Oceanside Man Ejected from Airport After Telling TSA Agent: “You Touch My Junk & I’m Going to Have You Arrested”
Posted by Jim Hoft on Sunday, November 14, 2010, 10:43 AM
An Oceanside man, John Tyner, was ejected from the San Diego Airport after he refused to allow a TSA agent to “touch his junk.”
Tyner turned his cell phone on to record the assault by the TSA agents at the airport.
You can hear the discussion that proceeded his ejection.
The TSA agent describes the groin check at 3:30 into video.
Sign On San Diego reported:
John Tyner won’t be pheasant hunting in South Dakota with his father-in-law any time soon.
Tyner was simultaneously thrown out of San Diego International Airport on Saturday morning for refusing to submit to a security check and threatened with a civil suit and $10,000 fine if he left.
And he got the whole thing on his cell phone. Well, the audio at least.
The 31-year-old Oceanside software programmer was supposed to leave from Lindbergh Field on Saturday morning and until a TSA agent directed him toward one of the recently installed full-body scanners, Tyner seemed to be on his way.
Tyner balked.
He’d been reading about the scanners and didn’t like them for a number of reasons, ranging from health concerns to “a huge invasion of privacy.” He’d even checked the TSA website which indicated that San Diego did not have the machines, he said in a phone interview Saturday night.
“I was surprised to see them,” said Tyner.
He also did something that may seem odd to some, manipulative to others but fortuitous to plenty of others for whom Tyner is becoming something of a folk hero: Tyner turned on his cell phone’s video camera and placed it atop the luggage he sent through the x-ray machine.
He may not be the first traveler tossed from an airport for security reasons but he could well be the first to have the whole experience captured on his cell phone.
During the next half-hour, his cell phone recorded Tyner refusing to submit to a full body scan, opting for the traditional metal scanner and a basic “pat down” — and then refusing to submit to a “groin check” by a TSA security guard.
He even told the guard, “You touch my junk and I’m going to have you arrested.”
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bg commented:
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people have to grow up, that includes all those faux offended Muslims at airports..
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katy commented:
Everyone should record EVERYTHING at security. Protest everything invasive. Make a stink. Call every TV station and radio show about it. Call their reps in DC. A massive revolt will be the only way out of this fascist garbage.
gus commented:
“preceded his ejection”?????? Ejection or Erection?
Granny commented:
I’m sorry. The whole scan is a huge invasion of privacy and quite likely very dangerous to those traveling regularly. Our Constitution protects us from “unreasonable search” and as far as I’m concerned, without some valid reason other than a miscellaneous designation by some computer system, these body searches are completely illegal and unconstitutional.
chuck in st paul commented:
The whole scanner thing is a tempest in a tea cup. There’s no danger in it and there’s no privacy issue except made-up ones. The scan viewer is not in sight of the scanee. The Scan is not saved. You get a red light or a green light out at the scanner. That’s it.
As far as the crotch groping, I AM against that. In point of fact unless you’re carrying a brick of Symtex in your groin no pat down is going to detect much of anything useful. It’s just a typical government ploy to force you into the scanner. The problem is that at non-scanner airports if you trip the metal detector due to an aritificial joint they use the wand and then they STILL gope you. I don’t mean just touching the metal joint, that’s fair game as it trip the wand; I mean they do the private parts grope too! That ain’t right IMHO. But then what do you expect?
Illinois Patriot commented:
This kind of thing will destroy the airline industry and play right into the hands of our enemies. Many of us travel weekly by air on business which is a huge part of the airline profits. Businesses will discover new and better ways to keep their employees off of commercial airlines to perform their duties. I can envision businesses banding together to buy time on private jets to avoid this nonsense. Once again, the Obama administration takes direct aim at American business and the American air traveler while avoiding the hard work of identifying terrorists. Boggles the mind…..Come on 1/20/13!
chuck in st paul commented:
Granny, sorry but you’re wrong on all counts. All law officials are empowered to ID and frisk a citizen ‘for public safety’. Randomly stopping you on the street to do it is generally not okay, but any probable cause is. The Supreme Clowns decided that ages ago.
The public safety issue here is your desire to air travel. That is a voluntary act. The danger is clear and present, so all get “frisked”.
The body gropes are only indicated if you either refuse the scanner or you trip an alarm. See my other comment for a more thorough post on my views on the groping though.
Nance commented:
@8:35 on the video, a male TSA employee states, “Upon buying a ticket, you gave away a lot of your rights.”
Random searches are ridiculous. How many terrorists have been nabbed in random body searches? All this does is make the terrorist find other means of delivery. Treating ordinary people as common criminals is just another means of control. It would seem screening for suspicious behavior, profiling, a more rigorous immigration policy, and sound intelligence sharing would nab the real security threats – but that would require actual work.
Gee, the next thing you know, if you buy health insurance, you will have to give away a lot of your rights. Oh, wait…
greenfairie commented:
I live in SD and I’ve known for some time they have those body scanners, which are used only at times when it’s not busy because those scanners are pretty slow. I have not gone through them and will opt out.
Frankly, I’m angry and disgusted that we the people are the ones treated like criminals, without dignity or respect, because of our government’s refusal to PROFILE. As far as I’m concerned, the terrorists have already won.
Bonny Kate commented:
Good on you, John Tyner! The moment the majority of Americans lose the backbone to protest these assaults on our freedom, we’ll be equivalent to the useless eaters of the Soviet Union.
This is not about being groped or even irradiated. This is all about the sacrosanct right of personal privacy. If we have a 2nd Amendment to protect us from the government, I fail to see how this is any different. How many assaults are we supposed to accept?
Everyone here (save a few paid trolls) knows who should be frisked. Do the Israelis grope their passengers? No, they do not. Do they profile their passengers? They certainly do.
IOpian commented:
You do not have a ‘right’ to fly. It is a contract with a private entity. To do so you are bound by their terms to board their aircraft. If you do not agree to the terms then find other means of transportation. Stop being like progressives by pissing and moaning as if you are entitled to something.
apodoca commented:
Why can’t our government learn from the Israelis? When was the last time you heard a terrorist managed to get explosives aboard an Israeli jet? Instead of buying all of this equipment that may be hazardous to our health and invasive of our privacy, go the Israeli route. We also should profile—who cares if the muslims are upset? The weakness in profiling is the local converts with non-islamic names who are hot to show their allegiance to islam. It’s high time we stopped having a protected minority and a very offended majority.
Mark commented:
I will start taking TSA seriously when they start taking security seriously and profile terrorists wherever that leads, and whatever the RAAAAACIST!!! fallout is from terrorist fronts operating in the US and elsewhere. Right now the TSA’s procedures are an exercise in political correctness and are an annoying joke. The Israelis have excellent security, but then they do not have some buffoon like Janet Napolitano running it. Put this stupid cow through the scanner and have some highschool dropout grab her goodies (eeeeew!). Repeat for all congresscritters, senators, and the Whitehouse, Oops, don’t forget the judiciary.
gastorgrab commented:
If CAIR succeeds at getting a pass from all of this, from all Muslim airline passengers, EVERY American should show up at the airport with a bed-sheet over their heads!
Nance commented:
In case anyone missed this nugget of info:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38561251/ns/technology_and_science-security?GT1=43001
U.S. Marshal Service admits to savings thousands of body scan images from a security checkpoint at a Florida courthouse.
This was after TSA insisted that body scan images “cannot stored or recorded”.
These devises were “designed and deployed in a way that allows the images to be routinely stored and recorded,” stated EPIC (Electronic Privacy Information Center, Washington, DC) executive director Marc Rotenberg.
Yup, nothing to see here. Move along…
Granny commented:
November 14, 2010 at 11:22 am
chuck in st paul commented:
Granny, sorry but you’re wrong on all counts. All law officials are empowered to ID and frisk a citizen ‘for public safety’. Randomly stopping you on the street to do it is generally not okay, but any probable cause is. The Supreme Clowns decided that ages ago.
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Sorry Chuckles – I’m a chemist – a medicinal chemist to be precise. I’m well aware of the dangers of those scanning machines. As far as the scans not being kept, that was the party line, but Janet Reno admitted a while back that they were indeed building a database of those scans – and THAT is a privacy issue.
This particular search is pretty darned close to a strip search. As a matter of fact, I’m just uppity enough I would simply strip off if they tried to do that to me. Meanwhile, I simply don’t fly.
ebayer commented:
1)Supervisor,”Someone will be running their hand up your inner thigh till they reach the bottom of your torso”
*So what do they define as the bottom of your torso?
2)”If you’re not comfortable with that we can escort you out and you don’t have to fly today”
“This is not considered a sexual assault”
“This is considered an administrative search and we are authorized to do it.You have submitted yourself to it by coming through the terminal”
3)TSA worker(8:15)I think security outweighs a lot of things.By buying your ticket,you gave up a lot of your rights.
4)John(8:50)I think the gov’t took them away after 9/11
(I would say after Obama was elected)
First of all,where’s all of the screaming voices concerned about loss of civil liberties like there was when the “Patriot Act” was first activated?
Activists were so damn concerned about their damn emails being read and the phone calls of “so-called”Americans (of Middle eastern descent) being listened to.
How many women in burkas are being patted down?How many Middle Eastern men are being pulled out of line for extra screening?
And if it’s as the TSA worker says that you “gave up your rights by buying your ticket” and that “security outweighs a lot of things”…why aren’t we using profiling as an option?
Why is it that an American white male has to submit to this type of scrutiny to travel from one state to another…yet a Hispanic male in Arizona doesn’t have to prove he’s not here illegally if pulled over in a traffic stop?All he has to do is provide documentation,not submit to this type of interrogation and body check.
Andreas K. commented:
The scans can’t be recorded or stored?
Excuse me, but LOL! What kind of moron A) came up with that supid “argument” and B) believed it?
Of course those can be stored and whatever else. All you need is a storage device, make sure it’s plugged to the scanner and voila, there you go.
The scanners have software, software tends to get updated, thus they must have a port allowing outside connection. Or they already come with a storage device inside. Pretty standard.
The big issue I have with the scanners is… why do I have to go through them, but a mohammedan can scream “religious rights!” and get excempt from it? Even though his ilk would be the ones blowing up the plane.
This crap is pure harassment, nothing else.
The “ebil Joooooos” know how to keep their airports and planes secure without such scanners and without groping everyone. Strange!
Anthony Mator commented:
I wrote letters to my Florida senators today, asking them to defend the liberties of the American people against this insanity, and explaining that I have made a personal sacrifice by cancelling my holiday flight. I’ve posted the letter on my blog, so that as many people as possible can learn about this and get motivated to do something.
Anthony Mator commented:
To ebayer commenter:
I agree with you that the Patriot Act should be repealed. Bush may have had the right motives, but he opened Pandora’s Box.
No Man commented:
Just say no. Don’t fly.
Alana commented:
IOpian commented:
You do not have a ‘right’ to fly. It is a contract with a private entity. To do so you are bound by their terms to board their aircraft. If you do not agree to the terms then find other means of transportation. Stop being like progressives by pissing and moaning as if you are entitled to something.
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No, it’s not. It’s a government requirement. If airlines made these terms, then I could choose among airlines – and many if not most of them would not be running it this ay.
Frank Notsearch commented:
This is bulls**t. They are just conditioning everyone for
a Total Police State. What’s next? A false flag terrorist
attack at a Football Stadium, then scanners there?
This is just total invasion of privacy by a fascist government
and everyone should protest, in fact take off clothes
and spread wide, because that’s where this is headed.
Did you know Chertoff’s Company owns the Body Scanners?
exceller commented:
after the shoebomber we had to take off our shoes.
after the underwear bomber we now have to submit to either having them take naked pictures of ourselves or get your crotch felt up by security personnel.
I really don’t want to imagine what lies ahead after the first anal cavity bomber gets caught. lets just say that those blue gloves they wear will be jellied up when they say “just try and relax”.
profiling would save a lot of time and the harrassment of ordinary citizens.
Jackie Grant commented:
Two thoughts – all it would take is for not one person to fly just one day. The airlines would scream bloody murder – Congress would be flooded – this nonsense would change.
Second thought – why are the greater majority of Americans being punished for a very small minority – Muslims. Stop the stupid PC thinking – profile all Arab looking passengers. If they don’t like it – drive or stay home.
ert commented:
Well played, concise argument of his refusal.
This is some Progressives idea of purposely filtering policies from the top that are to challenging hetero-normative values. They know it will make good country boys uncomfortable to have their nuts grabbed.
What they (meaning those concerned with the civil liberties of a terrorists right to blow us up) WANT is for Conservatives to do their work for them and challenge flight security restrictions.
Frank Jesup commented:
Anyone that argues that this is OK because we don’t have a right to fly, would argue also we don’t have a right to go to a Football Game without the same level of scrutiny.
If a CIA agent sets off a bomb in a Mall, and our Fascist Govt. then enacts a law making it legal to do full cavity searches in all Malls before entering, I guess that would be OK also?
Welcome to the NEW POLICE STATE in the USA.
Betty commented:
1. Why do they insist on touching his…um…junk? I never fly, so I never knew what it was like. They really run their hand up your inner thigh all the way to your torso? IOW, they touch everything? I would have a problem with that, especially where my kids are concerned.
2. Why was his statement that he would have them arrested if they touched his junk considered to be bad? It’s not like he said he would beat them up or that they would have problems.
Rock commented:
Just another arrogant we know best, and you peasants have no say ploy by the elitist scum in DC.
Tina Broderick commented:
I love the background announcement
“Big Brother is Watching YOU. Welcome to 1984″
Grace commented:
We plan on traveling this summer with our teenage children. So what happens with them? If I submit them to the scanner, isn’t that a form of child porongraphy, and if I submit them to a full body “pat/grope” (whatever you care to call it), isn’t that a form of child molestation? Don’t tell me to take another form of transportation. To do that, we have to travel across Canada for a minimum of three-four days nonstop. Where does this all end, people? Perhaps the bedsheet idea isn’t so bad. What about MY religious and moral views and protecting MY children from such an intrusion? The type of radiation from the scanners HAS been shown to be harmful to children, women at risk for breast cancer, people with compromised immune systems due to cancer,etc. What about them?
PJ commented:
“Why can’t our government learn from the Israelis?” Because they profile travelers based on behavior–and guess which protected class exhibits suspicious behavior?
Yes, we give up some of our liberty to fly, but that doesn’t mean that a bunch of security guards is allowed to molest EVERYONE because the leaders are too chickens**t to even respond to threats that they know about!! Major Hasan–ignored. Abdul’s father calling the State Dept. — ignored. Richard Reid getting kicked out of Israeli airports — ignored.
When they start doing their job and paying attention to warnings, I will give up more of my freedom.
retire05 commented:
What a few of the posters are missing is this: yes, airlines have the right to negotiate the terms of the contract (the ticket you buy) but these unreasonable searches are not being conducted by the airlines. The are being conducted by TSA employees, i.e. the Federal Government. So unless you can show that the contract (the ticket you buy) is with the federal government, the federal government is violating our Constitutional rights of unwarranted search (and in some cases, seizure, if you know what I mean).
And being the statists that this administration is, now we are going to put pilots through the same thing. So a pilot for American Airlines, that has been trusted enough to fly us across the nation for the last 20 years, is now subject to suspecion. Doesn’t that make a lot of sense? How much longer before we have TSA body scanners at military bases because you know, those soldiers who are fighting and dying for us, just might smuggled something into a military base and kill over a dozen Americans.
Oh, wait, that already happened.
If the radicalism of Big Sis continues, I look for the airline industry to take a hit because Americans are just going to refuse to fly in planes that have no pilots.
S. Wolf commented:
We are just rats in a lab cage, being conditioned..
‘Every policeman is your friend. It’s an axiom taught to countless children in grade school. If you want to be safe you can always trust the police.
And until the advent of the TSA it’s a statement that probably was true.
Researching this post I happened to come across a detailed picture of a woman subjected to one of the TSA’s new naked body scanners. At the same time my nine year old daughter walked into the room. She exclaimed in surprise, that lady is naked! Yes Sophie, she is. Every person who enters an airport has to let a stranger see her naked. Even you.
She recoiled in horror. Me? Yes, you. If you don’t want them to see you naked you have to let a strange man touch your private areas.
Sophie freaked out. I don’t blame her! We teach our children to keep their bodies private. Yet to board an airplane they now have to surrender their innocence and dignity to a uniformed officer of the United States government.
Did you know that Alexander Hamilton predicted the TSA? He did.
Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time, give way to its dictates. The violent destruction of life and property incident to war, the continual effort and alarm attendant on a state of continual danger, will compel nations the most attached to liberty to resort for repose and security to institutions which have a tendency to destroy their civil and political rights. To be more safe,…
America is now a police state. The policeman is not your friend. The uniformed agents of our federal government are the enemies of freedom.’
http://rightwingnews.com/2010/11/conditioning-americans-to-accept-the-unacceptable/
Glockfixer commented:
To those who think the scanners are harmless, you are wrong.
These scanners use low wave length x-rays (called back scatter) to conduct their scans. This is a highly absorbable form of ionizing radiation. There arebiological and genetic damage that can result from those scans.
The other thing with these scanners that conerns me is that these people opporating this equipment have no training in radiation safety or proper exposure techniques.
Befor you go there, a x-ray tech can not take a x-ray without an order from a doctor who has determined that there is a medical purpose and need for the information that can best be obtained through the x-ray that poses a greater risk if the study is not done than the risk posed through the patient’s exposed to the radiation.
These scans are done in an arbitrary manner with no suspicion attached and needlessly exposes the public to harmful ionizing radiation.
ebayer commented:
@ #21:
You misunderstand.I think the Patriot Act is a good thing.
All it did was strengthen the laws we already had on the books.
This new screening process is BS.
Unless you pat down EVERYONE flying,this won’t prevent anything.
bg commented:
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okay, matters not what side one takes, people still need to grow up.. there seems to be an overwhelming shortage of fact based, honest, open aka: PUBLIC debate on just about every issue.. oh wait, Obama’s TRANSPARENT presidency was gong to fix all that, not to mention Pelosi’s most ETHICAL Congress evah before him,, yet he & they have obviously set US back at least 50 years on most every issue this country has ever faced, not to mention creating more along the way as well.. and it’s only been 4 years of Dem Congress, 2 of them with Obama at the helm.. *sigh*
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Bunni commented:
Great find, Jim. I hope this guy sues the crap out of them, and goes on all the MSM morning shows to expose how power mad these out of control, glorified ‘nazis” are. Our freedoms are being groped daily, and it has to STOP.
Contessa61 commented:
Come one. It’s time to start doing some terrorist profiling.
Stop this political correct crap.
Contessa61 commented:
I heard on the radio that some muslim country has a cool airport security system.
You go in a room and if you have a bomb on you, it will go off.
TheTruman commented:
This TSA nonsense is getting out of hand. I WANT MY FREEDOM.
Mari commented:
So will they be groping the chicks in burkas?
S. Wolf commented:
bg #38
re: we should grow up and have open debates.. we now live in a time opposite of the 50s.. back then defending Communism got you a fast track to oblivion and rightly so.. today defending freedom gets you the same thing and wrongly so.
Mari #43
Not me.. might depress the detonator.
grizzlybare commented:
Does anyone check Oprah’s “trunk”? I thought not.
Paul commented:
Wife refuses to now fly – I just canceled a US Air flight from Dayton Ohio to NC due to this crap Flight was for Thanksgivng – I would put a curse on the Obama “leadership” but too late on that – a zillion other people already beat me to it
ray commented:
Stop flying and don’t vote or support politicians who support these unnecessary naked scanners and sexual gropes. Funny how they often pick out the pretty women for this assault. Anyone who supports this is a statist.
usamopatriot commented:
The rag heads are winning. Look at how all this crap will slow us down. All because we don’t profile the worthless bastards. Rag heads and libtards….. what a combination of garbage…… I literally run out of expletives and derogatory terms to describe them.
Joanne commented:
We were going to Las Vegas in a month – six of us, for a vacation, but now because of the screening procedures, we aren’t going to travel in the U.S. Sorry Las Vegas, but we have no desire to be radiated or molested. Way to go Obama. It seems the best way to get into the U.S. is illegally through the Mexican/U.S. border – at least then no one is giving you a hard time there.
Joanne commented:
Why is Obama having people harrassed at airports with these new screening procedures? Is this some kind of trial run to see what people will stand for? Is he slowing leading people into a much greater intrusion of privacy everyone must accept in the name of greater security? There is far more to this than meets the eye.
Joanne commented:
“I really don’t want to imagine what lies ahead after the first anal cavity bomber gets caught. lets just say that those blue gloves they wear will be jellied up when they say “just try and relax”.” by Exceller
I was thinking the same thing. What then? I thought cavity searches were saved for criminals entering prison? It won’t be long before women are offered a pap smear and a cavity search and men can have a colonoscopy and a cavity search at the same time at the airport.
chemman commented:
Chuck in St Paul, you might want to check out that body scanner thing again. Two types are in use, Millimeter Wave and Ionizing Radiation. Ionizing Radiation is never a good thing since doses are cumulative in nature. The jury is still out on the mm wave since it is to new. Might be harmless and then again it might not.
Don Rodrigo commented:
The whole scanner thing is a tempest in a tea cup. There’s no danger in it and there’s no privacy issue except made-up ones. The scan viewer is not in sight of the scanee. The Scan is not saved. You get a red light or a green light out at the scanner. That’s it.
Sorry “chuck in st paul,” but that has turned out not to be the case on a number of occasions.
I would take the scanner because I’m not shy, and see no f*****ing reason in Hell to be groped. However, the true laws of averages and probability dictate against there being a need for mass scanning. A scanner should be used only for probable cause. I will allow myself to be scanned if I have to take an airplane, but will resent the s****t out of it, and for good reason. If I wanted to be a “Good German,” I would have been born in that country 80 years ago.
Rosemary Woodhouse commented:
Here’s a novel idea: profile those who caused our civil liberties to be robbed from We, the People in the first place. i.e.: Muslims. End of problem. End of story.
STOP POLITICAL CORRECTNESS. IT WILL BE THE CAUSE OF THE DEMISE OF OUR GREAT REPUBLIC!
S. Wolf commented:
Joanne #51
‘I thought cavity searches were saved for criminals entering prison’
Welcome to Prison America, land of the watched and home of the searched..
Daniel commented:
Damned if I will fly ever again.
I’ll spend my money elsewhere.
CT commented:
Can you say BULL CRAP because that’s what this molestation is. No one can doubt these aggressive gropings are designed to intimidate the public into submission. To what end, the security value is very questionable so was that really the goal? Maybe this is a test to evaluate the level submission the American people are willing to accept, what’s next???
John Tyner is the hero here, for not dropping his panties and bending over. I could not have maintained my composure with the TSA “public servants” and as a result will not be flying anywhere any time soon. Big Sis and this fool Obamination has got to go!
Antenor commented:
The real solution to this is for all airlines to install pigskin upholstery in all planes, and have sniffer dogs instead of scanners. Problem solved as the Muslims would then have to go back to riding camels.
charlotte commented:
What if you are wearing a tampon or an incontinence pad? Even men who have had prostate surgery wear them. Do they ask you to remove those articles and inspect them?
CT commented:
Spread’em, bend over and brace for the Big Sis grope. No who do you have to thank for this pleasure, an out of control government or our peaceful muslim brothers?
JaneLovesJesus commented:
sheesh! I can feel my bp rising just listening to this. This is so wrong! Invasive searches — that have not been proven effective — on law abiding American citizens suspected of ….nothing at all!
We HAVE to rise up against this. This is too much.
But must credit the terrorists or whoever thunk this up. We are being terrorized by the thousands everyday just by showing up at the airport.
Winefred commented:
John Tyner, 21st century Minuteman. Let us hope yours is the “nope” heard ’round the world. I got shunted into a scanner recently (may even have been in San Diego), without being given any notice of an alternative– the small sign indicating that I had the option of a pat-down was posted on the outside of the scanner wall, and I saw it by chance only when I was already standing in the designated next-in-line position on the threshold of the machine.
The whole experience made me uncomfortable, partly because I resented on principle this compulsory invasion of privacy (while my husband got to breeze through the metal detector), but mostly because it conjured up every movie scene I could remember with prisoners being de-loused and frisked and mug-shotted when in custody. I am an overweight gray-haired 58-year-old white grandmother whose forebears got treated with more dignity at Ellis Island in 1905.
Most of my travel these days (including the occasion of my first x-ray) is focussed on visiting family — in this particular case, my grandson and daughter-in-law who are on their own while my son is away on deployment with Marine Corps. I wish I had John Tyner’s gumption and could refuse all these overbearing intrusions, but I will probably submit to the pat-down in future — that’s as much trouble as I can afford to cause. (I presume it’s done woman-to-woman, which is strangely less creepy.)
But in these days of mass alternative media, it will probably only take a handful of brave souls taking a polite but principled stand against this nightmare tentacle of the state to bring the whole process to a halt. I’m too old to be a revolutionary, but I pray that others will take up Tyner’s torch and impose some sanity on the serious issue of airport security.
manateespirit commented:
Great comments here today. #11 Bonny Kate is correct. That’s what we need to do when it comes to airline security–the Israeli way.
LATiger commented:
My family and I have choosen to just not fly anymore. When we had to start taking our shoes off th get on a plane we knew it was time to stop. Our vacations take a little more time to plan but we now see more of the U.S.A. and do not have to deal with the TSA.
RickvonBerne commented:
binLaden (Osama, you remember him), is sitting in a cave in the Kush.
His henchman says, “Iman, you sent a believer with a bomb in his shoe and the Americans have everyone take their shoes off. You had another go with a bomb in his skivvies and they X-ray scan everyone. What’s next? A bomb-in-a-bra or a bomb that makes a woman look as if she is heavy with child?”
Osama, laughing his nutz off replies, “No, explosive suppositories.”
Snakes on a Plane commented:
I stopped flying in 2006 because of the TSA bullcrap, but now might reconsider.
What if I opted out, then dropped my chuds instead of letting the TSA feel me up?
Snakes on a Plane commented:
TSA = Touched Some A$$
Knepper3 commented:
I agree with #11 as well. If a certain group (ie: race, religion, ethnicity) are the culprits behind the problems then they should be profiled. Single every one out and grope and scan them is you feel the urge. This politically correct crap must stop.
And it should be the airlines that are footing the bill on this not the taxpayer. We have bailed out the airlines more than once, and their fees and rates still continue to climb. Just another government control issue.
True American commented:
Yes, profile the true threat: towel heads, those with funny sounding names like “Suleiman” or “Jimmy Jack,” or anyone from Milichigan or Okla-HO-ma. Whitey’s who voted for Palin ever should be banned from travel (they are clearly dangerous) and should be simply locked up. Oh wait, she is now what she onced loathed… a CELEBRITY! No skin/breast/testicular radiation or sexual assualt for her in the TSA lines, she can now afford private luxury jet travel.
Americans are stupid, this is what they deserve. If you have breasts, testicles, or skin, do not allow the deep skin radiation scan, and if you even partially undertand the constitution do not let a poorly paid and even more poorly educated government agent sexually assault you. Your agreement with the airline does not require this, grow a pair and fight. Your biggest fight has likely been against some XBox or Wii foe, or fighting to text one more message before class starts. Grow a pair and fight for your country and its peoples’ rights (no need for senseless murder or rape of innocent Iraqi or Afghani children in the process).
True American commented:
The wonderful Israeli profiling/biometric system is paid for by… American taxpayers! Can an economy based on a few rich Americans and their lobbying efforts fund a country with its own large war crime committing airforce, war crime committing navy, war crime committing foot warriors, 150+ nuclear warheads, with basic infrastructure of camps for rich American tourists and a few tech companies? No. Again, American tax dollars foot the bill. Isreal makes more money from the tax payers of America each year than have every generated for themselves since stealing land from native Christians and others.
Isreali airports appear safer because of money blind and sheep-like American taxpayers have given them. They could never afford the high-tech means Americans provide for them to continue to harrass, rape, and murder innocent people of non-Jewish heritage, who are given different passports (Apartheid lives in Israel, Carter was right).
Wake up. Who is making the most money off the TSA scanners? Follow the money. But some people still believe Reagan is a Rushmore deserving God and that GW has any idea what is going on.