Posted on 11/22/2010 9:50:02 AM PST by IbJensen
When a San Diego man opted out of security screening using the Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT) at Lindbergh Field Friday, he stripped down to his underwear in an attempt to avoid the pat-down procedures.
Samuel Wolanyk took the protest started Nov. 13 by Oceanside's John Tyner to a whole new level. While Tyner videotaped his refusal to be patted down, telling the agent "If you touch my junk, I'll have you arrested," Wolanyk decided to give TSA a look at his body down to his Calvin Klein's.
Through a statement released by his attorney Sunday night, Wolanyk said "TSA needs to see that I'm not carrying any weapons, explosives, or other prohibited substances, I refuse to have images of my naked body viewed by perfect strangers, and having been felt up for the first time by TSA the week prior (I travel frequently) I was not willing to be molested again."
Wolanyk's attorney said that TSA requested his client put his clothes on so he could be patted down properly but his client refused to put his clothes back on. He never refused a pat down, according to his attorney. Wolanyk was arrested for refusing to complete the security process and for recording the incident on his iPhone, according to his attorney.
San Diego has played a central role in the debate over the need for AIT machines in our nation's airports. From Tyner's videotape and U.S. Rep. Bob Filner's call for a Congressional hearing, to the parody song penned by Poway musician and Grammy-winner Steve Vaus. This Wednesday, one group is asking Americans to opt out of the AIT machines.
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In trying to find a positive, do tumors show up on the scan like an MRI? I need and MRI and certainly cannot afford one. This could be my new health plan. :)
In trying to find a positive, do tumors show up on the scan like an MRI? I need and MRI and certainly cannot afford one. This could be my new health plan. :)
This is proof that they aren’t interested in securing the plane, they are interested in controlling travelers.
If they were worried about bombs, they would have let him put his clothes back on and get on the plane.
I read the TSA blog [yes, they have a blog] and they say women in burkas and the like must be patted down.
I’m not sure I believe them.
Oh, and this strip down guy was arrested for filming his strip down on his iPhone!
CAIR is saying that the TSA targets women wearing hijabss for extra pat downs:
I’m not sure I believe them.
Wonder what would happen if everybody dressed up in a burka.
That might work, but another freeper made the point of feds itching to take over the airlines next and bankrupt ones are easy targets, so I don't know what is right.
I totally agree with you, it’s all about control. It ceased to be about security and protection along time ago.
“so I don’t know what is right.”
I value my personal self-esteem above a fascist dictatorship. I refuse to submit to humiliation of my body and spirit to keep an airline solvent. If the government wants to nationalize the airlines and everything else, they will probably find a way. The largely ignorant populace may have to chafe under communism a while to learn what it is and develop a distaste for it.
we've been conditioned...ever think about pullin a u-turn out of a 'sobriety checkpoint' line to bypass the wait ??? or just fer sh!tz & giggles ???
we all know how that would turn out...
same diff here, 'charges' for non-compliance to 4A violations...
get yer diagnosis and a trip to the 'processing center' all at once...
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