Man Films Airport TSA Encounter, Says It Borders on Sexual Assault

by Nisha Chittal | 3:16 pm, November 14th, 2010

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In one of the more unusual cases of airport security gone overboard, a man trying to board a flight at San Diego International Airport refused a patdown when he felt it was bordering on sexual assault. From there, he was told he could not board his flight, was interrogated by several different TSA agents, escorted out of the airport, and then in a turn of events, told that if he left the airport without completing the security screening he could face a civil suit and find of up to $10,000. But because this is 2010, he filmed the entire encounter using his mobile phone, posted the videos to YouTube, and blogged about the entire ordeal.

He then wrote a lengthy blog post detailing the entire account on his personal blog, including three short videos that he captured throughout the affair:

We both stood there for no more than probably two minutes before a female TSA agent (apparently, the supervisor) arrived. She described to me that because I had opted out of the backscatter screening, I would now be patted down, and that involved running hands up the inside of my legs until they felt my groin. I stated that I would not allow myself to be subject to a molestation as a condition of getting on my flight. The supervisor informed me that it was a standard administrative security check and that they were authorized to do it. I repeated that I felt what they were doing was a sexual assault, and that if they were anyone but the government, the act would be illegal. I believe that I was then informed that if I did not submit to the inspection, I would not be getting on my flight. I again stated that I thought the search was illegal. I told her that I would be willing to submit to a walk through the metal detector as over 80% of the rest of the people were doing, but I would not be groped. The supervisor, then offered to go get her supervisor.

And that’s just a bit of it — the entire story goes on and involves the man having to speak to several more TSA agents, officers, and other officials before finally being allowed to leave — but not being allowed to board his flight. Watch the videos here:

Airport, airport security screenings, San Diego, TSA

Harry Flashman

Benjamin Frankiln said it best:

“He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.”

Here’s a note to the feds – we’re concerned about our security, but we’re not scared, not like you think we are, not to the point that we want you to grope us in the name of security.

Food for thought: I’m wondering if this whole thing is more because the fed is scared – scared for their jobs and how they’ll look if something happens – than for our sake.
Just4thefax

Fact: This asshole knows why people get screened. If he didn’t want to take part in it he should charter his own plane. Put blame where it belongs on the Muslims!
ChuckfromTacoma

The man has the right to refuse to be subjected to unreasonable search. The worst thing he did was exercise that right. He did not make any unreasonable demands including accepting not being allowed to board the aircraft. Case should be closed.
I would certainly like to know if the government does pursue any additional action against this man.
Of course, being the pain in the ass that I can be, I would have demanded to be searched by some young female. At least I could find comfort in knowing that the young lady would be repulsed by having to touch the scrotum of a 60 year old, 300 pound grandfather.
BatBoy

Like the “retire cop” said…Let him run thru the damn machine.

Petty bureaucrats who get a little authority usually run amok…as is the case of TSA now days.

I am planning a trip across county next year and I refuse to go thru the airport. I will be driving…thank you very much.
Labaliente Foosallent

The fact is the TSA are using the threat and reality of RAPE to force people to choose to be irradiated and exposed to cancer causing rays so the TSA rapists can enjoy lots of porno they can masturbate to – or strangers whose gonads they can fondle.

FACT: they dig doing this to women while their husbands are watching. The helpless rage of the husband makes them feel powerful, a real drug for the TSA people, most all of which are subhuman grotesques unemployable in any other context.

FACT: it is rape.

The choice the TSA subhumans hold out is the same as the choice between being shot or sodomized at gun point.

All TSA agents must be indicted for RAPE or for aiding and abetting a rapist.

You know what these guys at TSA do when they’re done sexually assaulting women they feel up?

They keep the gloves they use and trade them for each other to sniff, catching scent from the women whose crotches they fondle. Yeah, they ARE that sick and twisted.

They stand around during breaks, sniffing them and laughing. Don’t ask how I know but it is NOT heresay. This is FACT.

Congressmen have to know this WILL happen to their wives! Their daughters! Their granddaughters. The TSA monsters are psychopathic sexual sadists.

On the day of the protest against TOTAL SEXUAL ASSAULT on Nov 24, go through the pat down with a full bladder and bowels and let them both go the very second that the TSA maggot touches your gonads. By the 20th time this happens, they’ll get the message.

If you can’t defecate and urinate on command, you can at least shriek, ‘RAPE! I AM BEING RAPED BY MY GOVERNMENT! RAPE!’ over and over again until you psss out when the TSA rapist touches you.
kabmn00

who is this guy?

someone please find out.

he is an a-hole.
kabmn00

some asshole say “rape”, don’t fly then then.
Some_Dude

Harry Flashman said:
Benjamin Frankiln said it best:

“He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.”

Here’s a note to the feds – we’re concerned about our security, but we’re not scared, not like you think we are, not to the point that we want you to grope us in the name of security.

Food for thought: I’m wondering if this whole thing is more because the fed is scared – scared for their jobs and how they’ll look if something happens – than for our sake.

The actual quote is “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety”. And it’s often used in a hyperbolic fashion: in the wake of 9/11 and subsequent attempted attacks, it’s sensible and prudent to conduct these types of security screenings. This is not an example of people sacrificing essential liberties.
Pablo

If you like the TSA, you’re going to love ObamaCare.
Pablo

Uh oh.

Video: TSA body-searches a three-year-old girl

Make that a three year old girl screaming “Stop touching me!” and whose Dad is a TV reporter.
http://twitter.com/SailRabbits Magister

The only part of the fellow’s version that I might question would be whether his father-in-law had pleaded with just the TSA officials to be reasonable because considering that he’s just an in-law and the fellow sounds full of vinegar, I’d suspect there may have been a plea toward him.

And now that I mention it, the FIL doesn’t appear to have also been escorted from the airport, so was he allowed to board the flight and was he not subject to the same search?

As for the TSA guy at the end, perhaps they’ve tried to put in place some kind of regulation, but I really doubt it and mostly think that he was misinformed or full of shit. TSA is the Transportation Safety Administration, so if you’re not boarding a common carrier, then they have no jurisdiction.

In addition to the pure lack of logic concerning the leave-the-airport search that causes me to question the Guy In a Suit’s claim about civil penalties is the whole Libertarian Radio Host story that I learned about from Jalopnik, the other day. Of course the story from San Diego further debunks Ms McClain’s claims, but if the idea of a leave the airport search was real and universal, you’d think that in all her fameballing, she would’ve mentioned it.
dlauf87

Labaliente Foosallent said:
The fact is the TSA are using the threat and reality of RAPE to force people to choose to be irradiated and exposed to cancer causing rays so the TSA rapists can enjoy lots of porno they can masturbate to – or strangers whose gonads they can fondle.

FACT: they dig doing this to women while their husbands are watching. The helpless rage of the husband makes them feel powerful, a real drug for the TSA people, most all of which are subhuman grotesques unemployable in any other context.

FACT: it is rape.

The choice the TSA subhumans hold out is the same as the choice between being shot or sodomized at gun point.

All TSA agents must be indicted for RAPE or for aiding and abetting a rapist.

You know what these guys at TSA do when they’re done sexually assaulting women they feel up?

They keep the gloves they use and trade them for each other to sniff, catching scent from the women whose crotches they fondle. Yeah, they ARE that sick and twisted.

They stand around during breaks, sniffing them and laughing. Don’t ask how I know but it is NOT heresay. This is FACT.

Congressmen have to know this WILL happen to their wives! Their daughters! Their granddaughters. The TSA monsters are psychopathic sexual sadists.

On the day of the protest against TOTAL SEXUAL ASSAULT on Nov 24, go through the pat down with a full bladder and bowels and let them both go the very second that the TSA maggot touches your gonads. By the 20th time this happens, they’ll get the message.

If you can’t defecate and urinate on command, you can at least shriek, ‘RAPE! I AM BEING RAPED BY MY GOVERNMENT! RAPE!’ over and over again until you psss out when the TSA rapist touches you.

Was this a joke or has this guy never been on a plane? What the TSA do might be a little overboard, but it meets no legal definition of rape, and i don’t know about the rest of you but iv’e never had my genitals fondled.
dlauf87

…at security that is
http://twitter.com/SailRabbits Magister

dlauf87 said:
…at security that is

Good save!
dahni

I think the TSA can do better…. particularly if they do some profiling…huh? While I was being patted down and groped, a party of 4 males and 2 females dressed much like Muslims were given their stuff, their shoes and waved through. Why was I selected? I guess because I’m a 72 yo white, bald headed male. I asked why they were waved on and was told, ‘you’re the random pick”. Wow, we’re all protected? by the luck of the draw!

I do need to fly once in a while, but do avoid it unless absolutely necessary. Not because I’m afraid of the Muslim idiots, but because of the TSA idiots.
http://www.libertarianism.com/ Jack Burns

Pablo said:
Uh oh.

Video: TSA body-searches a three-year-old girl

Make that a three year old girl screaming “Stop touching me!” and whose Dad is a TV reporter.

No shite. You know the lengths we go to tell our children that ” NO ONE” has a right to touch them that way, and then we let these screener’s do that very thing! Talk about a mixed message. I can just see it now, Some pedophile says he works for TSA and needs to do a full body search on a 6 year old. What is the child to think. Well your TSA I guess its alright???
VRWC Destruction Machine

The TSA should adopt Israel’s EL AL airlines passenger screening procedures. It may be politically incorrect, but it has a good track record. The last time an EL AL flight was skyjacked was in 1968. If the TSA adopted Israel’s passenger screening techniques, the ACLU is sure to have a hissy fit. Tough shit. If they don’t like it they can underwrite a $100 million flight insurance policy against skyjacking or suicide bomb for every passenger that goes through normal TSA passenger procedures. Of course they would have to have the funds placed in an escrow acccount in case they have to honor their insurance policy.
http://www.youtube.com/user/OGjimbo OGjimbo

Some_Dude said:
The actual quote is “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety”. And it’s often used in a hyperbolic fashion: in the wake of 9/11 and subsequent attempted attacks, it’s sensible and prudent to conduct these types of security screenings. This is not an example of people sacrificing essential liberties.

This level of screening and groping of passengers was not required to prevent 9/11, simple metal detectors and a policy of no sharp objects on the plane would of stopped it dead in it’s tracks.

You really think law abiding citizens shouldn’t have the right to not be groped and touched by strangers?
Some_Dude

OGjimbo said:
This level of screening and groping of passengers was not required to prevent 9/11, simple metal detectors and a policy of no sharp objects on the plane would of stopped it dead in it’s tracks.

You really think law abiding citizens shouldn’t have the right to not be groped and touched by strangers?

They do: walk through the screening devices. If you set one off a few times, they perform a simple pat down. If you’re unruly or raise alarm otherwise, you get the full police rub down. I fly every few months, I’m no stranger to the process. And I’m not going to over react about it.

And sure, our security could be smarter about it overall, but that doesn’t mean what are doing is irrelevant or excessive – in my opinion.
http://www.anonymousfinch.com AnonymousFinch

Some_Dude said:
They do: walk through the screening devices. If you set one off a few times, they perform a simple pat down. If you’re unruly or raise alarm otherwise, you get the full police rub down. I fly every few months, I’m no stranger to the process. And I’m not going to over react about it.

And sure, our security could be smarter about it overall, but that doesn’t mean what are doing is irrelevant or excessive – in my opinion.

Out of curiosity, why do you use the image of a murderer as your avatar?
the real john t

AnonymousFinch said:
Out of curiosity, why do you use the image of a murderer as your avatar?

Why do you use an avatar of an actor playing a lawyer? Is that what you’re doing play acting as a lawyer?
hello11

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Bill Mahwer

Pablo said:
Uh oh.

Video: TSA body-searches a three-year-old girl

Make that a three year old girl screaming “Stop touching me!” and whose Dad is a TV reporter.

This is insanity.

We have to accept profiling at airports. The people they are searching now are not the ones they should be searching. We all know who blows up airliners and it is not the people that are being searched.
kabmn00

This guy is an assclown!!!!!!!!! Get a pilot’s liscense and buy a plane or STFU!!!!!!!

He probably is a hippie. I hate hippies.
the real john t

kabmn00 said:
He probably is a hippie. I hate hippies.

Hippie? How late does the nursing home let you stay up?
kabmn00

first, hippie does not deserve a H. Whiny liberal bitches who despise the USA so much. The great thing about OUR country is, if you do no like it here, LEAVE. The open border we do not secure goes both ways. GTFO
kabmn00

move to china
the real john t

kabmn00 said:
The open border we do not secure goes both ways. GTFO

And just who are you to be telling someone to get out of the US little man?
kabmn00

People with no regard to rules. Simple question, simple answer, from a simple person.
the real john t

kabmn00 said:
a simple person.

You sure hit the nail on the head there.
kabmn00

typical liberal, pick and choose words.
the real john t

kabmn00 said:
People with no regard to rules. Simple question, simple answer, from a simple person.

I’d like to know what gave you the right to tell someone giving their opinion to STFU and get out of the counrty.
kabmn00

Great, your quoting exactly yourself. I said if you do not like living in America, leave.
Thats it. Simple.
the real john t

kabmn00 said:
I said if you do not like living in America, leave.

Where did I say I didn’t like living in the US? Now where did you get the right to tell someone stating their opinion to STFU. Who made you the Dictator of this site?
kabmn00

That was a response to a-hole that would not listen to the RULES he was and should be subjected to. So to him STFU. Got t now.
kabmn00

it,sorry
the real john t

kabmn00 said:
That was a response to a-hole that would not listen to the RULES he was and should be subjected to.

Who’s rules YOURS? Typical RW asshole.
http://twitter.com/SailRabbits Magister

the real john t said:
Who’s rules YOURS?.

As I read it, the TSA’s.
the real john t

Magister said:
As I read it, the TSA’s.

Yes, you are right. But kabmn00 doesn’t think anyone has the right to speak out about those rules.
http://twitter.com/SailRabbits Magister

BTW: Now that I’ve actually listened to the first video and where it junctions over to the second, the father-in-law clearly spends a lot more time asking the blogger to “be reasonable” and then once it becomes obvious that his future ex-son-in-law has an agenda, he then asks a couple of times if the he could go through the metal detector, before he goes back to asking the blogger to give in.
ChrisNH

One look at ‘Big Sis’ and you just KNOW that she loves all this. You just KNOW it.
Some_Dude

AnonymousFinch said:
Out of curiosity, why do you use the image of a murderer as your avatar?

Can you name a warrior and revolutionary that saw actual battle, including our founding fathers, that couldn’t be interpreted as a murderer? Regarding Ernesto Guevara de la Serna directly, did he ever kill a person that wasn’t a combatant, rapist, or murderer?

Anyways, it’s Che. Would you shout “sacred bleu!” in public and ask a young person why they’re wearing a t-shirt with his visage on it? It doesn’t mean I agree with his ideals entirely or worship the man, it’s just an avatar I’m using right now on a web site.
baikal

FANNED
BlackWidow

AnonymousFinch said:
Out of curiosity, why do you use the image of a murderer as your avatar?

The same reason NUTSO uses Phil Spector. Gives them power or so they think.
whit350

VRWC Destruction Machine says:
November 14, 2010 at 9:49 pm VRWC Destruction Machine(Quote)

The TSA should adopt Israel’s EL AL airlines passenger screening procedures. It may be politically incorrect, but it has a good track record. The last time an EL AL flight was skyjacked was in 1968.<

I am a bit surprised at the number of posters supporting the TSA's ersatz security measures by bullying the public rather than protecting the public. It is not as if there were no alternatives. Since VRWC beat me to the EL AL reference I give him credit for stating the case as it should be stated.

Outside of being mislabeled and besmirched, what is wrong with profiling. You are being profiled every time you go through these lines whether you think you are or not, We have too many reports of abuse plus to many reports of letting Muslims pass even though when they are the sole reason we need to screen. The TSA is both a waste of time and an excessive waste of money with their ineffective posturing.

I am fairly confident in my ability to blow a plane out of the sky if I wanted to and had the backing these terrorist have. Not going to discuss any details but it is virtually impossible to block a determined effort but profiling has a way of identifying possibilities. One thing for sure, I would not try to pass something through the line that would trigger an alarm. Therefore all this bullying will have no effect toward security.

So those of you who think the TSA needs to be so aggressive, are you opposed to profiling and why?
justanotherconservative

Labaliente Foosallent said:
The fact is the TSA are using the threat and reality of RAPE to force people to choose to be irradiated and exposed to cancer causing rays so the TSA rapists can enjoy lots of porno they can masturbate to – or strangers whose gonads they can fondle. FACT: they dig doing this to women while their husbands are watching. The helpless rage of the husband makes them feel powerful, a real drug for the TSA people, most all of which are subhuman grotesques unemployable in any other context. FACT: it is rape. The choice the TSA subhumans hold out is the same as the choice between being shot or sodomized at gun point. All TSA agents must be indicted for RAPE or for aiding and abetting a rapist. You know what these guys at TSA do when they’re done sexually assaulting women they feel up? They keep the gloves they use and trade them for each other to sniff, catching scent from the women whose crotches they fondle. Yeah, they ARE that sick and twisted. They stand around during breaks, sniffing them and laughing. Don’t ask how I know but it is NOT heresay. This is FACT. Congressmen have to know this WILL happen to their wives! Their daughters! Their granddaughters. The TSA monsters are psychopathic sexual sadists. On the day of the protest against TOTAL SEXUAL ASSAULT on Nov 24, go through the pat down with a full bladder and bowels and let them both go the very second that the TSA maggot touches your gonads. By the 20th time this happens, they’ll get the message. If you can’t defecate and urinate on command, you can at least shriek, ‘RAPE! I AM BEING RAPED BY MY GOVERNMENT! RAPE!’ over and over again until you psss out when the TSA rapist touches you.

oh honey, take your meds for christs sake.
whit350

A bit more. The sound on the clips was not good enough for my ears so I couldn’t understand what was being said.

What I want to point out is that blowing a plane out of the sky by a passenger is a suicide mission on his part, therefore whe would not be the one doing the planning. Why do we always act like he is the sole planner and executioner of those plans? We can hardly be that stupid so the next best guess is blindness. It it strategy by the evil spirit driving the agenda and he has access to both sides of the equation. There can be no compromise, only choice and we do not have to make the right choice. We can suffer from the wrong choice but cannot excape the consequences just because we meant well.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Mark-Ward/100000135233619 Mark Ward

Can the TSA GUARANTEE that NONE of the male TSA Agents performing the pat-down are GAY (or, can I request the really attractive FEMALE TSA agent to do MY pat-down)?

I’m sorry, but, as a STRAIGHT man, having a GAY male agent doing MY pat-down is NO DIFFERENT than having a STRAIGHT MALE doing the pat-down of a woman. IT’S WRONG.

TO HELL with “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” in the Military – I WANT TO KNOW (in point of fact, I DEMAND TO KNOW) that IF I get a pat-down, it will be NOT be done by a GAY Male!

It’s TIME to DEMAND (from our Government) that this STUPID Politically Correct implementation of “Security” HAD gotten out of control!

Blond, blue-eyed Norwegians do NOT represent a significant THREAT to the safety of air travel. It IS the Radical Muslim Male (mostly between the ages of 16 and 40) who represents the VAST MAJORITY of terrorist activity around the world.

IT IS CRIMIAL to NOT give THIS group HIGHTENED SCRUTINY!

To WASTE the time of EVERYONE (or worse, to perform RANDOM searches [which, by their very design can, and do, SKIP the very people who ARE members of the HIGHEST RISK GROUP]) does NOTHING to improve air safety!
Labaliente Foosallent

The TSA is a criminally insane cult of self-hating homosexual psychopaths bent on savaging the lives of everyone in America who would not regard them as human beings or have sex with them.

Understand one thing: the psychopathic TSA agent strolling over to stroke your genitals is a rapist whose whole life is a nightmarescape of self-hatred and desperation. The TSA rapist’s only sense of self-worth comes from the sexual humiliation of his betters. Most likely, they are homosexual predators who cannot get satisfaction from same-sex partners because they are rejected by all human beings as disgusting subhumans.

Most can only get sex by covering their genitals with peanut butter and climbing into a cage at the zoo.

Fear them. Stay away from them. Tell your friends and neighbors and kids to demand the TSA be disbanded and all its employees placed on sex crimes registries.
lovelee

Labaliente Foosallent says The TSA is a criminally insane cult of self-hating homosexual psychopaths bent on savaging the lives of everyone in America who would not regard them as human beings or have sex with them.

Understand one thing: the psychopathic TSA agent strolling over to stroke your genitals is a rapist whose whole life is a nightmarescape of self-hatred and desperation. The TSA rapist’s only sense of self-worth comes from the sexual humiliation of his betters. Most likely, they are homosexual predators who cannot get satisfaction from same-sex partners because they are rejected by all human beings as disgusting subhumans.

THIS IS SO SURREAL ARE YOU CHANNELING DALI?
anyone who ever smuggled contraband into concerts knows this is the very area security always used to miss.
we now live & wish to fly in the world of the “underwear bomber” & TSA are only trying to help us fly safely.
i would like to hear more specifics about the isreali security system & how we could utilize it.
Sidhekitten

I suspect that Greyhound is about get a lot more riders.
Sidhekitten

First let apologize if I repeat anyone, but I have not read other comments on purpose.

Let me be crystal clear on this issue, this is BAD policy in the extreme. Without divulging things that I legally am forbidden to say, let me say that I used to be apart of the counter-terrorism effort before it was “vogue” to speak of it. (Pre 9/11).

One of the most basic precepts on the subject is that a Terrorist can win by one of two ways. The terrorist wins by either successfully engaging the target (killing you) or by causing the target government to OVERREACT!

The overreaction generally occurs in one of two ways. First, the target government overacts and oppresses the terrorist own people thus causing a new generation of terrorists. Second, and more insidious, is that the government overeats and oppresses the entire population, which either causes a fear based reaction by the population (save us big brother, save us) or a resentment based reaction (you touch my junk and I will have you arrested).

In this round Al-Qaeda is clearly winning. Many Americans are willing ready to trade their freedoms for safety and in the end as Franklin would say, they will have neither. In my opinion, Al-Qaeda is laughing their at us, they are winning without killing a soul. The question becomes, are you an American or are you a sheep? We must call a halt to this overreach before our freedoms mean nothing.

Don’t get me started on the physical security measures, that is a whole different disaster.
Sidhekitten

And thank you so much Fed. Gov’t for destroying our Airline industry.
1776blues

Before people tell others to leave or move to China, perhaps they should read the comments of people who fly to and from China. Also, many people I heard on talk shows say what commenter’s have written; China’s security is not as strict as ours. For one they don’t make you take your shoes off, they don’t strip search you or little children.

The people who still think we are free are delusional. As for leaving the country well crossing the border requires a passport. This saying that you need permission to leave, so you are not free to leave whenever you like. The measures the government is taking is a crackdown on America because we used to be free. So, with the Patriot Act and other draconian laws passed, the FBI’s ability to search your home without telling you and without a search warrant, police beating people for no reason, the foreclosures by companies who don’t have the deed to your property, a Congress who passes legislation despite overwhelming opposition, a country that tortures, invades sovereign nations who have not attacked us SOUNDS LIKE A FEW COUNTRIES THAT NOT TOO LONG AGO did much of the same to its own people.

Many people in this country suffer from Stockholm syndrome and its sad to see a country who sees itself as free and holds onto a past when it was free.

Love and Stockholm Syndrome: The Mystery of Loving an Abuser (Part 1)
http://counsellingresource.com/quizzes/stockholm/

excerpt from part 2;

“Cognitive Dissonance” explains how and why people change their ideas and opinions to support situations that do not appear to be healthy, positive, or normal. In the theory, an individual seeks to reduce information or opinions that make him or her uncomfortable. When we have two sets of cognitions (knowledge, opinion, feelings, input from others, etc.) that are the opposite, the situation becomes emotionally uncomfortable. Even though we might find ourselves in a foolish or difficult situation — few want to admit that fact. Instead, we attempt to reduce the dissonance — the fact that our cognitions don’t match, agree, or make sense when combined. “Cognitive Dissonance” can be reduced by adding new cognitions — adding new thoughts and attitudes.
1776blues

correction; I forgot to add “we are not free” after “So” and my above post should read;

So, we are not free, with the Patriot Act and other draconian laws passed, the FBI’s ability to search your home without……………………………………….