Posted on 11/17/2010 3:47:25 PM PST by george76
When you ask a friend to join you for a nice weekend cruise from Miami, you don't expect the friend to be hauled away by Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents into a private room where she says she was practically strip-searched. But that's what happened at Logan International Airport in Boston...
I looked over to the adjacent security line and saw to my horror my red-faced friend questioning TSA officers after she was chosen at random for, and refused to go through, a full body scanner.
My pal happens to be a Boston media personality and crime reporter, Michele McPhee. She is not a shy lady. When this tough blond makes up her mind she makes up her mind. There was no way she was going to be convinced to do a body scan if she didn't want to.
So instead, she opted for a pat down and was whisked away, barefoot, by two women - a TSA officer and her supervisor - to a private room, where McPhee says a very intrusive body search was conducted.
"They run their hands inside your leg and under your bra strap and patted the front of my breasts," she says. "If someone had done that to me at a nightclub I'd call the cops."
"People need to know why we need body scanners," she says. "The humiliation of walking across a crowded, dirty terminal in bare feet, escorted by two TSA agents, dragged into a room and essentially assaulted, I really did leave mad."
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I hope they get this stuff straightened out by Christmas, because I'll be flying then, and my wife is not going to like heving to bail me out of jail.
Nope, they get the same scrutiny as everyone else.
Is that what you think profiling is?
Nope, I think profiling involves talking to everyone, observing everyone for the cues that indicate hidden agendas and following up on those cues where appropriate.
It does take skill and training to spot the microexpressions and other cues.
I blame the government for not securing the borders. And the Department of Homeland Security is not making us more secure.
Look, you can be a sheeple and let the TSAers rub your breast and genitalia, whatever the case may be, but the 4th amendment guarantees that we have a RIGHT against unreasonable search and seizure.
There is NO PROOF WHATSOEVER that these measures work. Until the border is closed and we have measurable proof that security programs actually stop terrorists, then I say we say heck no to being irradiated or sexually molested.
Can’t remember if it was on this thread or not, but I have posted several times about the use of feminine hygiene products as weapons for terrorists. If a TSAer feels a feminine knapkin during a body search, what happens? Couldn’t an explosive be hidden inside of it? Or a tampon?
The only way to be TOTALLY SURE that someone does not have weapons/explosives on their person is to do a body cavity strip search on each and every individual. Otherwise, any “security theater” is just that. All for sure and useless.
All for SHOW and useless.
LOL! Like they don't do that already. ;-p
You have clarified it right there. The new searches are unreasonable, given that the methods used so far have worked. In other words, what is the valid reason for instituting additional "search and seizure"?
Clearly, clearly violation of the fourth amendment.
All caused by hypothesized FEAR.
PA speaker: Your attention please. We now have an open seat for United flight 1234 to Grand Rapids.
Don't bath for 3 or 4 days before the trip. Refuse to go through the scan, requiring a pat down.
Just make it REAL "enjoyable" for the groper.
Something tells me that not many Indian/Pakistani are singled out for the scan.
Next time I fly I will show up in a Speedo bathing suit and decline the scanner if asked. I wonder if TSA will do a full body pat down if I am esentially naked. The only area to pat down would be my butt and crotch. Grab away fools!!
I would say you are the bitching dummy in this situation. You are such a pussy you won’t get on a plane unless all of the women and children have been sexually assaulted? You are a pervert and a coward.
Then make sure your aim is true!
I'd recommend avoiding any comments.
ROTFLOL!!!!
LJ, you may be a prophet here!
We should adopt it based on EFFECTIVENESS.
I’m ashamed when I see someone say it’s too hard for us to do it.
I'm buying some TSA uniforms. I'm visiting airports and performing random gropes.
Sound like fun?
Best way to spend the weekend shopping for a new guy ;-)
And at the airport it’s legal!
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