Rhonda Mengert, whose age was not given, filed suit last Wednesday against the TSA and two unnamed employees for a search that she said was not only unwarranted but also humiliating enough to veer into the traumatic.
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... It was during the pat-down that they encountered the feminine hygiene product.
“Literally millions of women in the United States wear such items on any given day, and therefore finding one during a TSA pat-down is not at all an uncommon occurrence,” the complaint notes.
Then they told her to drop her drawers.
“I was just stunned; stunned when they said that I had to do that,” Mengert told KLAS-TV. “It’s surreal… I was accosted. I had no personal ability to protect myself against them; they took it away.”
She acquiesced to that demand as well, removed the articles of clothing, got dressed again, and then asked to leave. They ignored her, according to the complaint — not once but three times.
Finally, the fourth time she asked, they let her go.
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Women will see scanner plan doesn't get off the ground | NJ.com
"When you go to the airport, you do not give up your constitutional rights, no matter what the TSA says," Doherty said yesterday at a Statehouse news conference.
"We have state laws against illegal touching and against sexual touching," said the right-wing Republican.
via blog.nj.com
How secure is your next flight?
One of the reasons I have not flown in quite a long time.
Hot Air » Blog Archive » A Pilot on Airline SecurityAt this moment, there are roughly 5000 commercial airliners in the skies above you. There will be 28,000 flights today, and 840,000 in the next month — every month. The U.S. fleet consists of some 6000 aircraft — almost all of which will be parked unattended tonight at a public airport. We will carry almost 7 billion passengers this year, the number increasing to 10 billion by 2010, barring an exogenous event like another 9⁄11.There is simply no deployable technology that has a prayer of keeping a motivated, prepared terrorist out of the system every time — even most times. TSA misses more than 90% of detectable weapons at passenger checkpoints in their own tests, and it is not their fault, because of the limitations of technology and the number of inspections they must conduct. This doesn’t count several classes of completely undetectable weapons like composite knives and liquid explosives.
