Posted on 11/20/2010 11:13:22 AM PST by re_tail20
THREE MINUTES at Logan Airport ruined my day. s I arrived at the airport Monday for a flight to Detroit. I went through the security drill shoes, belt, and coat off, laptop out, liquids in a baggie, pockets empty but instead of the customary path through the metal detector, a Transportation Security Administration employee shunted me off to a new machine. It was one I had heard of but never passed through a whole body imaging machine, the virtual strip search. I obediently positioned my feet where told, raised my hands as instructed and then, in a moment of sudden rebellion, objected.
You want to opt out? a guard asked.
I dont want to go through that, I said.
From several TSA employees came cries of Opt out! Male opt out! I was pulled over to the side and told I would be searched.
The TSA has just recently implemented what it euphemistically calls an enhanced patdown. The agent firmly ran his hands over my entire body, head to toe, front and back. He rubbed his hands over my buttocks and in between. He put his hands in my pants and ran them all around my waist. From behind, he ran his hands along my legs, all the way up my thigh as high as he could go and onto my genitals.
Then he moved in front of me and then did the same thing again. Remember the question once asked of candidate Bill Clinton: Boxers or briefs? My TSA examiner knows.
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Let us pray - :)
Thank you for further clarifications and substantiates of my reading of the U.S. Code on this matter. I am not a lawyer — nor do I play one on television — but I can read the code. It’s good to know that others are seeing my point.
And thanks, especially, for 49 U.S.C. section 40103! That, right there, would be yet another track to take. By piling on their violations of the US Code, we can substantiate our legal challenge to their illegal actions.
Exactly. Every individual TSA agent needs to be prosecuted for violating at least U.S. Code 18 2242, 2244 w/ clarifying definition 2246. At the same time the TSA itself including Pistole and Napolitano need to be prosecuted for not only promoting the violation of the above codes but for publicly violating 49 U.S.C. Section 40103.
Then a lawsuit needs to be deployed against every airport across the country that have deployed these scanners and molestation tactics. They are accomplices. They do not have to hire the TSA. So sue. And sue a LOT.
If enough of us to do this, endless lawsuits they can’t possibly pay to defend against all of them - Yes, we CAN win this! But we’re going to have to shell out some bucks and we’re going to have to be willing to fight. No more whining. Get into the trenches people!
If I gave my 15 year old daughter over to be photographed naked, or to have her breasts and genitals groped, I’m pretty sure I’d be doing jail time. As an RN, I’m required by law to report theses activities to the police and CPS, yet TSA is sanctioned by the government to engage in this behavior. Insanity. Meanwhile, the cargo goes unscreened.
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