Posted on 02/20/2017 3:05:56 PM PST by WXRGina
I'll be sure and check my vehicle for an IED in the morning.
I can tell by her posts that she is quite ticked at you because it was you that was fingered and not her. But we all have burdens to bear.
Seriously, SMaj, is a TSA check really “rape” and “sexual assault?”
What would happen if some guy in a movie ticket line reached for his hip pocket wallet and she was standing a little close so the inside front of her leg was touched?
A 1 inch 5 shot group of 230 grain JHP?
Abolish TSA.
If he reaches down HER pants looking for HIS wallet, yeah.
I love to fly, but I don’t anymore since TSA. If I can’t drive there, I don’t need to go there. I have missed many adventures because of this -— but not the adventure of going to jail for backhanding some TSA groper who had their hands where they didn’t belong!!!
My "physical intrusion" also involved groping between my legs, both front and back, though it included unhooking the waistband of my slacks and opening the front zipper, after first patting the area down!
She then proceeded to put her hand down the back of my pants, presumably to check the manufacturer's label, then doing the same thing with my underpants!!!!
All this occurred while I stood on my one foot as the other one was broken - the reason for the aircast and crutches!
I was demanding to know what in the world gave her the opinion that I was carrying something in my underpants. She respinded that if I "couldn't go through the scanner, then they had to make certain I wasn't carrying anything there!"
My situation didn't didn't occur because a TSA agent found something that needed further "checking," (those full body scans weren't in use then, other than one or two sites) but rather because I was wearing an aircast and using crutches. The TSA agent informed me, as I sat in an airport wheelchair, that she would "need to do a "personal check," as I was unable to go through the scanner wearing a cast, while on crutches and asked whether I wished to to be done between the two XRay machines in public or I could opt for a "private" thorough examination.
I was privately seething being treated as a guilty terrorist but determinded to cooperate and speed up the process, opted to do a public examination.
This Darwin reject proceeded to "pat down" my ticket sleeve and the airline's own wheelchair, presuming they contained contraband!
While I was white-hot with anger at this physical man handling and assault, I knew if I let her know the level of my anger, I'd most likely be kicked off my flight and possibly even being arrested and chose to be quiet and continue on to the wedding of my friend's son.
If a total stranger patted down my crotch, front and back, unzipped my slacks and stuck her/his hand down my pants, you'd better believe I would contact the police and report a sexual assault, insisting on the arrest of the perp and charges brought.
Complete strangers, however, merely because they are government employees regardless of their sex, are free to molest everyone, regardless of age, sex, or condition merely because I need to purchase a seat on an airplane, is unconscionable.
Yer not bein' very neighborly.
Totally true, but the WOMAN inspector did not. It was on the outside.
Seriously, in a world as FUBAR as this, calling a very low dose x-ray type scan “rape”, makes one question the stability of the person writing the piece.
What would happen if she ran through a Highway Patrol radar speed check and got a ticket? Would she run home and get her small, convenient, purse-sized, handheld thermonuclear device?
She was in an Italian restaurant once when the the pie maker was tossing a pizza around in the air and a piece of pepperoni flew off and hit her in the bare arm.
She cut off his head with the pizza slicer.
The original poster was very lucky.
Lots of times the ‘check’ involves gloved hands against bare genitals.
The same gloves, I might add, that have ‘gloved’ countless other sets of bare genitals previously that shift.
I suppose you’re OK with this particular police behavior?:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xby01WRj-q4
Before they muster the courage to bulldoze bodies into pits, they must first dehumanize you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEhHeILa3HE
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They have a cadre on here demonizing and ridiculing Gina.
Thanks for your candor.
If you decide to start a petition asking Congress and President Trump to shut down this TSA nightmare, I’m sure you will get tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of signers.
I will.
Excellent post.
You’re not the first person to have this type of TSA behavior happen to and you certainly won’t be the last. You bought a ticket to fly and you knew (I hope) that you would be going through a security checkpoint. You made a deal with the devil, the devil this time wanted to play.
They got rid of the rapiscan machine. What they use now just shows a little diagram figure No one sees you anymore.
You really allowed someone at an airport in the Bahamas to touch your “young child’s” genitalia without protesting and you still think that was fine? Wow.
Or were you just exaggerating, and this woman’s experience really was much worse than yours? I’ve been patted down before, but never has any of my genitalia been touched, much less the entire area. Any rational person would see that as improper, especially if there was not a very good justification for it (and I’ve had areas show up in those scans that were simply where the fabric was wrinkled and a bit clumped, so no the scan alone doesn’t prove anything). I can tell you who sounds like the one more “out of her mind” to me (or at least less interested in basic human liberties and the right not to be sexually violated)...
Nice One, friend!
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