Posted on 04/12/2017 8:41:15 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Little can surprise me in terms of the TSAs waste, incompetence and sheer indignity, but this story may mark a new low.
Its about Evelyn Harris, a 65-year-old retiree who was flying out of Washington, D.C., this past January when she committed the terrible terrorism crime known as wearing a pantyliner.
Harris went through the body scanner and thought she was free to proceed to her flight. A TSA agent thought otherwise.
I started to ask if I had done something wrong or if this was random, but before I could get a second word out, the TSA agent yelled at me, Harris told The Washington Post in an interview. She grabbed my throat hard, causing me to choke and cough. She yelled at me for coughing.
She then put her hands inside my bra and panties and groped my private parts with the front, not the back, of her gloved hand. Afterward, I worried that I may have been infected if she had groped someone else without changing gloves, Harris added. Her attitude was so threatening and hostile, that I was afraid to look at her face and name plate.
After her ordeal, Harris filed a complaint. As the Post details, her concerns didnt receive much sympathy from the TSA:
[T]he pat-down was legit, the investigator said. Intimate apparel has been a source of concern ever since Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab tried to bring down a plane on Christmas Day 2009 by detonating a bomb hidden in his underwear.
The investigator told Harris, she said, that his own wife carried a panty liner with her and put it on after security, as this is something that could trigger a search. Indeed, turns out all sorts of feminine hygiene products could be grounds for a search, according to the TSA.
Its that last bit which really gets me: This is a government agency which says that basic hygiene products are all the excuse it needs to permit agents to stick their hands inside your underwear, in public, without a warrant or, it seems, much in the way of a warning. Ladies, just plan your hygiene needs around the TSAs preferences if you dont want to be molested.
Tales of TSA misconduct are a dime a dozen, but this is the first I recall seeing the agency affirm this level of groping is standard procedure. Anyway, heres yet another reminder that the TSA still sucks and weve become way too complacent about it.
You are not alone..
Homosexuals and would-be molesters are probably lining up for those job opportunities!
Piss on the TSA. Literally. People shouldn’t meekly comply but make the gestapo’s job harder.
TSA is NOT law enforcement.
They do not have the right to attack or strike you. If the lady was struck in the throat as reported, the next action should have been calling for the police and pressing assault charges.
Save your revenge for later.
No point in challenging their authority on their field.
The police would probably drag the lady away.
What’s panty-liner? I guess I’ll just google it.
I’m guessing it’s something like ‘Depends’.
And you could get a fat lip and loose teeth...get used to it.
I hate the modern police state. I hate GW for creating the Nazi thugs at TSA. This is a power mad, abusive bunch that needed to be dismantled yesterday. Yet not a single time was candidate Trump ever asked a question about TSA. I would scream at my TV begging someone to ask him if he would dismantle TSA and let airports resume their own security.
The TSA makes me livid.
I think you’d have to say that after you recovered from the clubbing. TSA escalates very quickly.
I say publish on the Internet where abusive TSA agents live and their photos.
I’m not advocating violence against them, but you know, sometimes stuff just happens... if one of them gets killed, I might actually shed one tear, maybe even two.
No, who am I kidding. I didn’t even cry when ET died.
Exactly true. The lowlifes hired gor this work are largely incompetent.
Also, when lowlifes finally get a tiny taste of power, they become wildly dictatorial and authoritarian. They dont have the discipline to control their demanding impulses, so they just indulge in them.
They have become the closest things to the proverbial “jack-booted thugs” that we have in America.
Disband them yesterday. We were much better off with all these former welfare queens sitting home watching Oprah and slapping their kids around.
TSA = Touch some a$$
You don’t get on until we get off
As soon as the dude puts his hand on my groin I say, "THAT IS MY PENIS. YOU JUST PUT YOUR HAND ON MY PENIS. YOU ARE STILL PUTTING YOUR HAND ON MY PENIS".
I say it loudly so that everyone can hear me. I have touched hundreds of lives this way. I advise others to do it too, but note that if you make any move to stop him from fondling you penis you are interfering with his duties and can get arrested. Thus it is best to allow the fondling and make no move to stop it or pull away. One thing that makes them mad is to hold your hands high above your head. They will always say that I can put my hands down, but I keep them raised because it is a far better optic for the (hundreds of) people looking at me, as if I am being terrorized.
But I'm not done: After I'm done being fondled and have retrieved my belongings (and thus am free to go), I look for an older person or child behind me getting similar treatment. As I move away (and it is important to be moving away), I say "THAT IS ASSAULT. IT IS ILLEGAL TO DO THAT. THEY CAN BE ARRESTED FOR THAT".
The TSA people flip out every time, but as I am moving away from them I am not interfering. I risk getting arrested every time I fly, but it is my sacred duty in the name of freedom to continue this behavior.
PS: At SFO those TSA guys are fags. They go above and beyond the call of duty to fondle young men and male children. It disgusts me.
Sadly, I look around the terminal and see 95% sheeple.
Let me guess who the TSA goon was - Barack Obama’s 350 lb sister?
The airport cops always side with the TSA goons, no matter how abusive they are. Scum. Evil cretins.
I don’t fly because if I were faced with being groped or being hauled of to jail by refusing I would believe it was my fault for putting myself in a situation where those would be my choices.
I did fly after 911 but as TSA has tightened its grip upon vacationing Americans I am more and more reluctant, my last flight was 4 years ago in a large group I didn’t want to disappoint.
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