$11,000 fine, arrest possible for some who refuse airport scans and pat downs

Passengers who refuse TSA body grope face $11,000 fine
For travelers going through Spokane International Airport - or any Airport - this Holiday Season, the choice is simple.  Either go through a device that allows Security personnel to see your body through your clothing, get felt up and groped, or find another way to your destination. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is warning that any would-be commercial airline passenger who enters an Airport checkpoint and then refuses to undergo the method of inspection designated by TSA ...

TSA Threatens Fines and Arrests for Those Who Refuse a Scan or Pat-down
In the wake of public unrest over its extreme screening procedures, one might expect the federal Transportation Security Administration to ease off, especially with the busiest airline traffic days of the year less than a week off. Instead, the TSA is doubling down on its Big Brotherly tactics. The agency has warned that any passenger who enters an airport checkpoint and refuses to undergo the method of inspection designated by the TSA will not just be denied access to a flight. Such a person ma...

The Audacity of TSA Grope: Airport Passengers Face $11,000 Fines For Refusing to be Groped
Welcome to America, the “home of the free” and the … well it used to be. As reported in the Sun Sentinel , airport travel passengers that if you do not submit to having naked scans or a sexual groping that you will be fined $11,000 and face possible arrest. yes, that is what it has come to. Your rights of Privacy have been taken from you. Sounds like ObamaCare. A note to the TSA, Napolitano and Obama … if this is your answer to Security, the Terrorists have won. If yo...

The latest from the TSA: Fines and arrests for failure to comply at airports
In the wake of public unrest over its extreme screening procedures, one might expect the federal Transportation Security Administration to ease off, especially with the busiest airline traffic days of the year less than a week off. Instead, the TSA is doubling down on its Big Brotherly tactics. The agency has warned that any passenger who enters an airport checkpoint and refuses to undergo the method of inspection designated by the TSA will not just be denied access to a flight. Such a person ma...

TSA Agrees to Exempt Pilots from Scanners & Full-Body 'Rub-Downs' After Rutherford Files Lawsuit
© thepeoplescube TSA Agrees to Exempt Pilots from Scanners & Full-Body 'Rub-Downs' After Rutherford Files Lawsuit Washington, D.C.-- Within days of The Rutherford Institute filing a Fourth Amendment Lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Transportation Security Agency (TSA) over its Security screening procedures for airline pilots, the TSA has announced that it is amending its policy to exempt pilots from having to submit to either full-body scans or enhan...

Bin Laden's airport security victory
Has America gone crazy? Why all the Protests against the “enhanced Security” procedures recently instituted by the TSA? Two groups, OptOutDay.com and WeWontFly.com, are now urging passengers to opt out of electronic full Body scans forcing TSA agents to conduct complete Body pat downs in hopes that the resultant delays on the upcoming Thanksgiving Day holiday (busiest of the year) will so infuriate the public that a change of procedure will be necessary. So just to get this straight...

$11,000 fine, arrest possible for some who refuse airport scans and pat downs
Source: SunSentinel.com $11,000 fine, arrest possible for some who refuse airport scans and pat downs By John Lantigua Palm Beach Post 8:59 a.m. EST, November 20, 2010 If you don't want to pass through an airport scanner that allows security agents to see an image of your naked body or to undergo the alternative, a thorough manual search, you may have to find another way to travel this Holiday Season. The Administration]Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is warning that any would-be commercial air...

Most Prefer Airport Body Scanner to Pat-Down - Rasmussen Reports™
Airports across the country, from Washington, D.C. to Seattle, are beginning to install new full-body Scanners as part of their Security checkpoints. But for Privacy reasons, many Americans oppose the Scanners which show full-body Nude images of the passenger to a screener in another room. In the wake of the latest Terrorist bombing attempt last week, the Department of Homeland Security may soon require full-body pat-downs of all boarding airline passengers if they refuse to go through the ful...

To find the needles, reduce the haystack
More than nine years into our struggle against catastrophic Terrorism, we still don't know how to find the needles in the Civil Aviation haystack. Aviation Security has bedeviled us since 2001, in part because we have reacted to past incidents instead of planning strategically for the future. After 9/11 we banned Box Cutters, scissors and nail clippers; after Richard Reed we started X-raying shoes; after the 2006 London Airliner plot we banned liquids over 3 ounces. And now, after a would-be bom...

Not Standing for Scans: Not Suffering Indignities at Airports
'Pat downs are no longer the simple Search like those in the past. In some instances, as part of an “enhanced patdown,” the TSA screener may use the front of their hands to touch your genitals. Should you feel that you or your child were inappropriately touched, call for a Law Enforcement officer. If presented with the option to leave the checkpoint for a private screening, consider politely declining with a “No, thank you,” as you will likely be asked to remove your clo...

Not Standing for Scans: Not Suffering Indignities at Airports
'Pat downs are no longer the simple Search like those in the past. In some instances, as part of an “enhanced patdown,” the TSA screener may use the front of their hands to touch your genitals. Should you feel that you or your child were inappropriately touched, call for a Law Enforcement officer. If presented with the option to leave the checkpoint for a private screening, consider politely declining with a “No, thank you,” as you will likely be asked to remove your clo...

Who's getting rich selling those see-you-naked TSA body scanners?
As noted in the previous Post, I want to follow the money. Let's start with this article in The Examiner. It lists these "research results": In 2008, former U.S. Department of Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff authored a 38 page report warning of Terrorists exploiting our Security deficiencies - including Air Travel. On Christmas Day 2009, just before the “attempted bombing incident” on board flight 253, there were a total of 40 Body Scanners in use in 19 airports i...

Nader: TSA is delivering naked insecurity
To airline passengers: Get ready for naked insecurity. To the Department of Homeland Security: If you thought this week was bad, brace yourself for a Tsunami of Protests in the days ahead. This month Homeland Security has implemented a new rule calling for extremely invasive pat-downs of commercial airline passengers who decline to use full-body, "backscatter technology" scanners that use low-level X-rays. Pregnant women, parents with young Children, adherents of Religions, amputees and people w...

TSA chief says enhanced pat-downs are 'thorough'
Transportation Security Administrator John. S Pistole told a Congressional Committee Wednesday morning that he and other senior members of the Department of Homeland Security have all experienced the enhanced "pat-downs" recently implemented as an airport screening tool. Pistole was responding to a question from Sen. Byron L. Dorgan (D-N.D.) during Testimony before the Senate Commerce Committee. The panel is holding a TSA Oversight hearing and it is Pistole's first appearance since ...

Report: Napolitano considering Hamas-linked CAIRs demands for Muslim women in airports, including the "self-pat-down"
The Department of Homeland Security needs to clarify its position here without delay. CAIR advised Muslim women in the Press Release quoted here that: "Instead of the pat-down, you can always request to pat down your own scarf, including head and neck area"... Two facts should be self-evident to demonstrate how outrageous this idea is. First, the whole point of being searched by someone else is to find concealed objects. A "self-pat-down" clearly defeats that purpose and is a completely unacc...

Democrats realize they can't blame this on Bush
Democrats may finally be realizing that they will be blamed for TSA's invasive Security screenings and not former President Bush. The underwear bomber happened on their watch, and 'enhanced patdowns' is a new piece of Bureaucracy speak that has just gained currency in the last couple of months. The Democrats have now asked the TSA to reconsider the procedures, at least for the Thanksgiving travel season. In a letter Friday to TSA Administrator John Pistole, Reps. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), cha...

(Video) John Tyner Refuses TSA Groping At Southern California Airport, Is Turned Away From Flight
By Dennis Romero, Mon., Nov. 15 2010 @ 12:27PM TSA gets all up in your T 'n' A -- officially so. ​Almost 10 years after 9/11, you get the feeling Americans are getting sick of Airport Security measures. We reported Monday morning about the L.A. "food stylist" who was kicked off a weekend flight as a result of his "ATOM BOMB" Tattoos. Now comes word that another man, John Tyner, was turned away from a Southern California flight Saturday after he refused the full-Monty groping of U.S. Trans...

TSA Warns: Submit or pay the penalty
Refuse to pass through an airport scanner and let a security agent view your naked body, while you get zapped with radiation or object to having your body sexually assaulted and you may find yourself in deep trouble, so says the Transportation Security Agency (TSA). The TSA has issued a warning that any airline passenger who enters a security checkpoint and refuses to enter the scanner or alternative inspection will not be allowed to fly and will not be permitted to leave the airport. You must r...

Rape Survivor Devastated by TSA Enhanced Pat Down
© CNN An area Wiccan discovered first hand what most of us are still unaware of - many flyers are now being forced to choose between allowing a TSA agent to see them naked or to have their genitals touched and squeezed as part of what the TSA terms "enhanced pat downs." Celeste, a survivor of Rape, described her experience with the new TSA procedures as devastating. Celeste is a seasoned Air traveler. She estimates that she flies upwards of 60 times a year for her job and she knows all t...

DHS: Secretary Napolitano, TSA Administrator Pistole Launch "If You See Something, Say Something" Campaign for General Aviation
Oshkosh, Wis. - Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano and Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Administrator John S. Pistole today launched two major enhancements to general aviation security - the general aviation component of DHS's nationwide "If You See Something, Say Something" campaign, and a streamlined system for vetting passengers and crew on general aviation Aircraft entering and exiting the United States through a single, Department-wide process. "Thi...

Getting X-Rayed at the Airport: Radiation Risk Anyone?
When I was a child growing up in Chicago, a trip to the pediatrician was made tolerable by a cool machine, called a Fluoroscope, in the doc's examination room that allowed my brothers and me to stand in front of it, fully clothed, and get a look at each others' innards. (The ribs were always my favorite). The neighborhood shoe store had its own abbreviated version: we put on the shoes we wanted to buy and stuck our feet in an x-ray machine so my mother could see if we really had enough growing...

$11,000 fine, arrest possible for some who refuse airport scans and pat downs
If you don't want to pass through an Security]Airport Scanner that allows security agents to see an image of your naked Body or to undergo the alternative, a thorough manual search, you may have to find another way to travel this Holiday Season. The Administration]Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is warning that any would-be commercial airline passenger who enters an Security]Airport checkpoint and then refuses to undergo the method of inspection designated by TSA will not be allowed to fly and ...