Posted on 09/06/2011 9:52:38 PM PDT by redreno
Attacking the TSA for its privacy-invasive screening procedures has become a favorite activity for many journalists, especially Matt Drudge. TSA horror stories are often featured prominently on The Drudge Report and he has taken to calling Janet Napolitano, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (of which the TSA is a part) “Big Sis.”
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Might be an interesting suit, although the blogger would be dragged over the coals.
For any lawyers: How might the plaintiff show damages?
Until people stand up as one and say enough is enough there will be no changes. A two week boycott of all air travel will quick bring this to a head and force some real change.
Never mind: The TSA agent was named. That not good.
The problem with that is business travel will never join a boycott. When my boss says fly, we fly. I would much rather drive to Nashville or Chicago (each doable in under six hours for me) but they want us back the next afternoon or sometimes the same day (an incredibly exhausting pain.)
And they do this to little girls too I bet!
That is correct. Truth is an absolute defense to a claim of defamation.
Yup, I can hear the argument now. It is not rape, since it is under color of law, like a strip search at a jailhouse is not rape. Therefore, to call it rape is defamation. It will likely be thrown out, although since it is an accusation of a specific crime with specific elements, it might get to a jury. No matter what, the poor victim will continue to suffer at the hands of these bastards. (Oops, will I be sued for calling them bastards when they may have actually had a father).
Rodney Dangerfield
“(Oops, will I be sued for calling them bastards when they may have actually had a father).”
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For the record....a “baby’s daddy” does not constitute as a “Father”.
Vaginal penetration without consent is rape. Especially if the blogger cried out against what was being done to her. That would have to legally constitute withdrawal of consent if they tried to claim that she had somehow consented by letting the search begin in the first place. Anything that TSA agent did after that point (IOW, the other 3 times of vaginal penetration) would technically and in fact be rape - carnal knowledge without consent, and with specific and public protest of the act.
In order for it to be “under color of law”, I would think that TSA agent would have to produce official guidelines or instructions regarding vaginal searches and what constitutes permission for a vaginal search.
This whole story is sick, sick, sick.
Whats wrong with customs doing their job? They intelligent enough to ask questions, afraid of profiling? Or just plain stupid?
I just got back from a Canadian fishing trip. Canadian customs told me on the way up there I was due for a colonoscopy.
Here in Thailand, Defamation suits are a means for shutting up the political opposition. Nice to know the USA is catching up. ;-)
Name them all.
The “it’s uncomfortable, but necessary for the good of the state” defense went out with the Nuremberg Trials.
Hannity and others are wrong to buy this line and repeat it to us as I have heard them say.
A cavity search to get on an airplane?
Totally out of control.
Hey, if it’s good enough for the peons, it’s good enough for Barry and the Wookie.
It should be mandatory for all the congress critters that let the TSA get away with it. Their wives and daughters and sons should have to go through it also...no private planes for them.....until after the search...and especially the female congress critters that allow this to continue...In a line in public just like the rest of us serfs...
It's a horrible story, but is it true? Consider the source.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Alkon
In her daily life, and in her blog, Alkon has a number of campaigns. In her article, "Hello, Psycho" (entitled after the opening salutation of one of her respondents), she describes her anti-SUV campaign, which consists of placing small cards on the windshields of SUVs. The cards (which are her own composition) refer to the driver as a "Road-Hogging, Gas-Guzzling, Air-Fouling Vulgarian" and pointedly suggest that the driver is compensating for "an extremely small penis" by driving "such a monstrosity."
Maybe she is telling the exact truth, but her accusations would have much more credibility if she were not a professional complainer.
Further, she's obviously a liberal. And, guess what, liberals are known to lie.
It does make it easier to dismiss her as a drama queen, not that this particularly helps the TSA agent’s proposed lawsuit, because the agent could always say “consider the source” about this blogger.
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