TSA forces cancer survivor to show prosthetic breast

[Dennis Hultman]

TSA Bribed by Drug Dealer

 

[Dennis Hultman]

Child rape charge rocks TSA
Logan employee pats down air travelers at scan stations

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1238602

A Transportation Security Agency worker who pats down members of the flying public was charged with multiple child sex crimes targeting an underage girl yesterday.

The bust outraged privacy and passenger advocates who say it justifies their fears about Logan International Airport’s full-body scanner.

 

[Dennis Hultman]

This Week’s TSA Crimes List – Theft, Child P0rn, Possession of a Firearm

Posted on Oct 12, 2011

On Tuesday, TSA screener Eduardo Valdes, 29, was reporting for duty on the secure side of the Miami International airport. As he was passing through an employee security checkpoint, another screener noticed a handgun in his bag. Valdes was taken into custody and later said that he simply forgot that the pistol was in his bag. However, he had neither a permit, a concealed carry license, or a duty to be armed, so why it was [allegedly] in his work bag is a bit baffling… unless the uniform and badge confused him into believing he had actual arrest authority and juris prudence.

And up in Baltimore, another Transportation Security Administration officer is out on bail after he was arrested and charged with child pornography. Michael Scott Wilson, 41, has been suspended from his duties following the arrest. Wilson was charged with possession and distribution of child pornography after agents searched his home.

In yet another case this week, former TSA screening agent Ricky German was convicted on October 6th in Federal Court. German was found guilty of one count of theft, one count of Civil Rights Violation, and one count of Making a False Statement in connection with the theft of a passenger’s $1,200 laptop that was left on the counter. Video surveillance clearly showed German taking the laptop and throwing away identifying paperwork.

 

[Dennis Hultman]

TSA Agent Charged with 6 Counts of Lewd Act with a Child Under 14

Police arrested a TSA agent Wednesday morning at the Elko Area Regional Airport (Nevada), on a warrant charging six counts of lewdness with a child.

The Elko County Sheriff’s Office was notified in July of possible sexual contact between David Ralph Anderson, 61, and a girl younger than 14.

The quality of people that the TSA hires is simply and utterly pathetic. How many Transportation and Security Agents have to be arrested for child rape, lewd acts, sexual assault and more before something is done about the naked body scanners and sexual groping that occurs at airports everyday!?

http://www.truthistreason.net/tsa-agent-charged-with-6-counts-of-lewd-act-with-a-child-under-14

 

[Dennis Hultman]

 

[Dennis Hultman]

 

[WebSlave]

So, how long before they are "authorized" to do random searches of homes?

 

[Wraith]

TSA employee arrested for Manassas sexual assault

Monday - 11/21/2011, 4:07pm ET

WASHINGTON - An employee of the Transportation and Security Administration has been arrested for sexually assaulting a woman in his Manassas neighborhood after flashing his badge and while wearing his uniform.

Prince William County police were called to the 10500 block of Winfield Loop to investigate a sexual assault that had occurred early Sunday morning.

The victim, a 37-year-old woman, told police she and a friend were in their car when they were approached by an unknown man who was wearing a uniform and displayed a badge.

The victim told police she stepped out of the car to speak to the suspect, Harold Glenn Rodman, when he sexually assaulted her.

The woman's friend was in the car, unaware anything had happened, police say.

Rodman fled on foot following the assault.

Police were canvassing the neighborhood when Rodman exited his home in the 10500 block of Winfield Loop. He matched the description provided by the victim.

Rodman, 52, was arrested in connection with the incident.

During an investigation, police discovered Rodman was an employee of the TSA and had been wearing his uniform during the assault.

He has been charged with aggravated sexual battery, object sexual penetration, forcible sodomy and abduction with intent to defile.

http://www.wtop.com/?nid=164&sid=2641881

 

[Dennis Hultman]

85 year old grandmother stripped searched by TSA
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...earch-tsa-agents-jfk-airport-article-1.986198

Lenore Zimmerman, 85, shows injury she says came during strip search by security at JFK Airport.

An 85-year-old Long Island grandmother says she plans to sue the TSA after a humiliating strip search on Tuesday by agents at JFK Airport.

Lenore Zimmerman, who lives in Long Beach, says she was on her way to a 1 p.m. flight to Fort Lauderdale when security whisked her to a private room and took off her clothes.

“I walk with a walker — I really look like a terrorist,” she said sarcastically. “I’m tiny. I weigh 110 pounds, 107 without clothes, and I was strip-searched.”

TSA spokeswoman Lisa Farbstein said a review of closed circuit TV footage from the airport shows “proper procedures were followed.”

But Zimmerman, whose hunched back puts her at 4-foot-11, said her ordeal began after her son, Bruce, drove her to the JetBlue terminal for the Florida flight. She lives in warm Coconut Creek during the winter.

She checked her bags, waited for a wheelchair and parted ways with her doting son — her only immediate relative.

When Zimmerman reached a security checkpoint, she asked if she could forgo the advanced image technology screening equipment, fearing it might interfere with her defibrillator.

She said she normally gets patted down. But this time, she says that two female agents escorted her to a private room and began to remove her clothes.

“I was outraged,” said Zimmerman, a retired receptionist.

As she tried to lift a lightweight walker off her lap, she says, the metal bars banged against her leg and blood trickled from a gash.

“My sock was soaked with blood,” she said. “I was bleeding like a pig.”

She says the TSA agents showed no sympathy, instead pulling down her pants and asking her to raise her arms.

“Why are you doing this?” she said she asked the agents, who did not respond.

The TSA claims the footage does not show any sign of the injury.

“Our screening procedures are conducted in a manner designed to treat all passengers with dignity, respect and courtesy,” Farbstein said.

Zimmerman says a medic arrived to treat her injury. The process took so long that she missed her 1 p.m. flight and had to catch a later one.

Her son said he was shocked when his mom called around 9 p.m. that night and described what happened.

“She was put through a hell of a day,” he said.

Zimmerman, who takes blood thinners, later had a tetanus shot for fear of infection from the walker wound.

Bruce Zimmerman, 53, said he can’t understand why the agents targeted his mom.

“She looks like a sweet, little old lady,” he said. “She’s not a disruptive person or uncooperative.”

 

[Wraith]

Apparently the TSA has decided that they can control your right to free speech too... including what DESIGNS you are allowed to have visible on your personal property.

Teen detained at airport because of "pistol" design on her purse
Saturday - 12/3/2011, 6:26pm ET

WASHINGTON -- Most people know what not to carry in their bag at airport security, but TSA took it a step further recently when it objected to the design on a passenger's bag.

17-year-old Vanessa Gibbs was at Norfolk International Airport recently for a flight home to Jacksonville, Fla. when she was detained by TSA agents because on her purse was the design of a pistol, reports News 4 Jax.

After agents determined the replica was a fake, they told her to check the bag, but the teenager missed her flight due to the security inspection.

The teen told News 4 she had no trouble flying out of Jacksonville, only on her return.

http://www.wtop.com/?nid=41&sid=2656213

 

[WebSlave]

Lots of places I would like to go to, but I WILL NOT fly to any of them. If that sort of violations of my person are required in order to utilize the airlines, then I am just not having any.

This is the sort of thing you would expect if you lived in Nazi Germany or some oppressive communist regime. Why is this sort of crap tolerated here in the USA? Is security actually worth this sort of loss to your freedom and personal dignity?

 

[Dennis Hultman]

3 elderly women say TSA agents made them pull down pants, underwear

http://www.local10.com/news/Elderly...rport/-/1717324/4881644/-/ov0t3e/-/index.html

NEW YORK -

With age come such things as catheters, colostomy bags and adult diapers. Now add another indignity to getting old — having to drop your pants and show these things to a complete stranger.

Two women in their 80s put the Transportation Security Administration on the defensive this week by going public about their embarrassment during screenings in a private room at John F. Kennedy International Airport. One claimed she was forced to lower her pants and underwear in front of an agent so that her back brace could be inspected. Another said agents made her pull down her waistband to show her colostomy bag.

While not confirming some of the details, the TSA said a preliminary review shows officers followed the agency's procedures in both cases. But experts said the potential for such searches will increase as the U.S. population ages and receives prosthetics and other medical devices, some of which cannot go through screening machines.

"You have pacemakers, you have artificial hips, you have artificial knees," said Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee. "As we get older and we keep ourselves together, it's going to take more and more surgery. There's going to be more and more medical improvements, but that can create what appears to be a security issue."

Prosthetic devices can set off metal detectors, and certain devices such as catheters and bags are visible on body scanners, making those passengers candidates for more thorough inspections. Metal detectors and wands can disrupt some devices such as implanted defibrillators, so those passengers must ask for pat-downs instead.

Ruth Sherman, 88, of Sunrise, Fla., said she was mortified when inspectors pulled her aside and asked about the bulge in her pants as she arrived for a flight to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on Nov. 28.

"I said, 'I have a bag here,'" she said on Monday, pointing to the bulge, which is bigger or smaller depending on what she eats. "They didn't understand."

She said they escorted her to another room where two female agents "made me lower my sweatpants, and I was really very humiliated." She said she stood with her arms and legs outstretched, warning the agents not to touch her colostomy bag. Touching the bag can cause pain, she said.

"It's degrading. It's like someone raped you," Sherman said. "They didn't know how to handle a human being."

The next day, agents took 85-year-old Lenore Zimmerman, of Long Beach, N.Y., into a private room to remove her back brace for screening after she decided against going through a scanning machine because of her heart defibrillator. Zimmerman said she had to raise her blouse and lower her pants and underwear for a female TSA agent.

Bruce Zimmerman, her son, said the agents "should've patted her down."

"To have her pants and underpants pulled down is just beyond humiliating," he said Monday. "This is my mother we are talking about."

 

[Helenthereef]

I used to fly across the USA regularly, but now I go to Europe via South Korea - where they still treat people like human beings.....

 

[Helenthereef]

Apparently the TSA has decided that they can control your right to free speech too... including what DESIGNS you are allowed to have visible on your personal property.

http://www.wtop.com/?nid=41&sid=2656213

How about designing a range of invisible (to the naked eye) metallic designs on underwear that read "F*** you" (or something similarly tasteful) to anyone viewing through a scanner?????

 

[Pmsayi]

I avoid flying commercial airlines like the plague. The TSA is a joke and does not keep anybody safe. There is not anyplace I want to visit that I can't get to via land. To any TSA agents reading this take note of this: Should I for any reason ever have to fly with my children and you place your hands on them or try to subject then to any of your invasive procedures; I promise you, even though I know ultimately I will go to jail for it and will be out numbered quickly, I will beat the holy hell out of one or two of you before being taken into custody in a manner that will require medical attention and possibly reconstructive surgery. As a parent I consider it my job to protect my children from any and all harm whether it is legally sanctioned or not to do so. This is not a threat but rather a declaration of intent should this scenario occur.

As far as TSA or any other law enforcement officer attempting to pull over a vehicle in an unmarked car. Citizens are not legally required to pull over for an unmarked car. You are legally required to drop speed and either wait for a marked car to appear or drop speed, call the State Police and request a marked Police car, then pull over when it joins the pursuit. The police often in fact recommend that people not pull over for unmarked cars especially women traveling by themselves.

 

[WebSlave]

I avoid flying commercial airlines like the plague. The TSA is a joke and does not keep anybody safe. There is not anyplace I want to visit that I can't get to via land. To any TSA agents reading this take note of this: Should I for any reason ever have to fly with my children and you place your hands on them or try to subject then to any of your invasive procedures; I promise you, even though I know ultimately I will go to jail for it and will be out numbered quickly, I will beat the holy hell out of one or two of you before being taken into custody in a manner that will require medical attention and possibly reconstructive surgery. As a parent I consider it my job to protect my children from any and all harm whether it is legally sanctioned or not to do so. This is not a threat but rather a declaration of intent should this scenario occur.

 

[Wraith]

Oh boy.. apparently cupcakes are now considered a security threat. geez.

Rebecca Hains, Massachusetts Woman, Says TSA Confiscated Frosted Cupcake

PEABODY, Mass. — A woman who just flew back home from Las Vegas says an airport security officer confiscated her frosted cupcake because he thought the icing on it could be a security risk.

Rebecca Hains said the Transportation Security Administration agent at McCarran International Airport took her cupcake Wednesday, telling her its frosting was enough like a gel to violate TSA restrictions on allowing liquids and gels onto flights to prevent them from being used as explosives. She said the agent told her the frosting was conforming to the jar it was inside.

"I just thought this was terrible logic," Hains said Friday.

Hains, who lives in Peabody, just north of Boston, said the agent didn't seem concerned that the cupcake could actually be explosive, just that it fit some bureaucratic definition about what was prohibited. She said he even offered to let her eat it away from the airport security area.

Hains, a 35-year-old communications professor at Salem State University, said she told the agent she had passed through security at Boston's Logan International Airport earlier in the week with two cupcakes packaged in jars, gifts from a student. But she said the agent told her that just meant TSA in Boston didn't do its job.

The TSA, which is entrusted with protecting the nation's transportation system, was reviewing the situation, agency spokesman Nico Melendez said. Passengers are allowed to take cakes and cupcakes through checkpoints, he said.

Hains ultimately surrendered the cupcake. But she said the situation highlighted a lack of common sense by the agent and the ludicrousness of TSA policies.

"It's not really about the cupcake; I can get another cupcake," she said. "It's about an encroachment on civil liberties. We're just building up a resistance and tolerance to all these things they're doing in the name of security, when it's really theater. It is not keeping us safe."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/23/rebecca-hains-tsa-frosted-cupcake_n_1168508.html

 

[Dennis Hultman]

They get the munches too.

Cerabino: Dessert-toting traveler thinks TSA takes cake

Staff Reporter
Published: Dec 22, 2011

Joe Maltese visited his in-laws in upstate New York this month.

And when the Tequesta man was preparing to fly back home, his mother-in-law put a boxed chocolate cake along with some boxes of Christmas ornaments inside his suitcase.

"I didn't even know the cake was in there until I got home," said Maltese, who is the marketing manager for Home Safe, a Lake Worth-based charity for abused and neglected children.

It was a chocolate cake made by Hannaford, the supermarket chain. But what Maltese noticed most of all was that about a third of the cake was missing.

"It was a clean cut," he said. "And my wife asked me, 'Did you already have a piece of the cake?' "

He didn't. He just figured that his mother-in-law must have sent him part of a cake.

Except that when his wife called her mother, she said she hadn't cut into the store-bought cake before putting it in the suitcase.

That's when Maltese began wondering.

There was also a "Notice of Bag Inspection" form in his suitcase from the U.S. Transportation Security Administration to inform him that the contents of his bag had been checked before his flight from Albany.

"Are times that tough where TSA inspectors have to eat travelers' food?" he asked. "Or did the inspector conduct a taste test to make certain it wasn't contraband or a bomb?"

Maltese went online to see if there was any guidance on the TSA website.

He found a holiday travel advisory that advised passengers not to carry-on snow globes or gift baskets if they have salsa, jams or salad dressings in them.

"You can bring pies and cakes through the security checkpoint," the site said, "but please be advised that they are subject to additional screening."

Additional screening for cakes? So maybe his chocolate cake in his checked bag was really seen as a potential terrorist threat, he thought.

(Note to air travelers: If you plan on transporting TooJay's most popular chocolate cake, you might consider wiping out the words "The Killer" spelled on top of its killer cake.)

Then again, this might not have had anything to do with terrorism.

Two months ago, TSA fired a screener at the Newark, N.J., airport for scribbling a bit of commentary on the inspection form after discovering a sex toy among the belongings inside the luggage of a female traveler.

"Get your freak on girl," the note said.

And last weekend, hip-hop performer Freddie Gibbs, who is known as Gangsta Gibbs, was amused to discover that a TSA screener had written "C'mon son" inside his suitcase, which contained a bag of marijuana.

"The TSA found my weed and let me keep it," Gibbs told his Twitter followers after he landed in Denver.

After I informed TSA about the mystery of Maltese's chocolate cake, an agency official told me that a video record is kept of the screening areas, and the tapes would be reviewed to see if a TSA screener had removed part of the man's cake.

A day later, I received an email back:

"We reviewed the videotape for the entire period of time that the passenger's bag would have gone through the screening process. At no time did we see anything resembling a cake removed from any suitcase. There was a suitcase with boxes, and those boxes were not opened. I can't guarantee that was the passenger's cake, but I want to stress that nobody opened a box with a cake or anything resembling a cake."

I broke the news to Maltese.

"I swear there was a piece missing from that cake," he said.

Does this qualify as a Christmas miracle?

 

[Dennis Hultman]

Congress To Fund Massive Expansion Of TSA Checkpoints
http://www.infowars.com/congress-to-fund-massive-expansion-of-tsa-checkpoints/

Congress is set to give the green light on funding for a massive expansion of TSA checkpoints, with the federal agency already responsible for over 9,000 such checkpoints in the last year amidst increased fears America is turning into a police state following the passage of the ‘indefinite detention’ bill.

The increase in funding has nothing to do with the TSA’s role in airports – this is about creating 12 more VIPR teams to add the federal agency’s 25 units that are already scattered across the country and responsible for manning checkpoints on highways, in bus and train terminals, at sports events and even high school prom nights.

“The TSA’s 25 “viper” teams — for Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response — have run more than 9,300 unannounced checkpoints and other search operations in the last year. Department of Homeland Security officials have asked Congress for funding to add 12 more teams next year,” reports the L.A. Times.

The demand for $24 million in extra funding is in addition to the $110 million spent in fiscal year 2011. The figures are completely independent from the federal agency’s role inside the nation’s airports, which costs taxpayers $5 billion a year.

The extra money is being demanded despite the fact that there is “no proof that the roving viper teams have foiled any terrorist plots or thwarted any major threat to public safety,” according to the L.A. Times report, which also highlights how the TSA’s sniffer dogs are used to single out people for questioning if the dog smells the scent of the owner’s pets on their clothing.

The appearance of thousands more checkpoints on America’s highways and at key transport hubs will only heighten concerns that the country is headed towards a Soviet-style police state.

Such fears were again expressed last week following the passage of the National Authorization Defense Act, a provision of which empowers the government to arrest Americans and hold them in a detention camp with no legal recourse.

With the federal government now seeking contractors to provide staff and supplies for “emergency camps” located around the country, the possibility of innocent Americans being swept up in a dragnet following a declaration of a national emergency has never been more of a threat.

The TSA is being used as a literal occupying army to ensure Americans who travel anywhere are constantly under the scrutiny of Big Brother.

A d v e r t i s e m e n t

Back in October we reported on how Tennessee’s Homeland Security Commissioner announced that a raft of new “security checkpoints” would be in place over the Halloween period to “keep roadways safe for trick-or-treaters”.

Earlier that same month it was announced that Transportation Security Administration officials would be manning highway checkpoints in Tennessee targeting truck drivers.

After public outrage, the TSA attempted to neutralize the controversy by claiming that the inspections were carried out by State Troopers (the TSA agents were there to try to recruit truck drivers into becoming snitches for the ‘See Something, Say Something’ campaign), and that the checkpoints were merely temporary.

In reality, the program was the latest phase of the TSA’s rapidly expanding VIPR program, under which TSA agents have been deployed to shake down Americans at everywhere from bus depots, to ferry terminals, to train stations, in one instance conducting pat downs of passengers, including children, who had already completed their journey when arriving in Savannah.

 

[WebSlave]

Yeah, I guess that with any disruption or questionable articles on your person at an airport, you very well could find yourself subject to indefinite detention with no recourse. I'm sure the TSA will just LOVE having that sort of power.

It's just a matter of time before these checkpoints move onto public highways and at entrances to ALL government buildings. Heck, all it would take is one terrorist incident at a shopping mall, and we'll be seeing check points with pat downs there as well.

This is just getting downright ridiculous. What exactly is the POINT of terrorism? And how could that, whatever it is, be any worse than the steps taken to try to prevent terrorism?