Woman says her TSA screening was sexual assault: agent inserted her hands between my underwear...

[avaistheone1]

Business traveler, Penny Moroney, was flying home from St. Louis to Chicago. Like all other airline passengers, she had to go through security first. When the metal in her artificial knees set off the detectors, she had to undergo more screening. When Moroney asked if she could go through a body scanner, she was told none were available.

A pat down was the only alternative.

Moroney explains “Her gloved hands touched my breasts...went between them. Then she went into the top of my slacks, inserted her hands between my underwear and my skin... then put her hands up on outside of slacks, and patted my genitals.”

“I was shaking and crying when I left that room” Moroney says. “Under any other circumstance, if a person touched me like that without my permission, it would be considered criminal sexual assault.”


http://www.kmov.com/news/mobile/Woman-says-her-Lambert-security-screening-was-sexual-assault--109114934.html



Enough!
:puke:

[The Wielding Truth]

1. Who is the person who put this in place?They should be fired!

That is totally not necessary.

[awoke_in_2003]

30. Who put it in place...

or who is ultimately responsible?

[The Wielding Truth]

34. Some one had to okay the procedure.They should be fired.

[awoke_in_2003]

35. John Pistole...

heads the organization, and he was appointed by Barack Obama- someone who trumpeted the fact that he was a Constitutional professor- not sure anymore which constitution he taught

[howmad1]

36. How about a petition to have Michelle Obama and kiddies go through .....

.....a TSA pat down while Mr. President watches. Wonder how fast that procedure would end. Unless of course Obama's getting a piece of the action from Chertof.

[awoke_in_2003]

37. I am vehemently against the "pat downs"...

and would wish them on nobody. But I get what you are saying.

[thereismore]

2. WTF WTF this is insane! nt

[grasswire]

3. does TSA hire ex prison guards?

Just wondering if there is a crossover.

[MedicalAdmin]

14. Wait a second.

A prison guard pats down prisoners who have no expectation of privacy. And honestly, back when I worked in a prison we had guards who could spot contraband (weapons / drugs / whatever) pretty much based on how the clothes looked and how a prisoner was walking or body language. And I NEVER saw anyone frisked like that unless it was called for. I.E there was a darned good reason to suspect something.

It seems to me that prison frisking is not what we want the public going through unless we are assuming guilt, which, in thinking of it, is exactly what the TSA is doing.

Here it is folks, the cornerstone of all democracy, known as the 4th amendment and also enshrined in every other democratic constituion and document including the magna carta, shredded in order to make a quick buck.

[lovuian]

15. Yes these pat downs are getting as close as it gets to

criminals ...we are not criminals ...all we are trying to do is get on a plane

[Puregonzo1188]

4. This is getting unbelievably out of control.

[Loge23]

5. Here we go..

..this will not end well - unless this agency is disbanded (won't hold my breath on that happening).
This agency is counter to every ideal that Americans SHOULD hold dearly.
I read on CNN that 80% of American support this!! I dispute that number, but either way, these people do not deserve the freedoms that that have.
See how easy it is to slip off to fascism?

[seabeyond]

6. there is no way 8-% go for this. medias way helping govt to baaaah us as a people. nt

[Qutzupalotl]

7. Maybe the 80% haven't flown recently. n/t

[seabeyond]

8. i watched cnn report with three women. all were appalled and felt invaded. all said, well, if they

have to.

the two ont reconcile for me. it makes me wonder why they found no one to stand the ground. they could fine none that weent bothered on the one hand, but no one could be definite either. whatever the supposed poll was, it is not 80% comfortable with this.

[awoke_in_2003]

31. you live in Texas...

you should know a lot of people applaud this invasion

[seabeyond]

38. i dont know how they feel. after busco election in 2004, i found myself

slowly isolating myself. now i am on about the shallowest interaction with my fellow texans, lol. i have pretty much isolated myself to all. i am curious. i will start asking people. doesnt feel so much txan as those that so willingly accomodate authority. either political party. i think there are more people that do that than people that can't do that. as i have seen in a lifetime, anyway.

advantages and disadvantages in both personalities.

[awoke_in_2003]

40. I wish I could isolate myself...

this country is getting crazy.

[uppityperson]

9. She felt between top of undies and skin at belt line, then did the outside clothing pat down?

Am glad she got the crotch palpation outside her clothing.

[avaistheone1]

10. The woman said that TSA

"Then she went into the top of my slacks, inserted her hands between my underwear and my skin..."

The top of slacks is not limited to the beltline.

And I am not glad she got any kind of crotch palpitation. Completely unjustified.

[ipaint]

11. Chertoff's security corporation is thrilled.

"Moroney said she wishes there were full body scanners everywhere so that she could have avoided a pat down."

"...The government is currently adding more body scanners at airports across the country."

Mission Accomplished.



Michael Chertoff, Former Department of Homeland Security, is the head of the Chertoff Group, the lead cheerleader for what is being called the Full Body Scanner Lobby, reports the Washington Post and the Washington Examiner.

Ever since the Christmas Day Bomb Scare, Chertoff has been making the rounds championing the Full Body Scanners as a way to detect hidden explosive devices.

http://www.nowpublic.com/world/full-body-scanner-lobby-michael-chertoff-rapiscan-2552674.html

[Monique1]

12. This old lady says

touch me between my legs and you will regret it. You will know what hurts between your legs.

[KeepItReal]

13. Chertoff is laughing all the way to bank

(eom)

[Desertrose]

39. Absolutely. nt

[glinda]

16. What sorts of psychosis is all this going to cause to people?

[fasttense]

17. I'm never going to fly again until they do away with the molestation

and porn pictures. It's strictly ships, trains, busses and cars for me from now on. Slower but I get to keep my dignity.

I have a latex allergy, I wonder if they do pat downs with latex free gloves?

[spooked911]

18. where are the lawsuits on this?

TSA needs to have their asses sued!

[Bonobo]

19. She probably just didn't follow the "DU Travel Tips" suggestion posted earlier.

So it's really her fault.

:sarcasm:

[hlthe2b]

20. She was dressed too provocatively, doncha know?

Dripping Dripping :sarcasm: (if it is really needed)

[Rex]

21. And here we thought illegal wiretapping was bad...

It was sexual assault, but don't sue the lady doing her job - sue the govt for sexual harassment!

[Odin2005]

22. This BS will pretty much BAN people with rape-derived PTSD from flying!

:grr:

[bobbolink]

23. Only in terms of "self" banning. So that if someone has an emotional reaction, it IS their

"fault", because they "chose" to fly.

We all have "choices"...........

:nuke:

[Odin2005]

25. Hah, isn't that the same "logic" used by the defenders of Capitalist wage slavery?

:hi: :hug:

[bobbolink]

26. It is the dominant "logic" of this society. Trap people with no real options, then say "It is

your choice".

This is done to poor people ALL the time. As you go further up the ladder, it happens less frequently, but it is still always in the background.

The REAL choices are only for those with plenty of $$$.

Its not something that most of us want to look at.

:hug:

[awoke_in_2003]

32. minorities and the poor...

have been subjected to mistreatment by those in authority for years. Now it is starting to affect the middle class. None of them spoke up for the poor, now it has come to them.

[bobbolink]

41. " None of them spoke up for the poor, now it has come to them." And that includes "progressives",

which brings me back to what I initially said that irritated some.

When are we going to stand up for poverty and homelessness???

[A HERETIC I AM]

42. ....

[Evasporque]

24. TSA - Touching Sexually Administration nt

[PBS Poll-435]

27. I found a finger in my chili!

Damn You, Wendy's!

[awoke_in_2003]

28. Where are the Patrick Henrys?

The people who founded this country, from the Founding Fathers to the guys on the front line did not fight for our safety.

[awoke_in_2003]

29. where are the Patrick Henrys?

The people who founded this country, from the Founding Fathers to the guys on the front line did not fight for our safety.

[abelenkpe]

33. Just don't fly anywhere.

Nothing is worth going through that IMHO.