TSA agents would not let Amy Strand onto a plane at Lihue airport in Kauai without proving that her breast pump was real. She was told that the bottles had to be full of milk before she could get on the plane. The woman asked for a private place to pump and they directed her to a public restroom (where Pharmer suspects they might have a camera). The woman had to pump at the sink area in full view of everyone entering and leaving the restroom.
The TSA has responded to the publicity by stating that the agent made a mistake.
The good senator is already an enemy of the TSA, and perhaps they were trying to show him who is boss by making him miss his flight to Washington DC. Senator Rand Paul scheduled to speak at the big Right to Life Event in Washington DC, and vote in the Senate today, but his schedule was interrupted by the gropers in Nashville.
A scanner indicated a glitch at his knee, and Paul lifted his trouser leg to expose the area. But that was NOT enough. The TSA officials wanted to grope the rest of his parts too. Rand Paul declined and was detained for some time. After a subsequent scan revealed no problems, the Senator caught a later flight to his destination.
This earned the Transportation Security Agency more bad commercials from Rand Paul’s father who is running for president.
Rand Paul himself has always opposed the over reach of the TSA, calling them clueless for targeting six year old kids, the disabled and others who are obviously not terrorists.
From the funspot of Infowars comes some text from H.R. 3011 concerning the Transportation Security Administration “Department of Molestation”.
This bill contains language to prohibit the use of logos and words containing TSA, or variants thereof, and imitations of the logo design, and make such use a federal crime.
Apparently the extensive body of satire and parody of the TSA has hit some raw nerves.
The language exists in section 295 of the bill, so if you’re making money, or deriving amusement from making fun of the TSA, you had better write your congressman.
The Obama administration is a heavy email spam source, as his media noted after the latest Jobs speech last Thursday. If you don’t want that in your main email box, get a nice, free web address with whatever name you want to attach to it. For fun, you could try Davie Axelwod, or Ram Emmanuel, to lampoon some old friends you once knew.
Then… very politely, send links showing stories and video of Union misbehavior, trashing of the landscape after leftie gatherings, uncivil behavior from the left wingers, TSA gropings, etc.
Let them see themselves as others see them.
New: 9-15-11 The Snitch Site has become a laughingstock all over the web
John Mica, Florida Republican is embarrassed by the TSA created in one of his bills. He’s chairman of the House Transportation Committee, and says that TSA should be scrapped and privatized.
The Transportation Security Administration has grown into a 9 billion dollar disaster, with rampant mismanagement of funds and resources, as well as questionable workforce which has become known for thievery and abuse.
Here’s Mica’s short list of the countries which run airport security using similar models as the U.S.: Bulgaria, Romania, Poland, and maybe Libya. That tells you something, doesn’t it?
Yukari Miyamae has been released and allowed to go home to Longmont Colorado. Felony charges will not be pressed, but she might face misdemeanor charges for grabbing a TSA agent. It seems that the altercation was over her wishing not to go through the scanner. She’s a frequent flier, and one can imagine the reasons why she has no love for the “rays”.
Miyamae has supporters (see comment) who wish for her to suffer no felony charges as she was defending herself from an impending assault on her person. One of them brought news of her motivations to this blog.
Pharmer understands COMPLETELY, and wishes to delay flying until the TSA learns to behave itself.
The usual economic pressures of boycotting would not induce this government (which is intent on downsizing the economic power of the U.S.) to rein in the TSA. There is hope that the next administration will want to assist the recovery of the airline industry by putting a stop to the groping.
Update on Yukari Miyamae’s name…. Fox news alternatively transliterates her name as Mihamae, or Miyamae. Go with Miyamae – sorry, facebook supporters.
Here’s Pharmer’s guess on the Kanji, hiragana and pronunciation.
Beware 95 year old women wearing adult incontinence products. Those things could fill up, explode, and blow up a plane! That’s the apparent view of Homeland Insecurity, which requires the TSA to be groping underneath the diapers of the extremely elderly.
Rick Perry put that TX law which would criminalize enhanced pat downs by the TSA back on the agenda for the special session of the legislature. It has previously passed the house, but was pulled off the senate agenda after some sabre rattling by U.S. Atty. John Murphy.
Check out this majority opinion on strip searching, regarding a female patting down a male prisoner.
“The right to be free from strip searches and degrading body inspections is … basic to the concept of privacy,” Judge Johnnie Rawlinson said in the majority opinion, quoting an earlier ruling.
University of Cincinnati student, Aaron B. Tobey got nearly naked at Richmond International airport in protest of the TSA’s unlawful groping of airline travelers.
On Tobey’s body was this message: “Amendment 4: The right of the people to be secure against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated,”
Tobey was arrested, and cited for disorderly conduct. He’ll have to appear in court on January 10.
Hat’s off to Aaron for being willing to take the heat in defense of the Constitution.
FBI agents have been interviewing members of the Messianic Jewish Bible study group attended by Scott Roeder, the man who killed abortionist George Tiller in 2009. They have not yet wearied of looking for possible conspirators in the killing. Additionally, Roeder has been sentenced to life, with no possibility of parole for 50 years, thus establishing Tiller as more significant and important than ordinary humans.
The government steadfastly ignored the multitudinous threats to assassinate George W Bush, and supplications for help in this endeavor on the internet, as well as IRL. The movie on this topic is considered art. A chronicle of the most currently acceptable extremism exists at Michelle Malkin’s site. This acceptance would not be the case for any publications about assassinating an abortionist.
The government might not have found Hillary leftie enough as Secretary of State, as it appears she may be stepping down. Has Obama reached record turnover of his administration yet?
It’s appears to be possible to offend the TSA’s trained gropers if a person’s personal hygiene is sub standard, or if their body size is larger and there are additional crevices to be searched.
Perhaps adding some things for these government workers to find as they search would be fun. Make it a treasure hunt. Remember the old haunted houses with peeled grapes used to simulate eyeballs, and spaghetti prepared to simulate brains? Imagine the TSA agent reaching into your pants, and pulling out a special deposit of tripe, purchased from the local Walmart grocery. Menudo!
Be creative….. and give them a day to remember. A little Saran wrap against your skin would be a good idea to isolate whatever treasures you might be hiding. It might also slightly impede the transmission of unwanted organisms carried by the passenger in front of you. The gate rapists are not washing and changing gloves between searches as they should.
The article linked at the top, of course from foreign press, is a treasure trove of information.
Matt Kernan describes how he entered the U.S. from Paris without a body scan or pat down at the destination, merely by politely resisting the attempts by security to do so. After wearing down the TSA workers, their supervisors and the police, he was finally escorted out of the sterile area by a circuitous route, and allowed to proceed on his way.
Some people who are unlucky in love have resorted to satisfying themselves with purchased services.
TSA now offers a service for those who like to expose themselves……. the full body scanner guarantees a captive audience.
Also there is the standard pat down for those who like a bit of light personal service.
A more vigorous form of stimulation is now available (since October) called the “resolution pat down” if one prefers heavier physical contact with more attention given to the private parts.
These services can be provided in conjunction with short flights for quite a bit less money than one might pay in the the urban areas for clean, professional stimulation.
These obvious facts point towards a tax payer supported industry which will service a regular clientele of fliers who OPT IN for special sexual services at BARGAIN rates. An airline ticket and a bit of metal apparel to ring the alarm are the only requirements for admission to the TSA Relaxation Center.
You didn’t think your taxes would be at work this way, DID you!?
It appears that the red-faced TSA will be investigating Johnny Edge, the now-famous blogger for his temerity in refusing to fly, because he did not need or want the above mentioned services.
Pharmer encourages John to monetize the blog, to raise funds for the fine, or for legal services he might engage in giving more publicity to the TSA “services” enumerated above.
November 24th is national opt out day, your opportunity to decline the body scanners at the airport, by going for the pat down, or finding an alternate mode of transportation.
Be prepared for clogged airport security checks during the holiday season as more and more people take the less convenient option of a pat down, and cork up the works.
As for Pharmer’s family…… we bought an RV. No recreational flying for us is in the near future. Maybe economic circumstances, or the availability of cheap RVs will help you make a similar decision. Maybe the trains and buses will have booming business.
It won’t be good for airline business if people choose other modes of travel in order to dodge air travel as much as possible. Maybe they’ll be inspired to lobby hard for changes in the Transportation Security Administration’s flash and grope policy.
You see….. Janet Napolitano had a policy promulgated within the Transportation Security Administration which limited Internet Access.
Most interestingly, sites which conveyed “controversial opinions” were to be blocked, among others which might be expected to be blocked at work for productivity’s sake. Acess to gaming sites, and chat rooms was cut off. For your amusement: Porn sites were not included among those blocked at the TSA. Perhaps it is felt that they engendered some form of productivity.
This internet censorship was blared out at the Drudge Report and in innumerable conservative blogs, to the extent that Napolitano rescinded the policy. Read up!
The Obama administration cannot even pass a minor amount of methane without the alternative media conveying the details to US, and you know Obama hates that kind of transparency.
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