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Comment by Peter Meis on June 6, 2011 at 12:38am

Why in Hell does anyone fly? Grow a pair, and then, you don't have to go through the airport where the perverts can do things to you. Just drive. No-one fly!! Break the airlines. When you have your pair, the perverts can't touch them.

Comment by Teresa Smith on June 3, 2011 at 8:45am

This is just to point out it does not matter who you are! YOU will follow the rules. This is  just to show you no longer have control over your life. It's not about safety it is about total control and to force you into compliance. This is to show you that you will accept what is to come next. I guess we will be forced to be chipped so we can buy our allotted food too. They want to control our calories, what we eat, where we live ect. There will be no freedom. Look at the New application for getting a passport which can never ever be completed the questions are incredible and one is are you circumcised. Hmmmm now one town is even forbidding it. Wow, do you realize how much trouble this country is in?

Comment by Richard Allan Jenni on June 3, 2011 at 8:32am

Comment by Richard Allan Jenni on June 3, 2011 at 8:32am

Comment by Richard Allan Jenni on June 3, 2011 at 8:27am

Rep. Sharon Cissna Returns To Alaska By Sea After Invasive TSA Patdown

BECKY BOHRER   02/21/11 10:01 PM  

JUNEAU, Alaska — An Alaska state lawmaker is making her way back to the state capital of Juneau after refusing what she called an invasive pat-down search at a Seattle airport.

Rep. Sharon Cissna, D-Anchorage, underwent a body scan as she was preparing to leave Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on Sunday. In a statement released late Monday, she said scan results displayed – as they had during a prior episode three months earlier – the scars from her breast cancer.

This caught the attention of the Transportation Safety Administration, Cissna said, but she refused to submit to the "invasive, probing hands of a stranger" this time.

"Facing the agent I began to remember what my husband and I'd decided after the previous intensive physical search. That I never had to submit to that horror again!" she said. "It would be difficult, we agreed, but I had the choice to say no, this twisted policy did not have to be the price of flying to Juneau."

Cissna's chief of staff, Michelle Scannell, said Cissna had had a mastectomy. The TSA, on its website, says security officers "will need to see and touch your prosthetic device, cast or support brace as part of the screening process."

Cissna had been in Seattle for unspecified medical treatment and was attempting to return to Juneau, where the Legislature is in the midst of a 90-day session. The city is only accessible by air or water.

Scannell said Cissna was scheduled to return to Alaska via ferry but did not immediately say how soon. Cissna did not address that in her statement.

TSA spokesman Kawika Riley, after being asked to respond to Cissna's comments, issued a general statement that did not mention Cissna or the Anchorage Democrat's claims. He said TSA is "sensitive to the concerns of passengers who were not satisfied with their screening experience and we invite those individuals to provide feedback to TSA."

Riley did not immediately return a phone message Monday.

Comment by Richard Allan Jenni on June 3, 2011 at 8:20am

TSA Molests Miss USA, Makes Her Cry... For Your Safety

from the feeling-safer? dept

Since the TSA "enhanced patdown" experiences started last fall, I've heard from a variety of people who came out of the experience feeling seriously violated, with more than a few asking about legal actions they could take after feeling sexually assaulted and molested by the experience. It really is a lot more common than you might think. Many of those I've spoken with have decided that they didn't want to go public with the story of their own experience and their own feelings, because it felt so intrusive and so personal, that having to "relive" it by fighting the TSA would be just horrible. This is part of what I find most nefarious about the TSA groping brigade: like many sexual assault victims, they're put in a position where after it's over, doing something about the assault only forces you to relive the experience.

Thankfully, some people are speaking out. The latest is former Miss USA, Susie Castillo, who has posted an emotional video right after being groped by the TSA and feeling totally violated, leading her to break down and start crying:

What's really bizarre is after she goes to complain to the TSA... they give her a "complaint card" to fill out as if that makes being sexually assaulted better.

In a blog post about the experience, Castillo notes that she's gone through the patdown before, but this one was much more invasive than previous ones:

Well, this pat down was completely different. It was MUCH MORE invasive than my first one at LAX, just a week before. To say that I felt invaded is an understatement. What bothered me most was when she ran the back of her hands down my behind, felt around my breasts, and even came in contact with my vagina! Honestly, I was in shock, especially since the woman at LAX never actually touched me there. The TSA employee at DFW touched private area 4 times, going up both legs from behind and from the front, each time touching me there. Was I at my gynecologist’s office? No! This was crazy!

I felt completely helpless and violated during the entire process (in fact, I still do), so I became extremely upset. If I wanted to get back to Los Angeles, I had no choice but to be violated, whether by radiation or a stranger. I just kept thinking, “What have I done to deserve this treatment as an upstanding, law-abiding American citizen?” Am I a threat to US security? I was Miss USA, for Pete’s sake!

Yes, for your safety, the TSA needs to sexually assault Miss USA.

 

Comment by Lorene on June 3, 2011 at 7:59am

Oh, of course, you cannot film the crime.  Are we living in a socialist state now?  Sure looks like it.  Who will stop the TSA criminals?