The Growing GropeGate

Drudge calls it Scans, Hands or Fines, and revolt is growing.

The Administration, TSA and Nappy have knocked down a hornet's nest on this. Pilots refusing to be screened or patted down. Passengers doing the same. Muslims saying their women can only be SELF-patted down and then only the head and neck. And all before the busiest travel holiday.

Hey, daughter #1, if you're reading this when you fly this Christmas remember they cannot vouch for the safety of the full naked body scanners vis-a-vis radiation AND it is a serious invasion of privacy. And the pat downs are no longer just quick and cursory.

Gateway Pundit:

Awful… 3 Year-Old Girl Accosted By TSA Airport Screeners (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Sunday, November 14, 2010, 5:05 AM
OMG– This was horrific.
And, this actually occurred in the United States.
TSA screeners accosted a little 3 year-old coming through the airport.

The poor little girl kept screaming, “Quit touching me!”



Did they really think this little girl was packing a bomb?
Really?

Oceanside Man Ejected from Airport After Telling TSA Agent: “You Touch My Junk & I’m Going to Have You Arrested”
Posted by Jim Hoft on Sunday, November 14, 2010, 10:43 AM

An Oceanside man, John Tyner, was ejected from the San Diego Airport after he refused to allow a TSA agent to “touch his junk.”

Tyner turned his cell phone on to record the assault by the TSA agents at the airport.
You can hear the discussion that proceeded his ejection.
The TSA agent describes the groin check at 3:30 into video.



Sign On San Diego reported:

John Tyner won’t be pheasant hunting in South Dakota with his father-in-law any time soon.

Tyner was simultaneously thrown out of San Diego International Airport on Saturday morning for refusing to submit to a security check and threatened with a civil suit and $10,000 fine if he left.

And he got the whole thing on his cell phone. Well, the audio at least.

The 31-year-old Oceanside software programmer was supposed to leave from Lindbergh Field on Saturday morning and until a TSA agent directed him toward one of the recently installed full-body scanners, Tyner seemed to be on his way.

Tyner balked.

He’d been reading about the scanners and didn’t like them for a number of reasons, ranging from health concerns to “a huge invasion of privacy.” He’d even checked the TSA website which indicated that San Diego did not have the machines, he said in a phone interview Saturday night.

“I was surprised to see them,” said Tyner.

He also did something that may seem odd to some, manipulative to others but fortuitous to plenty of others for whom Tyner is becoming something of a folk hero: Tyner turned on his cell phone’s video camera and placed it atop the luggage he sent through the x-ray machine.

He may not be the first traveler tossed from an airport for security reasons but he could well be the first to have the whole experience captured on his cell phone.

During the next half-hour, his cell phone recorded Tyner refusing to submit to a full body scan, opting for the traditional metal scanner and a basic “pat down” — and then refusing to submit to a “groin check” by a TSA security guard.

He even told the guard, “You touch my junk and I’m going to have you arrested.”