The invasive nature of post-9/11 airport security in American has become downright inappropriate, claims Tyner. ABC News reports that all Tyner was trying to do had been hop a flight out of San Diego. Full body scanners that expose genitals to video voyeurs and patdown procedures that amount to sexual groping were on the TSA menu, however John Tyner wasn’t buying any of it. For the trouble of protecting his dignity, John Tyner was shown the door to leave the airport terminal. Post resource – Passenger John Tyner calls TSA patdown sexual assault by Personal Money Store.
’If you touch my junk, I’m going to have you arrested,’ is what had been heard from John Tyner
The airport security screening problems have bothered passengers like John Tyner for a when. You will find more aggressive front hand patdowns as a result of the TSA authorizing it. This has led to numerous claiming sexual molestation or sexual assault has happened including passengers and pilots. On YouTube you are able to watch the TSA security run in that John Tyner recorded with his cell phone video camera for 30 minutes.
The response Tyner gave to the TSA official had been "If you touch my junk, I’m going to have you arrested." As you would guess, it seemed like a very severe threat to the TSA official. An invasive search was something John Tyner wanted to get out of. The video clip had some dialogue in there noteworthy. This is what it was:
TSA Supervisor, in regards to the groin patdown: “If you’re not comfortable with that, we can escort you back out and you don’t have to fly today.”
John Tyner: "OK, I don’t understand how a sexual assault can be made a condition of my flying.”
TSA Supervisor: “This is not considered a sexual assault.”
John Tyner: “It would be if you were not the government. … I’d like only my wife and maybe my doctor to touch me there.”
Opt Out Day gives patdowns to clog the system with
As a protest to Homeland Security and TSA’s policy of using either the Advanced Imaging Technology that strips people naked in a virtual sense or submitting to "enhanced" patdowns, Brian Sodegren and the online group Opt Out Day are encouraging Thanksgiving fliers to take a stand. Opt out of the quick scan option and produce the kind of patdown gridlock that will make the government take notice, suggests Sodegren.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is urging customers to "use some common sense," but evidently the backlash of anger from pilots, flight attendants and passengers like John Tyner has rocked the (air) boat.
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