John Tyner Refuses To Be Sexually Attacked By TSA
The invasive nature of post-9/11 airport security in American has become downright inappropriate, states Tyner. ABC News accounts that all Tyner had been trying to do had been hop a airline flight out of San Diego. No full body scanner that exposed his genitals on a video screen or advanced patdown had been acceptable to him that day, but Transportation Security Administration pressed its advantage. Thus, he had been summarily ejected from the airport terminal.
‘If you touch my junk, I’m going to have you arrested,’ John Tyner exclaimed
John Tyner is just one of the many passengers annoyed with airport security screenings. They take so long to get through. Now that TSA has authorized more aggressive patdown procedures with the front of the hand, both passengers and pilots are equating the practice to sexual molestation or sexual assault. John Tyner recorded his 30-minute ordeal with TSA security via a cell phone video camera, and now it’s a hit on YouTube. The reaction Tyner gave to the TSA official was “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. John Tyner didn’t want to be searched at all. An invasive search seemed even worse to him. This was the dialogue on part of the video:
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.”
A ton of patdowns happening with Opt Out Day
The Opt Out Day is an online group that has Brian Sodegren in it that asks fliers to take a stand when flying for Thanksgiving in order to protest what Homeland Security and TSA have chosen to do with making an option of either having an “enhanced” patdown or going via the Advanced Imaging Technology that strips people naked virtually. Opt out of the quick scan option and produce the kind of patdown gridlock that will make the federal 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.
