DEN TSA rigs WBI in order to grope male genitals
Apr 15, 2015, 6:12 am
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The firing was quite a while ago. How it just got out to the news is not known. If you are needing to be screened in private screening and you refuse to go, it brings up a whole new set of issues. One is that you would be interfering with the screening process by being uncooperative. Two you would not be allowed to continue to the gate, three you would be referred to local law enforcement.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/261881798/...exual-Assaults
It seems to me that Southwest Airlines could find the passenger involved in the incident on 2/9/15, the date that the TSA finally got around to investigating, if it really wanted to do so. Seems to me pressure needs to be brought to bear on the airline to find the passenger.
Apr 15, 2015, 6:27 am
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The firing was quite a while ago. How it just got out to the news is not known. If you are needing to be screened in private screening and you refuse to go, it brings up a whole new set of issues. One is that you would be interfering with the screening process by being uncooperative. Two you would not be allowed to continue to the gate, three you would be referred to local law enforcement.
Apr 15, 2015, 6:39 am
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Did you (or do you) conspire to use the nude body scanners to commit sexual assault against innocent people?
Is the number of people against whom screeners used the nude body scanners to commit sexual assault greater than or less than the number of explosives the nude body scanners have detected in the five years your pathetic excuse to an agency has been using the nude body scanners as the primary method of screening passengers?
Why should any traveler trust any TSA employee after this?
Apr 15, 2015, 7:33 am
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So how long did you work alongside fellow screeners who were using the nude body scanners as a pretext to commit sexual assault against innocent people?
Did you (or do you) conspire to use the nude body scanners to commit sexual assault against innocent people?
Is the number of people against whom screeners used the nude body scanners to commit sexual assault greater than or less than the number of explosives the nude body scanners have detected in the five years your pathetic excuse to an agency has been using the nude body scanners as the primary method of screening passengers?
Why should any traveler trust any TSA employee after this?
Did you (or do you) conspire to use the nude body scanners to commit sexual assault against innocent people?
Is the number of people against whom screeners used the nude body scanners to commit sexual assault greater than or less than the number of explosives the nude body scanners have detected in the five years your pathetic excuse to an agency has been using the nude body scanners as the primary method of screening passengers?
Why should any traveler trust any TSA employee after this?
That means that any traveler is much more likely to be assaulted by a TSA screener than be impacted by a terrorist act.
TSA has proven time and time again that TSA and its employees are not trustworthy. Proceed at your own risk.
Apr 15, 2015, 7:47 am
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Apr 15, 2015, 8:11 am
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It took at least 3 months between the time the TSA was notified this was happening and the time the two screeners were fired, then it took another month of alert the Denver PD, who should have been in on the investigation initially.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/261881798/...exual-Assaults
It seems to me that Southwest Airlines could find the passenger involved in the incident on 2/9/15, the date that the TSA finally got around to investigating, if it really wanted to do so. Seems to me pressure needs to be brought to bear on the airline to find the passenger.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/261881798/...exual-Assaults
It seems to me that Southwest Airlines could find the passenger involved in the incident on 2/9/15, the date that the TSA finally got around to investigating, if it really wanted to do so. Seems to me pressure needs to be brought to bear on the airline to find the passenger.
I can see why that might be something so challenging that TSA couldn't manage it.
Apr 15, 2015, 8:15 am
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And the airlines love having the US Government on their side subsidizing their "security" and providing them cover. So they won't complain in material ways either.
Apr 15, 2015, 8:31 am
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The U.S. Congress probably won't stop this, if you ask me what I think may happen. Too many Americans are so paranoid that they may believe strip searching passengers should be part of the TSA's ways.
And the airlines love having the US Government on their side subsidizing their "security" and providing them cover. So they won't complain in material ways either.
And the airlines love having the US Government on their side subsidizing their "security" and providing them cover. So they won't complain in material ways either.
I think I would amend that. Too many Americans, particularly non-flyers or very infrequent flyers, are so paranoid that they believe in strip searching SOME passengers - and those passengers fit very clear demographics. They do not expect white grannies and kids and middle-aged non-Muslim women and nuns to get physically handled.
Like Rand Paul, they assume it only happens to people who deserve it - for very obvious reasons (appearance, dress, language).
Apr 15, 2015, 8:36 am
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I doubt TSA is even on the agenda.
Apr 15, 2015, 9:18 am
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Found it:
I used to mess with the gropers as I left the screening area. Then I met Creepy Old Guy at IAD. He's been the only open palmed groper I have run across, and his massages were very thorough in the area of resistance. The really disturbing thing was after getting him two weeks in a row, he asked if I would be there the following week. He told me would keep an eye out for me when I said I would.
Apr 15, 2015, 9:45 am
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Too many Americans are so paranoid that they may believe strip searching passengers should be part of the TSA's ways.
And the airlines love having the US Government on their side subsidizing their "security" and providing them cover. So they won't complain in material ways either.
And the airlines love having the US Government on their side subsidizing their "security" and providing them cover. So they won't complain in material ways either.
The Toronto Blue Jays blamed Major League Baseball. MLB blamed the Department of Homeland Security.
At least they weren't jiggling anyone's junk on the way in but the season is still young.
Apr 15, 2015, 10:13 am
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Not just the airlines and not just in the U.S. Thousands of Canadians were forced to stand in the rain Monday night going to a baseball game in Toronto because of enhanced "security" measures.
The Toronto Blue Jays blamed Major League Baseball. MLB blamed the Department of Homeland Security.
At least they weren't jiggling anyone's junk on the way in but the season is still young.
Canada doesn't have a DHS?
Originally Posted by Badenoch
Too many Americans are so paranoid that they may believe strip searching passengers should be part of the TSA's ways.
And the airlines love having the US Government on their side subsidizing their "security" and providing them cover. So they won't complain in material ways either.
And the airlines love having the US Government on their side subsidizing their "security" and providing them cover. So they won't complain in material ways either.
The Toronto Blue Jays blamed Major League Baseball. MLB blamed the Department of Homeland Security.
At least they weren't jiggling anyone's junk on the way in but the season is still young.
Apr 15, 2015, 10:17 am
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Nope. We get along just fine with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS)
Apr 15, 2015, 10:45 am
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MLB made all teams, including the Blue Jays, install metal detectors and follow standard procedures for screening every single person entering the games this year. MLB claimed that this was implemented based on "recommendations" from DHS. No idea if this is true or if coercion was involved. My guess is that it was, considering how DHS has basically taken over security for private events such as the Super Bowl. I do wish to thank them though, as they'll now be saving me about a grand a year that I will no longer spend on MLB tickets.