Two Transportation Security Administration screeners at Denver International airport have been fired after investigators found that a male TSA employee would select handsome men that he wanted to fondle as part of a secondary patdown. Before you give the TSA much credit however you may want to read on.
Accordingly to the reports, the unnamed male TSA screener told a female screen that he liked to grope the genitals of male passengers and that he would alert another screener that the man was a female to cause the scanning machine to indicate an anomaly in the genital area. He would then do a secondary screening and grope the passenger. This appears to have occurred roughly a dozen times.
In December 2013, Jamelyn Steenhoek filed a complaint against TSA screeners at the airport saying the frisking she received at the same Denver airport amounted to a sexual assault, particularly the fondling of her breasts. No charges were filed.
Now here is the rub, both literally and figuratively. The TSA was given an anonymous tip of an employee who was groping passengers for sexual pleasure on Nov. 18, 2014. The tip came from another TSA employee. Yet, it took nearly three months for TSA act. It just left this man in a position to sexually assault passengers.
It is also unclear why this is not a crime. There was no basis for fondling the genitals of these passengers but the TSA employee is not named let alone charged. Presumably, a man walking through the airport fondling people would have faced a bit more of a penalty than just being led out of the airport.
Source: CBS
Pogo:
Your last several comments are nonsensical, literally. An unlawful touching is a battery. An unlawful sexual touching is a sexual battery. Sexual battery by a homosexual does not support the view that homosexuality is a perversion any more than sexual battery by a heterosexual would support the view that heterosexuality is a perversion. Furthermore, there are many people who regard the moving of goalposts to be a function of knowledge. That you are not one of them is clear, but immaterial. Traditions still codify behaviors, but traditions also evolve.
Do we really need to add the descriptive term to each and every pervert?
Sure. Why not?
We label everyone and everything else all the time…..especially when it fits into the desired meme or mantra of the day. Democrat. Republican. Black. White. Hispanic.Asian. Conservative. Liberal. Fundamentalist. Southerner. Frat boy. etc etc etc.
Except of course when the label destroys the meme …..then we HIDE the labels.
Can’t have it both ways.
Pogo, because homosexuals are human. Unwanted touching is generally repulsive to most human beings. Quit trying to ostracize homosexuals from the human race Pogo.
Inga, to keep using that word.
However, you told me you cannot define it.
I would then have to include that for you, ‘pervert’ really means nothing at all, like saying ‘shazzbot,’ or else you are hypocrite.
*He isn’t a pervert JUST BECAUSE he’s a homosexual.*
No Inga, I do not presume to know.
I am asking how you know.
Paul. Duh. Precisely my point. He isn’t a pervert BECAUSE he’s a homosexual. Perverts can be MDs, Catholic, or Italian, or German, or freckled, or tall, or short fat and bald. Do we really need to add the descriptive term to each and every pervert? Some perverts come from Arizona. An Arizonian pervert, ok?
Inga – so, if I have your thinking correctly, he was born a pervert and then became a homosexual.
Pogo, are you trying to say homosexual men wouldn’t consider his groping as an assault, when heterosexual men would? Wow.
“I would posit that homosexual men would find this pervert’s groping to be a sexual assault.”
Why would you presume that?
Is there a poll you used?
“…turning themselves inside out to label homosexuality as a perversion, but most of society has rejected that. Time marches on…”
That’s my point.
And now you’re calling something a ‘perversion.’
Since time marches on, what gives you the right to call people who self-identify as desiring ‘ unwanted contact’ anything other than simply another one of the endless alternative lifestyles?
You are being a hypocrite.
Once you stop allowing tradition to codify behaviors, you cannot then move the stake and say “not that border, but here; this line shall not be crossed.”
Justice Scalia’s dissent in Lawrence presciently predicted that the relentless moving of goalposts would occur, and it has.
Paul, his sexual orientation has nothing to do with him being a pervert. I understand that some here are turning themselves inside out to label homosexuality as a perversion, but most of society has rejected that. Time marches on, some will get left behind as relics of the bad old days.
Inga – perverts are perverts. However, you can be a homosexual pervert as well as a heterosexual pervert.
@DBQ
I presume that “Master” will have written out the cake order (chocolate???) on a piece of paper, and stuck it where the sun don’t shine. . . 🙂
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I would posit that homosexual men would find this pervert’s groping to be a sexual assault. It has nothing whatsoever to do with being gay or not. It’s unwanted contact.
“Don’t hold your breath Pogo. ”
Just as I thought.
So you use the word ‘pervert,’ but cannot defend its use, much less define it.
I will assume then that you won’t mind if I use it about you or Max, much as it is, by your own post, a word devoid of meaning.
“… has nothing to do with homosexuality”
Except for the part that has to do with homosexual behavior.
Otherwise, nothing at all.
The TSA does same-sex groping because of a presumed norm, mostly based on the idea that most women don’t want heterosexual men groping them.
But this is outmoded, based as it is on cis-gender heteronormative hating hatery.
This case is proof.
A gay guy groped men using his TSA badge to gain access.
There is no norm that should permit same-sex groping.
My first post was to put out there the idea that hetero men objecting to being groped by a leering gay guy (and there was evidence he was leering) would be put forth as ‘homophobic,’ which Max rapidly confirmed.
Don’t hold your breath Pogo. This article has nothing to do with homosexuality and I won’t entertain your attempts to make it the focus of this discussion. If you are unclear regarding the definition of pervert, ask Karen, I’m sure you’ll accept her definition.
Inga – no heterosexual TSA agent is going to run around fondling the genitalia of male passengers. The TSA agent in question is gay.
I don’t think you’ll find a safe definition in any of your usual haunts.
I am waiting, Inga.
On a fundamental level, this case has nothing to do with homosexuality. The actions of the TSA agents constitute sexual assault and battery. They should be prosecuted accordingly.
We wouldn’t want Christian bakers to discriminate against people crawling around on all fours with a ball gag in their mouth, would we???
How are they going to be able to order a cake? Mumble mmmmmbumle……..I guess they could write it out.
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