By Anny Jacoby
"There are other options of travel, drive, take a train or a bus."
"I would rather go through these procedures than be blown up in a plane, if it means safer flights then I have no problem with either procedure."
I am personally so sick and tired of individuals responding to the valid objections of the recent new TSA screening that includes full body scanners and enhanced pat-downs. Believe me I am all for Homeland Security and our safety is of the utmost importance; however, TSA Screeners are MISSING weapons in carry-on luggage as reported by Brian Ross with ABC News! Isn't there something wrong with this picture?
Pamela provided an excellent piece on this subject yesterday which I personally agree with. Pamela made extremely valid points in her post.
Our choice and Fourth Amendment rights (The Fourth Amendment Amendment IV to the United States Constitution is the part of the Bill of Rights which guards against unreasonable searches and seizures.) have infact been striped away from us. What's next?
TSA pat-downs can be traumatizing and "re-traumatizing". Even John Pistole, the TSA administrator acknowledged in last week's Senate hearings that when he received one, he found it "more invasive than I'm used to." Mr. Pistole has no idea what invasive is until you've been sexually violated.
Reminder of Definition of Sexual Assault:
A sexual assault occurs when someone touches any part of another person's body in a sexual way, even through clothes, without that person's consent.
You can fight back with following explicit instructions. You have rights and by "fighting back" I am referring to via the Police Departments and Sexual Assault Investigators/Detectives within the police departments, FBI and the media.
Get to the airport early.
First, calmly and respectfully tell the TSA Screener that you are objecting to the invasive body search even though you are not being given a choice to either refuse it or leave the airport.
This means that you are being forced against your will to submit. If they tell you that you must submit, then it is like a man putting a knife to your throat and giving you no choice. You are forced either way.
Make sure your verbal objections are heard and let the "pat-down" be done out in the open where it can be seen. Be sure that you obtain the TSA Screener's name mentally during the "enhanced pat-down". Make absolute sure to pay attention to the private areas of the body that have been touched for reporting. After they are done assaulting you, your wife, your husband, your girlfriend, your boyfriend, daughter or son do the following:
Step away from the screening area, take a deep breath and dial 911 from your cell phone and report being sexually assaulted. Give the 911 dispatcher your name and location. By calling 911, the call gets sent out to whatever the city's central emergency dispatch location is. Also by placing this call the call goes around the TSA and the Airport Police and gets recorded and logged for records. This means that the police have to treat it like any other sex assault and cannot just blow you off. 911 call frequencies are also monitored by every large city's TV News Stations! Sex Crimes Detectives will be notified.
You can call 911 as the assault is happening, just make sure that the call gets through and you give a good description to the dispatcher.
Give the 911 dispatcher your name, (if you are calling for someone else, the victim's name) and a description of the TSA Screener as well as the Airport and security checkpoint and/or the gate location. When the police arrive, fill out a statement, demand to speak to a Sex Crimes Detective and file charges.
Another option when you travel, have a friend or relative get a Gate Pass from the Airline and go through security with you. Again, tell the TSA Screener to do the enhanced pat-down out in the open. After or as they are assaulting you, your friend or relative can dial 911 and report a sexual assault in progress.
If you have been assaulted recently but you did not call the Police, please Google the Police Department of the city of the airport that you were assaulted at by the TSA. Then ask to speak to the Sex Crimes Detectives Unit and file reports, demand to press charges to initiate an investigation. If you are back home in another city, make a statement to your local Police Department's Sex Crimes Unit and they can fax it to the Police Department of the city in which the assault occurred.
We must be pro-active as well as educated as to how to file sexual assault charges against the TSA screeners if you feel that you have been sexually assaulted. Listen to the media interview below with Erin Chase from Dayton, Ohio who has pressed charges against the TSA agent for sexual assault.
After you have filed your report wait and watch. If the police move fast you don't want to do anything to jeopardize the investigation. The media may get wind of the assault through sources that they have at the police departments.
Once you get to your destination go online and obtain the TV News station website of the city that you were assaulted in. Remember, keep tabs on the investigation. Consider sending an anonymous news tip about the charges to their News Tip email department. If you wish to give your name as Erin did do so. With or without your name, don't be afraid to tip off the media if it is necessary; the more they report on passengers filing Sexual Assault charges against TSA screener's the worse it is for the TSA and the better for passengers.
If your child has been assaulted do the same exact thing or call 911 as it is happening and report a sexual assault of a minor or child in progress. Follow the above directions.
The city police department must get involved and so will the media when they hear the 911 call. The 911 emergency call can make so much difference for your case.
It is my understanding that this is the best, cheapest and most effective way to fight back. As long as they forcefully grope vaginal, breast and groin areas (which the TSA Screener's are doing), and are forcing you to stay or face a financial penalty (which they are), you can legally file a sexual assault complaint and make that 911 call. If this is done enough perhaps the police and the FBI will be forced into action.
Keep in mind, city Police Departments over the years have arrested TSA Screener's for theft committed while searching passenger's belongings - they can obviously do the same for a sex crime - which the "enhanced" pat-downs clearly are.
Even if the TSA Assailants do not go to trial, they will still have a Sex Crimes related ARREST or investigation on their record for life!
Police Departments have to investigate every reported Sex Crime that takes place in their city and airports themselves as part of the city and local governments. Calling your Congressmen AFTER you've reported the assault wouldn't hurt either.
Anny Jacoby is the President of The Realistic Female Self-Defense Company
Certified Instructor
in the S.P.E.A.R. system.
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This is cruel to the TSA Agent that is doing their job. You're going to give someone a sexual assault charge for the rest of their life when they were only doing their job? That's sick.
ReplyDeleteThanks Anny! Not only did you state the problem well, you provided some practical advice.
ReplyDeleteI was especially impressed by your quote
"I would rather go through these procedures than be blown up in a plane, if it means safer flights then I have no problem with either procedure." It brings to mind another quote from Patrick Henry's "Liberty or Death" speech.
"Is life so dear or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, almighty God!"
I think when someone makes that "safer flights" comment, he or she needs to say to a grandchild what this truly means: "I'm willing to forfeit your freedom forever by shredding the Bill of Rights, just so I can get a false feeling of safety when I fly."
I agree that we're talking about the ivory-tower TSA policymakers, and it's unfortunate that individual employees must face the consequences for carrying out these policies, but in my opinion the Nuremberg Defense didn't hold up in war crime trial and it doesn't hold up here.
Excellent post, Anny!
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ReplyDeleteThis is cruel to the TSA Agent that is doing their job. You're going to give someone a sexual assault charge for the rest of their life when they were only doing their job? That's sick."
except that these people who are just doing their job are doing something illegal and are not protesting it themselves. They actually sound a lot like Nazi solders who were just doing their jobs. When you blindly follow orders then you are just as bad as the Government that is giving those orders.
@Anonymous Thats the point the TSA cant commit sexual assault if they are never hired. Do work for TSA and don't respect the people who do.
ReplyDeleteIf it is wrong for anyone, it is wrong for everyone.
ReplyDeleteThere was a time in this country when real men would not have stood idly by and watched their families be sexually assaulted at the hands of government employees. Today, that is not the case as weak, effeminate men stand by and watch without protest or intervention as their families are assaulted in the name of "security". This is how the Jews were marched into the ovens at Dachau and other sites during the Holocaust, without protest.
ReplyDeleteIt is acceptable and encouraged that a TSA government employee can do something to an American citizen that US military personnel cannot do to a member of the Taliban. Doesn't make sense to me.
ReplyDeleteAnd, why would any TSA employee perform illegal acts upon innocent civilians? TSA employees should take a stance and be heard if infact they have an issue or problem with what is being asked of them. Wouldn't you? Toss Up: Legal vs Illegal - not a real hard choice one would think.
Even before these "enhanced" pat-downs , i.e. government sponsored sexual assault, what the TSA did made no logical sense. What TSA does makes about as much sense as molesting and patting down all the women and young girls in a neighborhood to protect them from rapists trying to infiltrate the area where they live since rapists are typically males. And many are predominantly white males ages 18-45. Take a step back and see how this scenario is comparable to how TSA does Airport "Security."
ReplyDeleteThe established profile of a terrorist is a Military Aged Muslim-Middle Eastern or Central Asian male. Of all the airplane hijacking ever done from the 70s to 9-11, they were perpetrated by Military Aged Muslim males-with one Arab Female involved for a while-Leila Khalid. Not one of them was an American Citizen! Period! As for these TSA employees just "doing their jobs", that excuse stops being fine when they are committing a heinous, criminal act on their fellow citizens. Anyone who makes excuses for them doing this is either a pedophile themselves or truly sick.
As a former U.S. Marine Grunt, I can assure you that if these TSA thugs did this to my Mother or Girlfriend, then they better pray to God that all I do is just call 911 and file sexual assault charges against them! If TSA had kept this B.S. going, they'd eventually molest the female loved one of someone like me or the other true Warriors I've served alongside of. They would have regretted that.