Saturday, November 27, 2010

Tyner wouldn't enable Transportation Security Administration to molest him prior to airline flight

Based on passenger Tyner, TSA airport terminal screening has gone too far. ABC News reports that all Tyner was trying to do had been hop a airline flight out of San Diego. No full body scanner that exposed his genitals on a video screen or advanced patdown had been acceptable to him that day, however TSA pressed its advantage. Thus, he was summarily ejected from the airport.

’If you touch my junk, I’m going to have you arrested,’ is what was heard from John Tyner

The airport security screening difficulties have bothered passengers like John Tyner for a while. You will find more aggressive front hand patdowns because of the TSA authorizing it. This has led to many claiming sexual molestation or sexual assault has happened including passengers and pilots. About 30 minutes of video coverage is available to everyone who wants to watch it on YouTube. John Tyner used his cell phone video camera to record it his ordeal with TSA security.

The reaction Tyner gave to the TSA official was "If you touch my junk, I’m going to have you arrested." As you would guess, it seemed like a very significant threat to the TSA official. John Tyner wasn’t going to readily submit to an invasive search. The video clip had some dialogue in there noteworthy. This is what it was:

TSA Supervisor, in regards to the groin patdown: “If you’re not comfortable with that, we can escort you back out and you don’t have to fly today.”

John Tyner: "OK, I don’t understand how a sexual assault can be made a condition of my flying.”

TSA Supervisor: “This is not considered a sexual assault.”

John Tyner: “It would be if you were not the government. … I’d like only my wife and maybe my doctor to touch me there.”

Opt Out Day causing more patdowns

As a protest to Homeland Security and TSA’s policy of using either the Advanced Imaging Technology that strips people naked in a virtual sense or submitting to "enhanced" patdowns, Brian Sodegren and the online group Opt Out Day are encouraging Thanksgiving fliers to take a stand. Opt out of the quick scan option and produce the kind of patdown gridlock that will make the government take notice, suggests Sodegren.

Pilots, flight attendants and passengers like John Tyner have shown a backlash of anger although customers are urged to "use some common sense" by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.



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