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California prosecutors say they’ll charge TSA agents if pat-downs are inappropriate
McClatchy Newspapers ^ | 11/181/10 | Mike Rosenberg

Posted on 11/18/2010 11:07:37 AM PST by Nachum

As nearly 2 million holiday travellers pack Bay Area airports starting Friday, local prosecutors have a warning for overzealous security agents performing the new federal pat-down: touch passengers the wrong way, and we’ll throw you in jail.

Although authorities in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties said they have not received any criminal complaints since the pat-downs began this month, the searches can involve touching of the genital and breast areas, which critics say is akin to sexual assault.

The Transportation Security Administration says the pat-downs are rare and most commonly used when travellers opt not to travel through the full-body X-ray scanners, which reveal what is underneath passengers’ clothes and are used at all three Bay Area airports. Passengers who refuse both options would not be allowed to travel and the TSA could even fine them up to $11,000 if they delay other passengers.

(Excerpt) Read more at vancouversun.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: agents; california; prosecutors; tsa; tsapervs; tsascanners
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To: AngelesCrestHighway; SortaBichy; Allegra; wazoo1031

I'm one of the fortunate few who can fart on cue....this talent could come in handy.

21 posted on 11/18/2010 11:30:52 AM PST by ErnBatavia (It's not the Obama Administration....it's the "Obama Regime".)
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To: mbynack

22 posted on 11/18/2010 11:32:52 AM PST by cll (I am the warrant and the sanction)
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To: Nachum
Another brainy thought, suppose a person has to have a catheter with the catch bag on his leg. Does this mean that the contents of the bag might be explosive? Does this mean the bag is confiscated and the poor guy has to go down his leg? Come on, lets get rid of this crap. Fire all TSA, and bring charges against the communists that started this.

As was mentioned by someone else, does this mean that all breast implants must be surgically removed in case they are explosives or biological agents that could kill. Xray won't prove anything. There is no end to this crap because it is crap.

23 posted on 11/18/2010 11:33:31 AM PST by Logical me
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To: MsLady

I know!...This is ridiculous!....All this because Obowma won’t profile Muslims?....This is way beyond pissed off!!!


24 posted on 11/18/2010 11:37:52 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: ErnBatavia

Be careful!...You fart and that TSA agent might crack your family jewels!....


25 posted on 11/18/2010 11:40:39 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: ColdOne

“Rent a Burka”......excellent idea!


26 posted on 11/18/2010 11:41:41 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Um, while you’re down there......


27 posted on 11/18/2010 11:42:34 AM PST by Shimmer1 (Perseverance. In a confrontation between the river and the rock, the river always wins)
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To: Presbyterian Reporter

If I let my underage daughter go through the machine does it become child porn?


28 posted on 11/18/2010 11:43:54 AM PST by antiRepublicrat
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To: Nachum
Check the sign:


29 posted on 11/18/2010 11:47:48 AM PST by Albion Wilde (Government does nothing as economically as the private sector. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

You have found the only white TSA groper in the entire world.


30 posted on 11/18/2010 11:48:22 AM PST by HIDEK6
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

I just checked and a Burka can be purchased on line for around $75.00 bucks. My question is, would any of you female posters put one on to get through screening??


31 posted on 11/18/2010 11:49:06 AM PST by Gadsden1st
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To: cll

I think I’ll go to http://www.despair.com/tsa.html and get a TSA t-shirt that says:

“And they didn’t even give me the courtesy of a reach-around”


32 posted on 11/18/2010 11:49:06 AM PST by antiRepublicrat
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To: Lurker
Well there is the old steak dinner and two bottles of wine approach.

Buying about six lap dances would work, too.

33 posted on 11/18/2010 11:50:00 AM PST by HIDEK6
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To: Logical me
suppose a person has to have a catheter with the catch bag on his leg. Does this mean that the contents of the bag might be explosive? Does this mean the bag is confiscated and the poor guy has to go down his leg? ...does this mean that all breast implants must be surgically removed in case they are explosives

How about colostomy bags, TSA? It's easy to make explosives from fertilizer...

34 posted on 11/18/2010 11:50:32 AM PST by Albion Wilde (Government does nothing as economically as the private sector. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: antiRepublicrat
If I let my underage daughter go through the machine does it become child porn?

Even scarier, what if your underage daughter is wearing a sanitary napkin? Will the TSA agent make her take if off and subject her to even more humiliation?

35 posted on 11/18/2010 11:51:26 AM PST by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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To: ErnBatavia
I'm one of the fortunate (??) few who can fart on cue....this talent could come in handy.

lol and TMI. :-)
36 posted on 11/18/2010 11:59:11 AM PST by Girlene
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To: ErnBatavia

Looks like the TSA guy is holding his breath, maybe the guy did let one pass........

37 posted on 11/18/2010 12:02:16 PM PST by sniper63 (Plug the hole in the barder daddy........)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Everyone who pushed this through should also have to go through it too. But, they don’t. That’s why they don’t give a fig. I’m beyond pissed off too!!! What’s the next step, body cavity searches??? Interment camps? And how is this going to affect people mentally over time? Or even one time?


38 posted on 11/18/2010 12:07:49 PM PST by MsLady (If you died tonight, where would you go? Salvation, don't leave earth without it!)
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To: Nachum

Toll-Free number to the Congressional Switchboard

(866) 338-1015


39 posted on 11/18/2010 12:09:31 PM PST by GailA (obamacare paid for by cuts & taxes on most vulnerable Veterans, retired Military, disabled & Seniors)
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To: sniper63

He’s probably wondering were the hell he put his resume....


40 posted on 11/18/2010 12:10:01 PM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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