One blogger's TSA encounter

[Tuesday_Morning]

Very interesting read...

On November 21, 2010, I was allowed to enter the U.S. through an airport security checkpoint without being x-rayed or touched by a TSA officer. This post explains how.


http://noblasters.com/post/1650102322/my-tsa-encounter


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[HipChick]

1. I'm glad he had 2.5 hrs to waste..

[enlightenment]

2. I don't think he considered it wasted time.

It was an interesting experiment, certainly.

[Tuesday_Morning]

5. I'm sure the TSA

counts on folks not having the time. They're motivated to catch their flight and not make a fuss.

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. You do not care about civil rights, do you?

[grahamhgreen]

3. Awesome! step 1 in regaining our rights

[MiniMe]

4. Got a "Limit Exceeded" message from the ink

[rollin74]

6. K & R

very interesting
good for him

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. This is what civil disobedience looks like

[Misskittycat]

9. K&R. Good for him. n/t

[Supply Side Jesus]

10. "considering" it assault, doesn't mean it's assault

nicely played though

[Angry Dragon]

11. i would think if you touch someone's breasts or genitals

it would be sexual assault

[Supply Side Jesus]

12. So if I walked by a woman and my arm brushed her breast accidently?

I'm a sex offender then?

Sexual assault requires sexual gratification.

just because a person says it's an assault, doesn't make it so. There are elements to full fill.

[Angry Dragon]

13. I believe you know prefectly well what I meant

[Abq_Sarah]

15. I'm pretty sure sexual assault requires intent of a sexual nature

If you willingly enter a security area of an airport knowing a physical search may be required, there is no assault.

[TorchTheWitch]

21. sexual assault has never had shit to do with sex

Sexual assaults and rapes are about POWER, NOT sex.

And on edit: If you CONSENT to be touched whether it's because of sexual interest or not it's the CONSENT that makes it not sexual assault, NOT whether or not the nature of the touching is sexual.

[Abq_Sarah]

27. From a legal standpoint

I don't believe that holds much water.

[sabrina 1]

17. You may decide when you are being assaulted or not, but you

don't get to decide what other people consider assault. If a stranger touches me I get to decide how I feel about it, and that stranger feels or doesn't is of no consequence. We don't have to read minds when someone touches us inappropriately, we simply have to call the police, something that people are now being advised to do if they are fondled by TSA agents, and then to call their lawyers.

I will not be flying until this danger passes. I don't go into bad neighborhoods knowingly, and for now, the TSA has turned airports into very bad neighborhoods where people are likely to be threatened for refusing to be assaulted by their agents. Best to stay away from them altogether until this agency has been reigned in and those who thought up these abuses, fired.

[arikara]

14. I'm missing something in this story

It sounds like he was getting off a flight, going through customs and going home. Why would he have to go through security?

[readmoreoften]

18. It's mandatory now.

You have to go through customs and security getting off the plane too if you're connecting to another flight within the states.

[kath]

19. I guess that's the rule now -- and it's fokkin' ridiculous. You have to submit to the Scope or

Grope in order to go home AFTER YOU'VE ALREADY FLOWN. WTF???

[KeepItReal]

22. That part makes no sense. I went to UK 3 weeks ago and had no extra screening on arrival to LAX

Just normal Customs line, get luggage, and I'm home.

[Matariki]

16. k/r

[TorchTheWitch]

20. if this is supposedly for airplane security why is it being done AFTER

the flight??? We're being told that the reason for this outrageous inspection of our bodies is to detect explosive material on our persons in order that they not be taken onto a plane. So, what the fuck is their reasoning in doing this explosive detection outrageous inspection once the person has ALREADY flown???

This just makes it more than obvious that these invasive searches have NOTHING to do with security on airplanes. NONE.

[KansDem]

26. It makes about as much sense as requiring pilots to go through scanners...

I mean, what are they worried about? That the pilots are rigged with a bomb to blow up the plane in flight? It doesn't occur to these fuckheads that the pilots could simply crash the plane if they wanted to?

This is bizarre, to say the least! :crazy:

[NoPasaran]

23. Sorry, I don't follow blind links to crazy people's blogs

Unrecced and hidden

[shireen]

24. too bad ...

you missed a great story.

:rofl:

[roody]

25. k and r