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Title: 'We hate obese passengers and people with personal hygiene issues:' Now 'abused' TSA staff vent their anger at patdown searches My Title: [Pigs being pigs: Pigs too Stupid for their Own Good]
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Published: Dec 1, 2010
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Post Date: 2010-12-01 11:37:23 by Eric Stratton
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'We Hate Obese Passengers and People with Personal Hygiene Issues:' Now 'abused' TSA Staff Vent Their Anger at Patdown Searches Furious security staff today hit back at pat down searches in airports across America, claiming that they hated dealing with obese travellers and those with personal hygiene problems. As millions of people prepared to travel for Thanksgiving, passenger backlash was growing against the measures introduced by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). But after being contacted by a travel blog, 17 security staff came forward to express their disgust at the policy put in place last month. They said that they hated having to carry out body searches, with one claiming that it was worse for him than the passenger. 'It is not comfortable to come to work knowing full well that my hands will be feeling another man’s private parts, their butt, their inner thigh,' one told the BoardingArea blog. 'Even worse is having to try and feel inside the flab rolls of obese passengers and we seem to get a lot of obese passengers!' Another said he had a huge problem dealing with a 'large number of passengers... daily that have a problem understanding what personal hygieneFur is.' All the staff said that they had experienced a high level of personal abuse while carrying out the pat-downs. 'Being a TSO means often being verbally abused, you let the comments roll off and check the next person,' one said. 'However, when a woman refuses the scanner then comes to me and tells me that she feels like I am molesting her, that is beyond verbal abuse. 'I asked the woman if she thought I like touching other women all day and she told me that I probably did or I wouldn’t be with the TSA. 'I just want to tell these people that I feel disgusted feeling other peoples private parts, but I cannot because I am a professional.' Angry passengers have subjected TSA officers to verbal abuse and even physical threats. The American Federation of Government Employee, the union which represents officers, said a TSO was punched by a passenger in Indianapolis. Union President John Gage called for more information on the searches including leaflets for passengers. He said: 'TSA must act now — before the Thanksgiving rush — to ensure that TSOs are not being left to fend for themselves.' Up to two million passengers per day are expected to fly today and tomorrow ahead of Thanksgiving, with huge delays expected. Meanwhile, one patient traveller has proved it is possible to bypass the high-level security measures in place at all airports, but only if you have time on your hands. Blogger Matt Kernan recorded his epic experience as he returned to North Kentucky International Airport in Cincinnati from Paris on Sunday. Exasperated at being told to prepare for a body scan and with time on his hands, the determined businessman decided to make a stand - with remarkable results. Writing on his website noblasters.com, he said: 'I certainly don’t enjoy being treated like a terrorist in my own country, but I’m also not a die-hard constitutional rights advocate. 'However, for some reason, I was irked.' 'Maybe it was the video of the three-year old getting molested, maybe it was the sexual assault victim having to cry her way through getting groped, maybe it was the father watching teenage TSA officers joke about his attractive daughter. 'Whatever it was, this issue didn’t sit right with me. We shouldn’t be required to do this simply to get into our own country.' As a result, Mr Kernan informed staff he did not want to go through the infamous Backscatter imaging machine. He was told he would have to undergo an invasive pat-down search, but again politely told staff that he would consider any contact with his genital areas as assault. After being told that the two options were TSA policy, he replied: ' I disagree with the policy, and I think that it is unconstitutional. No exemptions: Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa goes through an Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT) full-body scanner at the city's airport 'As a US citizen, I have the right to move freely within my country as long as I can demonstrate proof of citizenship and have demonstrated no reasonable cause to be detained.' As the situation escalated further airport police were called and more senior TSA officials but Mr Kernan refused to back down, remaining calm throughout. Eventually causing a stand-off between police and TSA officers over who should resolve the situation, Mr Kernan was told by a superviser: 'Here’s what we’re going to do. I’m going to escort you out of the terminal to the public area. 'You are to stay with me at all times. Do you understand?' He was then escorted by the police and no less than 13 TSA officer through security without a hand laid on him. He said: 'And then came the most ridiculous scene of which I’ve ever been a part. 'I gather my things – jacket, scarf, hat, briefcase, chocolates. 'We walk over to the staff entrance and he scans his badge to let me through. We walk down the long hallway that led back to the baggage claim area. We skip the escalators and moving walkways.' He was then waved away by annoyed officers and said: 'In order to enter the US, I was never touched, I was never “Backscatted,” and I was never metal detected. 'In the end, it took 2.5 hours, but I proved that it is possible. I’m looking forward to my next flight on Wednesday.' THE INCIDENTS FUELLING THE OUTCRY A flight attendant and cancer survivor revealed her horror at being forced to show her prosthetic breast to a security agent during a pat-down at Charlotte Douglas International Airport. Cathy Bossi said two female Charlotte TSA agents subjected her to what Ms Bossi described as an aggressive pat down. She said they stopped when they got around to feeling her right breast - the one she had lost through her illness. She was then apparently asked to remove the prosthetic breast from her bra and show it to the TSA agents. 'There are blowers and there are dogs out there that can sniff out bombs', she said. 'There's no reason to have somebody's hands touching your body parts.' Another woman is also comparing her experience at Lambert Airport in St. Louis to being sexually assaulted. Penny Moroney was flying home to Chicago when while going through security, the metal in her artificial knees set off the detectors. She had to undergo more screening because of the alarm going off and when Ms Moroney asked if she could go through a body scanner she was told none were available. The only alternative offered to Ms Moroney was a pat-down which she said she found a horrific experience. '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 the outside of my slacks, and patted my genitals', Ms Moroney explained. 'I was shaking and crying when I left that room. Under any other circumstance, if a person touched me like that without my permission, it would be considered criminal sexual assault.' And in a third incident security footage showed three-year-old Mandy Simon sobbing and pleading with staff to 'Stop touching me' as she searched in Chattanooga, Tennessee. She had become upset after her teddy bear was put through an X-ray machine. Bladder cancer survivor Thomas Sawyer, 61, was left 'humiliated' after a pat-down search burst his urostomy bag leaving him covered in his own urine. He said: 'I am totally appalled by the fact that agents that are performing these pat-downs have so little concern for people with medical conditions.' The incident occurred on November 7 at Detroit Metropolitan Airport and Mr Sawyer claims staff ignored his pleas about the bag. However at San Diego Airport on Friday, Samuel Wolanyk stripped down to his underwear rather than walk through a body imaging machine. He refused to put his clothes back and was arrested for not allowing security officials to search him
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#1. To: Eric Stratton (#0)
Everyone who goes to the airport should not take a bath for two weeks.
"If ever this vast country is brought under a single government, it will be one of the most extensive corruption, indifferent and incapable of a wholesome care over so wide a spread of surface. This will not be borne, and you will have to choose between reform and revolution. If I know the spirit of this country, the one or the other is inevitable." - Thomas Jefferson
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." - Ben Franklin
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." - Ben Franklin
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." - Ben Franklin
"They" have the magic TSA card which waves them through security. Yes, it is true. TSA screeners do NOT have to go through any security whatsoever to get into the "sterile" area to report to work. Guess how they travel? You got it! They show their TSA ID card and get waved right through while you get the anal probe and tampon swab.
A people unwilling to use force, once diplomatic efforts have been exhausted, in order to preserve or obtain their liberty deserves the tyrants that rule over them.
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." - Ben Franklin
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." - Ben Franklin
I don't think so for one reason alone. This is a trial run to see how much people will take. Already, companies and individuals are curtailing their travel activities. On a normal day, TSA claims there are 2M passengers that go through airports. On the "busiest day of the year" there were 1.6M passengers that went through TSA checkpoints. Opt-Out day was a success. Now, assuming that people continue to curtail and redirect their travel dollars, that will put pressure on the airlines (and TSA because they are funded through airline ticket fees) to change how things work. Couple that with the fact that the US is broke and living on borrowed money and you have a recipe for disaster. Remember, the Soviet Police State imploded when they went broke. The exact same thing will happen in America. It is inevitable. It is just a matter of time. History shows that will happen. The only question we need to ask is this: What will the TSA goons do once they stop being paid to molest the public? What will the public do if the TSA goons start "taking it out" on the public? It will not end well, but it will end one way or the other.
A people unwilling to use force, once diplomatic efforts have been exhausted, in order to preserve or obtain their liberty deserves the tyrants that rule over them.
I had never heard of personal hygieneFur--wtf does an animal with that look like anyway?
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. He (Gordon Duff) also implies that forcibly removing Obama, a Constitution-hating, on-the-down-low, crackhead Communist, is an attack on America, Mom, and apple pie. I swear these military people are worse than useless. Just look around at the condition of the country and tell me if they have fulfilled their oaths to protect the nation from all enemies foreign and domestic.
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." - Ben Franklin
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." - Ben Franklin
Which is exactly what the people doing the hiring for these jobs want. As I've commented before - people with an above average I.Q. need not apply. They want stupid dolts who will do anything they are told and enjoy harassing people with their overblown sense of importance. The "not quite bright" is the exact profile the TSA/controllers want for the job. They don't ask questions and they will literally do anything they are told to do. If they were given orders to shoot random passengers as a warning to "potential Terrists'" they would shoot random passengers and then complain about having to clean up the mess of splattered brains all over the place.
"One of the least understood strategies of the world revolution now moving rapidly toward its goal is the use of mind control as a major means of obtaining the consent of the people who will be subjects of the New World Order." K.M. Heaton, The National Educator
LOL! That is one of those things that is funny in a sad kind of way.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. He (Gordon Duff) also implies that forcibly removing Obama, a Constitution-hating, on-the-down-low, crackhead Communist, is an attack on America, Mom, and apple pie. I swear these military people are worse than useless. Just look around at the condition of the country and tell me if they have fulfilled their oaths to protect the nation from all enemies foreign and domestic. Travel managers within companies are usually the ones to deal with hotels and airlines and make arrangements. Companies usually contract deals for lower prices with both carriers and hotel chains. They are getting an earful. At my place of employment, the CEO issued a bulletin stating that he does not blame anyone for not wanting to travel under these circumstances and assigned a VP to ensure that teleconference and "online meeting" facilities could handle the overflow. Customers who would ordinarily come out for either a tour or a demo have not been showing up in the droves they used to. That should say it all, really.
A people unwilling to use force, once diplomatic efforts have been exhausted, in order to preserve or obtain their liberty deserves the tyrants that rule over them.
All they have to do is quit wearing those silly latex gloves and wear HAZMAT [environmental protection] suits. Problem solved!
Yes, you Americans could live like us Europeans. lol Not that we wait a fortnight or anything, it's just we don't have that custom usually of showering twice a day.. lol But, yes, piss off the TSA by coming into an airport stink. lol
Solutions for Ireland. Say NO to the IMF/World bank. Default on our debt. Print our own debt free currency. Nationalise the trillion euros worth of gas and oil off our west coast. Take back our fishing (200 billion worth). Get our farmers growing again. Done deal if our politicians had the backbone. ~ Jim Corr
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." - Ben Franklin
She can quit. No one is forcing anyone to do that job. Yes they need the money, but there are more important things than money, like dignity, respect, and having a good conscience that you are not helping the evil elite.
God is always good!
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." - Ben Franklin
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." - Ben Franklin
In other words, you don't reckon you will be touching some other man's "junk," eh? LOL! I have to agree with you on that.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. He (Gordon Duff) also implies that forcibly removing Obama, a Constitution-hating, on-the-down-low, crackhead Communist, is an attack on America, Mom, and apple pie. I swear these military people are worse than useless. Just look around at the condition of the country and tell me if they have fulfilled their oaths to protect the nation from all enemies foreign and domestic. Thanks for posting the videos. They're interesting, at least that one that I have watched a part of is. It's hard to believe the inhumanity people are capable of. I have no desire to hurt anyone and I don't think I would just because some "authority figure" told me to. Not saying I couldn't be forced to hurt someone or that I wouldn't fight back if they were hurting me or someone in my family or a friend but not just hurt someone because some ah said to.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. He (Gordon Duff) also implies that forcibly removing Obama, a Constitution-hating, on-the-down-low, crackhead Communist, is an attack on America, Mom, and apple pie. I swear these military people are worse than useless. Just look around at the condition of the country and tell me if they have fulfilled their oaths to protect the nation from all enemies foreign and domestic. deleted
The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." - Ben Franklin
Yeah, you and me both. I don't want others to violate my rights and I try to treat other people the way I want them to treat me. And I don't think I have any right to abuse others--by the same token, they have no right to abuse me.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. He (Gordon Duff) also implies that forcibly removing Obama, a Constitution-hating, on-the-down-low, crackhead Communist, is an attack on America, Mom, and apple pie. I swear these military people are worse than useless. Just look around at the condition of the country and tell me if they have fulfilled their oaths to protect the nation from all enemies foreign and domestic. The TSA goons can solve the problem in short order. Refuse to do the searches, strike if necessary, or quit the job.
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#3. To: Turtle (#1)
#4. To: All (#0)
#5. To: Eric Stratton (#4)
I wonder what these moronic assholes are going to think when they can't leave town with similar shit occurring to them.
#6. To: mirage (#5)
#7. To: mirage (#5)
#8. To: Eric Stratton (#7)
The result of this police state is going to be worse than it was in the worst of Russia/USSR!!
#9. To: Eric Stratton (#2)
have a problem understanding what personal hygieneFur is.'
Lord Acton
OsamaBinGoldstein posted on 2010-05-25 9:39:59 ET (2 images) Reply Trace
#10. To: Eric Stratton (#0)
'It is not comfortable to come to work knowing full well that my hands will be feeling another man’s private parts, their butt, their inner thigh,' one told the BoardingArea blog.
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#12. To: TwentyTwelve (#10)
#13. To: Eric Stratton, TwentyTwelve (#12)
Although, most of 'em, by the looks of it upon wandering through, don't look as if they're capable of contributing to much more than a low-end job.
#14. To: Original_Intent (#13)
If they were given orders to shoot random passengers as a warning to "potential Terrists'" they would shoot random passengers and then complain about having to clean up the mess of splattered brains all over the place.
Lord Acton
OsamaBinGoldstein posted on 2010-05-25 9:39:59 ET (2 images) Reply Trace
#15. To: Eric Stratton (#11)
Individuals perhaps, but companies too, ... for this reason?
#16. To: Eric Stratton (#0)
Furious [TSA] security staff today hit back at pat down searches in airports across America, claiming that they hated dealing with obese travellers and those with personal hygiene problems.
#17. To: Turtle (#1)
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Everyone who goes to the airport should not take a bath for two weeks.
#18. To: Original_Intent (#13)
#19. To: Eric Stratton (#0)
'I just want to tell these people that I feel disgusted feeling other peoples private parts, but I cannot because I am a professional.'
#20. To: James Deffenbach (#14)
#21. To: RickyJ (#19)
#22. To: Eric Stratton (#18)
I mean if I had work whereby someone told me I had to jack someone off, I gotta tell ya, my badge, hat, and special decoder ring would be on their desk before they finished their sentence!
Lord Acton
OsamaBinGoldstein posted on 2010-05-25 9:39:59 ET (2 images) Reply Trace
#23. To: Eric Stratton (#20)
Lord Acton
OsamaBinGoldstein posted on 2010-05-25 9:39:59 ET (2 images) Reply Trace
#24. To: James Deffenbach (#22)
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#25. To: Eric Stratton (#24)
Dude, very seriously, if I had been employed when the TSA decided to go sexual offender, I'd have quit before my first "frisk."
Lord Acton
OsamaBinGoldstein posted on 2010-05-25 9:39:59 ET (2 images) Reply Trace
#26. To: Eric Stratton (#0)
Waiting too late to oppose tyranny has always led to bloodshed.
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#27. To: Eric Stratton (#0)
That last part is rich.
'I just want to tell these people that I feel disgusted feeling other peoples private parts, but I cannot because I am a professional.'
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#28. To: Eric Stratton (#0)
Start a rumor that the purpose of the scanners is to sterilize blacks.
A Paul for President!
Whites need to be shown darkie won't vote for him.
#29. To: Critter (#26)
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one.
"Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." - Ben Franklin
#30. To: X-15 (#27)
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one.
"Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." - Ben Franklin
#31. To: Prefrontal Vortex (#28)
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one.
"Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." - Ben Franklin
#32. To: Eric Stratton (#31)
Traction with who?
A Paul for President!
Whites need to be shown darkie won't vote for him.
#33. To: Prefrontal Vortex (#32)
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one.
"Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." - Ben Franklin
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