I arrived at the aircraft and the Capt and I both agreed I was not fit to fly. I was red faced and sweating profusely (every swear word I ever new was being silently mouthed). For the first time, it occured to me that it’s humiliation, not embarrassment, that causes anger. We advised the agents, the company and the union. They were unable to locate a replacement at the time so susequently, the flight cancelled. I followed the letter of the law in every way and yet, I have risked my career, reputation and the well being of people around me who depend on my support.
Rest assured folks, Michael Roberts’s view of this “land grab” of the last of our precious rights is right on. I’ve watched the screening system get progressively worse for 5 years. I estimate I’ve already endured over 700 pat downs. It’s as if they plan some new hideous procedure, try it on us for awhile and if they get away with it, they go further. It HAS to stop here. We own our bodies, not the goverment. It occurs me me that a groping does not reveal a pound of explosive in someone’s rectum. So, if this is how TSA approaches its mission to prevent airplanes from blowing up, has anyone thought what’s next? If we go along with this I can see cavity checks around the next corner. They believe just using ” in the name of safety” makes it so and makes it right. IT DOES NOT!!!!!
Thanks, Howard Pinkham
US Airways First Officer
I’d say that is a hostile work environment.
I say we all buy tickets, force our way through the lines refusing the pat downs and that is that.
TSA takes STUPID to a whole new level
Dictionaries all over the World are weeping as they are no longer current
(Lame ... but I had to type something Family Friendly)
TT
There are a courageous few who won’t bow down in submission. This makes the government-paid nazis very mad.
It never ceases to amaze me that the person who has control of the airplane has to be searched for possible explosives. Its not like he can’t just fly into the ground or something. I heard they even took away a pilot’s fingernail clippers. What was he going to do, hold it to his throat and make himself crash the plane?
I would imagine it's also a form of "conditioning."
Just tell them, “If you grope me, I get to grope you.”
What’s the point of checking the pilot for a bomb or whatever? He can always fly the plane into a building anyway.
Remember TSA’s new motto: “You don’t get on, Until we get off.”
I guess I'd better not eat at Taco Bell before my next flight....
“Under 18 U.S. Code Section 2244, “ ‘sexual contact’ means the intentional touching, either directly or through the clothing, of the genitalia, anus, groin, breast, inner thigh or buttocks of any person with an intent to abuse, humiliate, harass, degrade.”
Sounds like someone in the administration wants Americans to suffer payback for Abu Ghraib.
It’s not a phobia, it’s an actual disgust of a serious perversion that is eating at the core of decent society like a maggot.
For the screeners to be able to detect explosives, that means that they must know what a normal groin area feels like. I wonder what it says on the job application:
“Have you felt (your sex) groin areas before? Do you know what a normal (your sex) groin area feels like?”
That kinda excludes the vast majority of people, and opens the job to a small segment of the population, say about 1%.
Or maybe there is on the job training with (same sex) anatomically correct crash dummies.
Madness.
There’s a simple solution to this.
Just make it an option for the man being searched to select a very attractive female to do the pat down!
It would help the economy also. Guys would be flying all over the place.
This is what happens when we let idiots control our government.
Simply go to local Law Enforcement and file a formal sexual assualt complaint everytime this happens. Once TSA agents are constantly under investigation/possible arrest and prosecution under local and state law; who’ll want to work for TSA?
I think I will just start laughing and when they ask, “What’s so funny?”, I’ll just say, “I’m just thinking of the laughs I’ll get when I tell the guys how easy it is to get TSA agents to play with my junk.”
TSA: Are you calling me a homosexual.
Passenger: No, but I’m not the one with my junk in his hands. By the way, am I supposed to leave a tip?
They cannot humiliate you if you humiliate them first.