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The Transportation Security Administration is prosecuting John Tyner, a 31 year old man who was ejected from the San Diego International Airport on Saturday morning after refusing to undertake a full body scan and an “enhanced pat-down” body search (the actual footage starts at 2:55).
Essentially, the TSA will be pressing charges against him for refusing to be sexually assaulted by one of their agents.
Tyner recorded the half-hour long encounter on his cell phone and later posted it to his personal blog, along with an extensive account of the incident. That blog and a subsequent story on signonsandiego.com posted Saturday night and gone viral, attracting hundreds of thousands of readers, and thousands of comments.Michael J. Aguilar, chief of the TSA office in San Diego, called a press conference at the airport Monday afternoon to announce the probe. The investigation could lead to prosecution and “civil penalties” of up to $11,000, he said.
TSA agents told Tyner on Saturday that he could be fined up to $10,000.
“That’s the old fine,” said Aguilar. “It has been increased.”
Penalties for what?
“The requirement for all the passengers is that once they enter the screening area and submit themselves to the screening process, to complete the screening,” said Aguilar. “This passenger took exception.”
Tyner took exception to a TSA screener putting his hands on his genitals, and is now being threatened with exorbitant fees for refusing to be groped!
These new TSA regulation are essentially codifying sexual assault as a new security procedure, and are positioning TSA screeners as repeat offenders. Not to mention that they are willfully violating the Fourth Amendment rights of every passenger they grope.
The definition of “sexual assault:”
Conduct of a sexual or indecent nature toward another person that is accompanied by actual or threatened physical force or that induces fear, shame, or mental suffering.
The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
So now, we have TSA agents groping the breasts of mothers and the genitals of children, under the guise of stopping Islamic terrorists from smuggling weapons and explosives aboard American airliners. And some citizens are just too intimidated to do anything about it. For them, it’s OK for some random person to touch their child’s private parts, as long as they’re wearing a uniform.
- A female staffer for Alex Jones’ radio show described how she was given the ridiculously thorough pat-down by a male screener. When he moved on to do the same to the woman’s 20-month-old and eight-year-old daughters, she had to stop him and request a female TSA agent. Afterward, she had to explain to her daughter why she had been touched in such a manner.
- Amarillo, Texas: A woman sued the TSA after an agent pulled down her blouse, revealing her breasts, during a pat-down. TSA employees laughed and joked about the incident, even after the woman started crying.
- Minnesota: A woman who is a rape survivor got an enhanced pat-down from a male TSA agent after opting out of the scanner. She says her breasts were cupped and squeezed, but she started breaking down when he began moving his fingers over her face and hair.
Luckily, not everyone will just stand by as our loved ones are sexually violated. November 24 has been designated National Opt-Out Day.
Grassroots airline boycott effort We Won’t Fly is organizing mass x-ray scanner opt outs at airports around the nation for National Opt Out of the Airport Scanners Day, November 24 in order to highlight the health and privacy dangers of the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) backscatter x-ray airport scanners.If you have to fly on November 24, opt out of the porno-scanners for your own health and privacy. Say “I opt out!” Tell your friends, family and community so they know how to protect themselves, too. Be prepared for delays and intimate TSA groping. But at least your skin and eyes will be safe.
“But FMP, we have to be safe. I’d rather be groped than dead,” you might be saying.
The glib response is Benjamin Franklin’s 1755 reply to Pennsylvania’s governor: “They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security.”
The more thoughtful answer is that even if you willingly put aside your Constitutional right against unlawful searches, there’s still no assurance you’ll be safe. What is the cost vs. benefit? You’re trading your liberty and your dignity, but getting little to nothing in return. These backscatter x-ray machines don’t detect PETN, the kind of powdered explosives used in Farouk Abdul Mutallab’s failed “underwear bomber” attack. We’d be better off having bomb-sniffing dogs at the gate if we really want to guard against terrorists.
Half-measures like naked scanners and genital groping won’t stop jihadists who are determined to kill non-Muslims, especially when TSA agents aren’t allowed to profile likely suspects. It’s worth noting that Mutallab was escorted past security and allowed to board the plane in Amsterdam without a passport.
Besides, these “digital strip searches” can’t detect explosives that are hidden where the sun doesn’t shine.
Many experts and critics suspect that the full-body “naked scanners” recently deployed at U.S. airports do little to make us more secure, and a lot to make us angry, embarrassed and late. For instance, the scanners can’t see through skin, and so weapons or explosives can be hidden safely in body cavities.
With that in mind, guess what’s probably next for the heavy-handed TSA, under the guise of “keeping us safe”?
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UPDATE: Using the Transportation Security Administration’s actions as a precedent, can employers now legally grope their employees as long as they give the excuse that an “enhanced pat down” means greater safety in the workplace? Is sexual harassment now acceptable when the threat of terrorism is used as a foil to justify it?
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UPDATE: TSA screeners are literally putting their hands down passengers’ pants.
Forget John Tyner’s “don’t touch my junk” experience at the hands of TSA goons in San Diego recently, another victim of Big Sis was told by TSA officials that it was now policy to go even further when dealing with people wearing loose pants or shorts.Going through airport security this past weekend, radio host Owen JJ Stone, known as “OhDoctah,” related how he was told that the rules had been changed and was offered a private screening. When he asked what the procedure entailed, the TSA agent responded, “I have to go in your waistband, I have to put my hand down your pants,” after which he did precisely that.
Stone chose to conduct the search in public in the fear that the TSA worker would be even more aggressive in a private room.
No word yet on whether TSA screeners will offer to buy you dinner before sliding their hands down your pants.
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UPDATE: The TSA’s new theme song… (h/t: Angelia Phillips)
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UPDATE: Wow, this didn’t take long — the Hamas-linked organization CAIR is demanding security exemptions for Muslim women.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has issued a travel warning to Muslim airline passengers on U.S. aircraft in response to the Transportation Safety Administration’s “enhanced pat down” policy that went into effect in late October.
CAIR said Muslims who object to full-body scans for religious reasons should know their rights if they are required to undergo a pat-down, including asking for the procedure to be done in a private place. In addition, CAIR offered a “special recommendation” for Muslim women who wear a hijab, telling them they should tell the TSA officer that they may be searched only around the head and neck.
In the “special recommendations for Muslim women who wear hijab,” it states: “Before you are patted down, you should remind the TSA officer that they are only supposed to pat down the area in question, in this scenario, your head and neck. They SHOULD NOT subject you to a full-body or partial-body pat-down.”
…In February, the Figh Council of North America, a group of Islamic scholars, issued a fatwa, or religious ruling, that full-body scanners violate Islamic law.
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UPDATE: Thousands of protest letters are flooding the Capitol, White House, and Homeland Security
Americans are revolting against intrusive new airport screening procedures in record numbers – with more than 14,000 signing a petition launched by WND only three days ago and others flooding the Capitol, the White House and Homeland Security with letters of protest – thanks to a program emulating WND’s historic “pink slips” program that sent 9 million messages to Congress last year.
“People are not rolling over on this issue,” said Joseph Farah, editor and chief executive officer of WND, who launched both initiatives. “The magnitude and speed with which Americans have rejected the new invasive techniques of the Transportation Security Administration is reminiscent of the spontaneous birth of the tea party movement. The new activism in America is clearly not over with the election results earlier this month.”
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UPDATE: Despite the weak assurances of privacy from Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano, hundreds of the naked scans have already hit the internet.
At the heart of the controversy over “body scanners” is a promise: The images of our naked bodies will never be public. U.S. Marshals in a Florida Federal courthouse saved 35,000 images on their scanner. These are those images.
A Gizmodo investigation has revealed 100 of the photographs saved by the Gen 2 millimeter wave scanner from Brijot Imaging Systems, Inc., obtained by a FOIA request after it was recently revealed that U.S. Marshals operating the machine in the Orlando, Florida courthouse had improperly-perhaps illegally-saved images of the scans of public servants and private citizens.
We understand that it will be controversial to release these photographs. But identifying features have been eliminated. And fortunately for those who walked through the scanner in Florida last year, this mismanaged machine used the less embarrassing imaging technique.
Yet the leaking of these photographs demonstrates the security limitations of not just this particular machine, but millimeter wave and x-ray backscatter body scanners operated by federal employees in our courthouses and by TSA officers in airports across the country. That we can see these images today almost guarantees that others will be seeing similar images in the future. If you’re lucky, it might even be a picture of you or your family.
TSA: the creepy uncle of the DMV.
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12th gen. American, Constitutionalist, Harley-riding Texan, gun owner & NRA member, blogger, illustrator, Florida Gator alumnus. #TCOT
12th gen. American, Constitutionalist, Harley-riding Texan, gun owner & NRA member, blogger, illustrator, Florida Gator alumnus. #TCOT
