Intolerable Consent

My Very Own TSA Nightmare

My Very Own TSA Nightmare
Posted By Andrew Ian Dodge

So in just five minutes I was told I looked like a notorious porn star by a TSA female employee and then had my scar examined by a man. I was so very pleased to be reminded of the painful and frightening (I had post-op complications including “dying several times”) experience of a few years ago.

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/my-very-own-tsa-nightmare/?print=1

TSA Agents Take Small Child Out of Parents Sight

tsa agents took my son

My son was taken from me by the TSA agents at Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson airport yesterday.

He was taken away from me and OUT OF MY SIGHT because his pacifier clip went off when I carried him through the metal detector.

According to the Transportation Security Administration website, “We will not ask you to do anything that will separate you from your child or children.”

Bull*** TSA.

You took my son. MY SON.

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She told me “Ma’am, we’re trying to be nice to you. We don’t know which one of you went off in the metal detector. Stay here so I can search you.”

“But my son… where is my son?” I asked over and over again.

The female TSA agent called a second female TSA agent over as she began to search me. Apparently the second female TSA agent could hear me protesting and asking for my son.

“Ma’am you need to calm down or I’m going to have to involve the authorities,” she told me.

Now I was pissed.

Horrified. Terrified. Enraged.

“You ****ing get the authorities,” I told the female TSA agent while the other continued to wand me and forced me to unbutton my jeans because the button beeped when she went over my abdomen with her wand.

“You get the ******* authorities right the **** now and tell them to GIVE ME MY SON,” I said.

http://www.mybottlesup.com/2009/10/tsa-agents-took-my-son/

Brian Aitken's Mistake

Brian Aitken's Mistake
By Radley Balko

A New Jersey man gets seven years for being a responsible gun owner.

Sue Aitken called the police because she was worried about her son, Brian. She now lives with the guilt of knowing that her phone call is the reason Brian spent his 27th birthday in a New Jersey prison last month. If the state gets its way, he will be there for the next seven years.

http://reason.com/archives/2010/11/15/brian-aitkens-mistake

Houston man claims TSA pat-down went too far

Local man claims TSA pat-down went too far
Andy Cerota

Mollman was patted down and taken to a body scanner, where he claims a TSA officer inappropriately touched him in what was now his third search.

"I was wearing shorts at the time - between the underwear, right on the skin, all the way around the back, all the way around my front, 360 degrees, touched inappropriately," he said.

Mollman, who by this point is humiliated, says he was never given a reason for the invasive searches and was sent on his way.

"This was an assault. This was no different than a sexual assault," said KTRK Legal Analyst Joel Androphy.

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/local&id=7780727

FIRST, THEY CAME FOR OTHER PEOPLE'S CHILDREN...

FIRST, THEY CAME FOR OTHER PEOPLE'S CHILDREN...

Regular readers know what I think and how I feel about the war on drugs. I think the Fourth Amendment has been systematically violated, and the violations go a lot further than mere illegal searches of drug suspects. They seek legal power to test saliva of all stopped motorists, and they already have power to invade the medical records of millions. Other than crank out these inadequate rants, I can't do much about any of this, as it's part and parcel of the war on drugs.

But fortunately (and I hate using that word in an awful case like this) when an innocent pregnant woman has her baby taken away because she ate a poppy seed bagel, that makes ordinary people ask questions

http://www.classicalvalues.com/archives/2010/11/first_they_came_4.html

Eat a Bagel, Lose Your Baby

Unfortunately for Isabella's parents, Elizabeth Mort and Alex Rodriguez, Jameson sets the cutoff level for its opiate test so low that it can be triggered by poppy seeds, which is why two caseworkers and two Neshannock Township police officers visited their home the day after baby and mother returned from the hospital. LCCYS seized the three-day-old girl and put her in foster care for five days before conceding it had made a mistake.

http://reason.com/blog/2010/11/09/eat-a-bagel-lose-your-baby