excited saying something like “I say you fly. It okay!”.

Guess he saw the cop and didn’t want any part of him.

So I said “We are through here and I am free to fly?”.

“Go, Go!”

So I went on my merry way and I swear every time since then they have taken my matches from bars I visited, took extra searches on me, had me open my bags(which I put an end to by never having carry on), etc.

For some reason a couple of years later they quit singling me out.

The last time was on a trip from Seattle and I collect match books when I go places so I know where I went.

So get to the gate and the TSA guy, real nice guy from Oklahoma had me empty my pockets he said “You can’t take all those matches”.

“Dude. Do I look like a bomber to you? I’m from Oklahoma and if anything happens on that plane you can bet I will have that dog down before an Air Marshall gets close”.

He said he was from Kellyville and I told him brother graduated from high school there.

We had a laugh about soemthing or other, I can’t recall what it was. He tells me I can’t take more than 4 books of matches.

I tell him I went to a whole lot of places and I collect these things not to use but to remind where I went so I can go back.

So real nice guy he says “You okay with taking the covers and leaving the matches but you can keep four?”.

“Great idea!” I said as I started ripping the covers off all of them.

He says you can keep four and I tell him his job is hard enough, I’ll just take the covers from all these.

Thanks!

He said have a great day.

Personally, I thought that went about right and I walked away happy.


60 posted on 11/17/2010 2:27:04 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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