Know The TSA "Officers" Groping Your Children
Via @mpetrie98, here's one -- David Ralph Anderson, 61, arrested on a warrant charging six counts of lewdness with a child (a girl younger than 14, the piece says). Via the Elko Daily Free Press, Jared DuBach writes:
According to Elko Justice Court records, the victim told investigators that on seven to 10 occasions between 2010 and this year, Anderson allegedly taught the victim about various sexual acts and had sexual contact in the form of touching each other's genitals.Investigators reported Anderson also told the girl to sleep in his bed and taught her to say various vulgar words associated with body parts and sexual activities.
In addition, the girl stated he would rub lotion all over her body, placed his hand up her shirt to touch her breasts, had her watch pornographic films with him, encouraged her to consume alcohol and would French kiss her.
A friend who's a police officer texted me about the sex part touching of the TSA body gropes, bringing up a good point: "If it doesn't qualify as sexual battery, why don't men search women?"
This makes me want to vomit. I'd say I'm cancelling our flights to orlando in Jan, but I'm not. I'm simply going to stand up to these lawbreaking thugs, and if I go to jail I go to jail. If enough people did, this would change.
momof4 at August 29, 2011 7:42 AM
momof4,
Imagine if Anderson's victim had said, "I'll keep sleeping in his comfy bed, but if he tries to get me to touch his penis again, I'll stand up to him, and if I go to jail I go to jail."
With all due respect, "if they try to grope my children I'll stand up to them" is neither an effective form of protest if you want to make a change, nor a courageous position to take.
Odds are that nobody will try to grope your children, and you'll be just another passenger like all the others, indistinguishable from those who don't know about TSA's abuses and those who don't care. For helping keep the TSA in business, I do not applaud you.
The only thing that will force change is many more people deciding that taking the kiddos to Disneyworld is not worth supporting the only players with the clout to put a leash on TSA: the airlines. Put the squeeze on the airlines, and they put the squeeze on Congress.
So. You're not cancelling your flights to Orlando in January because…?
Mark Bennett at August 29, 2011 8:38 AM
"You're not cancelling your flights to Orlando in January because…?"
I was clear in my first post. Obviously plenty of people are still flying, the airlines will not be taking a big enough hit to bother with, because so many people fly for business. So. This will end when nice middle class people are shown on TV being led off in handcuffs for refusing to let a child molester touch their kids. This is the TV/public opinion age.
momof4 at August 29, 2011 12:06 PM
There's a big flaw in your plan Mark. There's almost no profit margin on transporting a passenger and their luggage. Ferrying people is like treading water, it keeps you above the water line for a little while. But the actual profit comes from selling advertisements and fuel hedge funds. And if an airline loses enough passengers to make an impact they'll probably take a good hard look at becoming cargo transports instead of spending money to lobby for changes to the DHS.
Elle at August 29, 2011 1:48 PM
This is a weak post. Any organization can have pervs. Schools and police departments and the Catholic Church (and probably Islam) have many, for example.
And who aspires to be a proctologist? I mean, seriously, we should be happy we have some pervs. Who else would do this work?
Or, as my proctologist says, "Yes, who would do this "work?"
BOTU at August 29, 2011 3:11 PM
momof4, I have no idea what your "first post" was. You have a blog? Because if you have any posts (as opposed to comments, like this one) anywhere, I'd be happy to read them.
Elle, I don't think you're right about airlines making their profit by "selling advertisements and fuel hedge funds." Fuel hedging is a way of managing the risk of rising fuel prices; admittedly, I haven't flown in about a year, but other than SkyMall and the airline's seatback pocket magazine I can't think of any advertising the airline was selling. If there is any advertising revenue, though, fewer passengers would mean less revenue.
Airlines are not very profitable—one or two percent per year in the best of times. But once they have a plane flying from point A to point B, the cost of putting another passenger on that plane is minimal. So every passenger who decides not to fly costs the airline very close to the full airfare that he would otherwise have spent—a significant difference, given the already-thin profit margins. If Americans were a little less self-centered and a little more disciplined, we could easily get the airlines' attention.
If we got their attention this way, would airlines just throw up their hands and abandon the passenger segment in favor of air cargo? Not likely. All of the dollars are already being squeezed out of air cargo.
BOTU, because a major complaint we have against TSA is its treatment of our children—treatment that, coming from a cop or a teacher or a cleric, would constitute sexual battery—more than once I've seen TSA supporters ask, "show me one child-molester hired by TSA." While Mr. Anderson is presumed innocent, his case is instructive.
Who else would do this work? If the work were worth doing, the question would be worth answering.
Mark Bennett at August 30, 2011 3:41 PM
Show me one child molester hired by TSA?
First show me one child caught smuggling a bomb onto an airliner by hiding a bomb in their tiny little underwear. Or one little old lady with a bomb in her Depends. Or one bottle of explosive breast milk for a nursing infant.
Walt at August 30, 2011 5:29 PM
"There's almost no profit margin on transporting a passenger and their luggage. "
Baggage Fees Bring Airlines Big Profits
http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/finance/2011/June/Baggage-Fees-Bring-Airlines-Big-Profits/
I'd post the other ones but I don't want to link-bomb the blog!
Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at August 31, 2011 3:03 PM
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