Unfriendly Skies: More Outrageous, Thuggish TSA Horror Stories (video)
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on November 19, 2010
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More TSA horror stories… if these news stories of rough sexual touching, intimidation, and invasion of privacy weren’t related to “security” by the Team Obama government in airports trying to catch murderous bad guys from Islamic countries, these sadistic goons would be arrested.
And yet, DHS, the Department of Justice, and Pres. Obama, are up in arms over a state law that mirrors existing federal law, and are suing Arizona because they don’t want Arizona police, while involved in assessing a crime or traffic violation, asking someone to show proof of citizenship as part of SB 1070 — which in Arizona, would merely be showing a state-issued driver’s license or any other approved ID’s that are often required at libraries, concert venues, liquor stores, banks, stores, airports, government buildings, et cetera. Because that could be a violation of an illegal alien’s rights.
Insanity.
These TSA news stories and videos are horrific. Be prepared when you read and watch them. And be doubly, even triply, prepared if you and your family will be flying this next week for the Thanksgiving holiday. Chances are, it won’t be a pretty experience — based on these stories, it appears that disabled people and children are being targeted more than any other group, including Muslims.
Summary of first video from YouTube contributor jackohoft:
A Chicago woman was groped by a TSA agent at Lambert Airport after her artificial knees set off the metal detectors. She was flying home to Chicago. The woman said she felt like she had been raped.
KMOV reported.
Chicago Woman With Artificial Knees Groped By TSA Agents at St. Louis Airport
From KMOV News, Woman says her Lambert security screening was sexual assault:
(KMOV) — More Americans are growing angrier, over what the Transportation Security Administration, admits are more intrusive security put downs at airports.
One woman is comparing her experience at Lambert Airport to a sexual assault.Business traveler, Penny Moroney, was flying home from St. Louis to Chicago. Like all other airline passengers, she had to go through security first. When the metal in her artificial knees set off the detectors, she had to undergo more screening. When Moroney asked if she could go through a body scanner, she was told none were available.
A pat down was the only alternative.
Moroney explains “Her gloved hands touched my breasts…went between them. Then she went into the top of my slacks, inserted her hands between my underwear and my skin… then put her hands up on outside of slacks, and patted my genitals.”
“I was shaking and crying when I left that room” Moroney says. “Under any other circumstance, if a person touched me like that without my permission, it would be considered criminal sexual assault.”
Moroney complained to the Transportation Security Administration, TSA, supervisor and then complained on the ACLU’s website.
H/t to Gateway Pundit.
Woman Roughly Searched at Michigan Airport by TSA Because She Was Wearing Skirt
From WZZM, Enhanced pat down leaves Grand Rapids airline passenger in tears:
GRAND RAPIDS (WZZM) – Before boarding a flight in Grand Rapids, a woman says the search at the security checkpoint was violent, unnecessary and extremely upsetting.
“When I got on the plane all I wanted to do was sob,” says traveler Ella Swift.
Swift was one of an increasing number of passengers Transportation Security Administration officers are thoroughly searching by hand. They call it an “enhanced pat-down.”
Swift says they told her she was singled out because she was wearing a skirt. She says the search earlier this month was very rough and left her in tears.
“The female officer ran her hand up the inside of my leg to my groin and she did it so hard and so rough she lifted me off my heels,” she says. “I think I yelped. I was in pain for about an hour afterwards. It just felt excessive and unnecessary.”
After reviewing the incident, a TSA spokesman says officers involved in the Grand Rapids search acted “appropriately and respectfully.”
The TSA says people in what they call “bulky clothing” may be singled out for the enhanced pat-down. Some passengers may also be selected for the search at random. The TSA says they have installed full body scanners and added the pat-downs to improve aviation security.
Bulky clothing. Like that worn by people during the winter months.
TSA in New Orleans Takes Play-Doh Away from Toddler
CNN: Thuggish TSA Treats 4-Year-Old Disabled Boy Like a Terrorist
Video encore… I embedded this next one earlier this week, but it warrants a second viewing.
From WBTV News, Flight attendant asked to remove prosthetic breast during pat-down:
CHARLOTTE, NC (WBTV) – A Charlotte-area flight attendant and cancer survivor contacted WBTV after she says she was forced to show her prosthetic breast during a pat-down.
Cathy Bossi lives in south Charlotte and has been a flight attendant for the past 32 years, working the past 28 for U.S. Airways.
In early August Bossie was walking through security when she says she was asked to go through the new full body-scanners at Concourse “D” at Charlotte Douglas International.
She reluctantly agreed. As a 3-year breast cancer survivor she says she didn’t want the added radiation through her body. But, Bossi says she did agree.
“The T.S.A. Agent told me to put my I.D. on my back,” she said. “When I got out of there she said because my I.D. was on my back, I had to go to a personal screening area.”
She says two female Charlotte T.S.A. agents took her to a private room and began what she calls an aggressive pat down. She says they stopped when they got around to feeling her right breast… the one where she’d had surgery.
“She put her full hand on my breast and said, ‘What is this?’. And I said, ‘It’s my prosthesis because I’ve had breast cancer.’ And she said, ‘Well, you’ll need to show me that’.”
Cathy was asked to show her prosthetic breast, removing it from her bra.
“I did not take the name of the person at the time because it was just so horrific of an experience, I couldn’t believe someone had done that to me. I’m a flight attendant. I was just trying to get to work.”
Since then, Cathy has contacted the Legislative Affairs Team, a group through the flight attendant union. She says she wants to see a crackdown on these personal pat downs.
“There are blowers and there are dogs out there that can sniff out bombs,” she says. “There’s no reason to have somebody’s hands touching your body parts.”
A T.S.A. representative says agents aren’t supposed to remove any prosthetics, but are allowed to ask to see and touch any passenger’s prosthetic.
T.S.A. says it will review this matter.
Woman Targeted by TSA for Cowboys Jersey | February 2010
Logan Airport TSA Agent Arrested – Accused Of Raping 14-Year-Old Girl
TSA Thugs Lose Case Against Woman with Applesauce – April 21, 2010
Woman’s Concern of Suspicious Passenger was Ignored by TSA | January 2010
TSA Whistleblowers at Tampa Airport Have Been Threatened with Treason Charges | March 2010
Additional reading:
The Hill: GOP lawmaker: Full-body scanners violate Fourth Amendment
Ann Coulter, Human Events: Napolitano: The Ball’s In My Court Now
Frugal Café Blog Zone: Rep. Poe Slams TSA for 4th Amendment Violations, Homeland Security Sec. Chertoff Profiting from Body Scanners, Ann Coulter on Insanity of Airport Searches of Non-Muslims (video) and Thanksgiving Travel Will Be Hell at Airports: More Lawsuits Against TSA for Humiliating Groping, Privacy Invasion, Includes Nuns & Disabled Passengers (video) and TSA’s Airport Checkpoints Violate 4th Amendment… But Team Obama & Statist Government Doesn’t Really Care (video) and Background Info on Crying 3-Year-Old Girl Who Wouldn’t Let TSA Pat Her Down, Plus the “Don’t Touch My Junk” Man & Napolitano Says “More to Come” for Muslim Women (video) and Thanksgiving Crisis: Backlash Growing Against TSA’s Invasive Pat-Downs & Body Scanners at Airports, “Opt-Out Day” Looming, Muslim Women Exempt? (video) and DHS on the Hot Seat: Invasive Groping at Airports by TSA Employees Escalating, Pilots Revolt Against Being Scanned Because of Radiation (video)
Motor City Times: When The Government Does It, Its Called Security
Diary of a Mad Conservative: I plan to Opt-Out for life
Legal Insurrection: TSA: Thousands Standing Around (and then radiating you)
The Camp of the Saints: Is Janet Incompetano A Little ‘Touched’?
The Lonely Conservative: What’s up with the feds hanging on to full body scans? and Sen. Claire McCaskill on TSA “Love Pats” and Video – Ron Paul on the TSA ‘Enough is Enough’ and TSA Gone Wild – Pats Down Screaming 3 Year Old
The Powers That Be: The TSA: Life Imitates Airplane II
Right Network: Citizen to TSAndroid: “If you touch my junk I’ll have you arrested.”
Cold Fury: Anatomy of a scan
Chuck DeVore, Big Government: TSA Needs to “Get a Grip”… of a Different Sort
Nice Deb: How The Obama Administration’s National Security Failures Led To “Grope and Change” and Don’t Touch My Junk Demotivator
Pundit & Pundette: Airline searches, as ineffective as they are invasive
Michelle Malkin: TSA: Touching sensitive areas
AFP: ‘Naked’ scanners at US airports may be dangerous: scientists
Gateway Pundit: Joe Biden: Grabbing Your Junk “Is Necessary” and US Pilot on Intrusive TSA Procedures: “They Want to See My Penis… And, If I Don’t Let Them See It, They Want to Touch It” (Video) and Soros & Chertoff Make a Killing On Controversial TSA Scanners and Former Top TSA Official: “Nobody Likes Having Their 4th Amendment Rights Violated… We’re Going to Have to Do It” (Video) and Awful… 3 Year-Old Girl Accosted By TSA Airport Screeners (Video)
The Jawa Report: CAIR Pushes To Exempt Muslims From Airport Body Scans AND Pat Downs
CNN: Growing backlash against TSA body scanners, pat-downs
Another Black Conservative: From groping to probing, TSA to investigate John Tyner (The Don’t Touch My Junk dude)
Washington Post: Revolt against TSA: Ban the body scanner?
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