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
Squeeky learnt me new word.
Thx! Srsly.
It’s a keeper.
@Ingannie
Come on, Ingannie. I answered your question, now you answer mine and Pogo’s. That is only fair! You don’t want to be “unfair”, do you???
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1071634/
In a word Paul, yes. It is abnormal.
Inga – do you even read what you link? It is not listed by anybody as anything. The author just thinks it should be.
Paul, maybe bigotry is one of Obama’s 57 states.
” bigotry is one of the most base psychological states”
Ha. Well, I’m all about dat base. No treble.
@Pogo
I have noticed that, too. As the loss of the argument comes closer, she “decathects” as a defense mechanism. You see this a lot when somebody is dying over a period of time, and the people around them start to emotionally disconnect from them.
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Happy Pogo probably bases his world view on Leviticus, he doesn’t seem to care about the DSM. Coming from a MD that is truly concerning.
Inga
It’s the law. So I have nothing else. He calls me you because he is trying to make us mad because he is arrogant and thinks he is more intelligent than us Inga.
Pogo, bigotry is one of the most base psychological states.
Inga – can you prove that bigotry is a psychology state? Much less the most base? Now, given your inability to answer direct questions, I will take this as a no.
“happypappies
Pogo I am going to go Psychological here and say the DSM-3 defines Homosexuality as normal behavior and not perverted however Pedophilia will always be a crime according to their bylaws.”
The DSM used to define homosexuality as abnormal, ‘a mental disorder,’ according to their bylaws.
So what?
My half blind guy was at the airport and some TSA guy grabbed a guys crotch and then the guy reached in and pulled out a huge dog bone. “Here, you want a boner?” the guy said. The TSA agent blushed and said “Next!” My half blind guy was next so I intervened and butted in front. I barked at the perp and he let us both pass. This happened in Tampa.
@Squeeky
She works her way down from the more complex logical fallacies to the baser ones as the thread progresses.
Because Squeeky, homophobia is IRRATIONAL.
So Squeeky you would vote for her because you have HOPE she doesn’t mean what she says and is a secret conservative, lol. Oy.
@Ingannie
You said, “Pogo your bigotry is disgusting.”
Oh, come on! More ad hominem attacks??? Why don’t you cut that silly crap out, and start engaging in rational discussions. You can do better than that!
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Pogo your bigotry is disgusting.
Yes indeed Paul, that is true, hospitals too. Healthcare workers are held to a higher standard than cops and would stand to lose their liscence over such abuse.
@Inagannie
Sure I have, Ingannie. I am for her because I think she is much more conservative than other Democrats, and she is a woman. Women can change their minds with much less flak than men. Plus, I don’t believe that she believes all the crap she says. She looks at the polls, and says the stuff that is popular at the moment, which is morally bad, but politically smart. Plus, I am more progressive on economic issues.
That being said, right now I am very disturbed by the whole email thing. I am still supporting her, and don’t expect the Republicans to run anybody with a functioning brain. However, if by some strange chance, Donald Trump or Carly Fiorina run, then I may change my mind!
Now, it’s YOUR turn! Please answer mine and Pogo’s questions!
Thank you in advance!
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
“that you continue to cling to past DSM criteria for normative sexual orientations is a bit frightening. ”
Inga, your use of the straw man argument is tiresome.
” The common law has for centuries treated the unwanted touching of another person as a battery”
And gay sex was illegal too.
So what?
“Norms and traditions are neither random nor rigid. They are dynamic processes.”
I see, so the unwanted touchers will just have to wait until the dynamic changes finally accept them.
Until then, they’re just perverts, just like gays used to be.
Good to know.
In any case, the ‘norms and traditions’ have been subverted, not changed ‘dynamically.’
Gay marriage was instituted by judicial fiat, over-riding the popular vote.
So these have been ‘dynamic’ changes to tradition in the same way strangling is a ‘dynamic’ change to breathing.
Norms and traditions don’t change in the matter of 10-20 years, as has occurred here. Never have, except after a cataclysm such as war or mass starvation; even then they have been difficult to upend.
Your use of ‘norms and traditions’ is risible here.
Pogo:
I directly answered your question. The common law has for centuries treated the unwanted touching of another person as a battery, exposing the batterer to both civil and criminal liability. The right involved is integrity of the person, which may not be violated without consent. I would think you would know that.
Norms and traditions are neither random nor rigid. They are dynamic processes. I would think you would know that as well.
Pogo, as a person of science an MD, that you continue to cling to past DSM criteria for normative sexual orientations is a bit frightening. Do you refuse to read and consider medical publications on new treatments for the known human medical conditions too?