Originally Posted by
lovely15
Fair enough, but I'll point out I mentioned my status only to make everyone aware that I am 100% successful at expedited screening through PreCheck.
But now my question becomes, why did everything you just said NOT happen to me? Why was I not allowed to be escorted back to the non-secure side? Why did they insist I must complete the screening on my person?
I wish I had an answer for you, but I was not there so I cant speak for what the concerns may have been. BTW, how do you like the PreCheck system? We are slated to get it soon at my airport and I have not heard from a regular human what they think of it.
Originally Posted by
lovely15
Further, since I was told I set the scanner off because I was sweating, what on earth was the TSO patting me down for? They all but told me it was a false positive, so I can only assume I was sexually assaulted as retaliation for creating a scene. Don't even lie and say that doesn't happen.
Sweating? Really? I don’t work with the scanners myself, but nothing I have read on them says anything about sweat causing an anomaly. Was this an ATR system or one of the older systems where there is someone in a booth somewhere reviewing the image?
As for retaliation, as I have said before (and I believe you have not read), when you hear hoof-beats think horses, not zebras. Retaliatory screenings honestly do happen, but nowhere near as often as most in this venue would claim. If there was an anomaly then there was an anomaly, and it needed to be cleared, hence the pat-down. Only after the pat-down can cause be determined, until then it’s just an anomaly. Not a false-positive, just an anomaly, which is what the systems are designed to detect.
Originally Posted by
lovely15
ETA: By the way, consenting to sex with my husband is different than consenting under duress to a woman rubbing her hands on my labia and mons pubis. Oh...I'm sorry, did those terms make you uncomfortable?
You are correct, but screening is not sex, nor assault, and when you ask for the screening by presenting yourself for it willingly then it is not unlawful.