TSA: Retired Crotch-Grabber Protests Her Crotch-Grabbing
Correction: She apparently got out before the started grabbing crotches (unfortunately, I can't change the entry title without breaking the link).
A former TSA worker was a little upset about her pointless sexual assault in the name of security, went all grabbo on her old supervisor to demonstrate, and got herself arrested. From ABC's Alexis Shaw:
Carol Price, of Bonita Springs, Fla., was traveling on United Airlines from Southwest Florida International Airport in Fort Myers to Cleveland, Ohio on April 20, en route to her brother's funeral in Cincinnati.When she went through security, Price received a pat down that she felt involved "intrusive touching of her genitals and breasts," said her lawyer, John Mills.
According to Mills, Price went over to Kristen Arnberg, her former supervisor, to complain about the pat down. When Arnberg asked what she meant by intrusive, Price demonstrated on her, said Mills.
"She used to be a TSA employee up until 2007, she obviously knows the procedure," said Mills.
According to the police report, Price "did intentionally and without consent grab the victim and slide her hands into the crotch area" of Arnberg.
Mills says that Price and Arnberg did not get along when they worked together.
The police report states that Price "attempted to walk away from the scene" following the altercation, and disregarded a Lee County Port Authority police officer's instructions to stay in the area.
Subsequently, Price was arrested for battery and resisting an officer. She is due in court July 2 on misdemeanor battery charges.
I'm just off deadline and will write about my own groping and mistreatment by TSA thugs in Albuquerque in the next few days.
Oh, and Ms. Price is despicable for herself having once earned living violating the rights and possibly the bodies of her fellow Americans.
Should you encounter her or any other TSA worker, be sure you tell them exactly how despicable they are. You can also print up my op-ed and leave it around the TSA checkpoint and the airport.
People in this country need to wake up to the constant erosion of our civil liberties, and if you don't have it in you to be civilly disobedient at the TSA checkpoint, at least do your best to act like an alarm clock for civil liberties.
Funny how when someone does the exact same type of 'pat-down' thing outside the auspices of the 'security check' it becomes 'battery.'
DrCos at June 20, 2012 3:33 AM
Lots of things suddenly become "legal" when done by government agents in the performance of their duties:
Assault - Security check
Robbery - Taxation
Kidnap - Arrest
etc.
'deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed' is dead. Political power comes from the barrel of a gun, but only when the hand holding it is willing to pull the trigger. Millions of deer hunters aren't.
Scott_K at June 20, 2012 4:07 AM
To paraphrase Ted Nugent
The whole world sucks
We just suck a little less
but under this administration
we're getting closer
Certainly feels like it
G Miler at June 20, 2012 5:33 AM
My favorite part of this story is that she now feels violated after violating so many others. I'd say Karma's a bitch, but that's simplifying too much.
Kristen at June 20, 2012 7:49 AM
In the spirit of fairness - do we know this gal used to be one of the gropers?
I mean, what if all she did was run the baggage x-ray scanner?
Scott Jacobs at June 20, 2012 10:30 AM
Amy Alkon
http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2012/06/20/tsa_retired_cro.html#comment-3238502">comment from Scott JacobsI'm all about the spirit of fairness. She may just be a scumbag who participated in the overall violation of Americans' Fourth Amendment rights for pay, and may not have engaged in any sex part groping. That's why I wrote this underneath the quoted bit from ABC:
Note the words "and possibly the bodies."
I am constantly reason-checking my writing and thinking to try to make sure I'm not making unwarranted claims. If I forget, call me on it -- knowing when I have makes me more careful.
Amy Alkon
at June 20, 2012 10:38 AM
So, there is video of her "attacking" the TSA supervisor.
Is there video of the initial "pat-down?"
John A at June 20, 2012 2:01 PM
Amy Alkon
http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2012/06/20/tsa_retired_cro.html#comment-3238712">comment from John AI looked for it and didn't find it. I'd love to see it, along with video of my own gropings. "Pat-down" is a euphemism to avoid using. It cleanses what they're doing, which is sexually assaulting Americans who fly under the guise of making us more secure.
Anyone with an IQ cresting the speed limit understands that this is not security but a show of it. Anyone smart enough to make it in the comments section here without bursting into tears and crawling under the bed from the debate is smart enough to smuggle anything they want on a plane -- either by bribing one of these french fry cooks employed as "security" people or by bribing restaurant workers and cargo workers to put it on the plane. There are vast holes in airport security that can't be "policed" in visible, theatrical ways that suggest our government is actually doing something to protect us.
Amy Alkon
at June 20, 2012 2:06 PM
"Oh, and Ms. Price is despicable for herself having once earned living violating the rights and possibly the bodies of her fellow Americans."
Is she? She quit in 2007. The pat-down or nude-scan select-your-favorite-unconstitutional-search came into being in 2010. Maybe she quit because she saw what was coming. If I recall correctly, 2007 was when the government made a deal with nudie-scan machine manufacturers. Now there were metal-detectors, shoe-removal, liquids restrictions, and other government intrusions and inconveniences of limited/no efficiency prior to 2010. Was that what you were referring to as "despicable?" If so, I disagree.
AMartel at June 20, 2012 2:46 PM
If its legal for a governemnt employee to do it why isnt it legal for a citizen?
What ever happened to the asian woman they arrested in Phoenix for doing the same thing?
lujlp at June 20, 2012 5:50 PM
Amy Alkon
http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2012/06/20/tsa_retired_cro.html#comment-3238992">comment from lujlpLast I spoke to Jonathan Corbett, who's just printed out his documents to challenge the TSA in the Supreme Court (a massive and expensive endeavor due to the weird size requirements), her case was still underway. I understand that she needs donations. Unfortunately, having excess cash laying around isn't my problem right now. (If it were, I'd donate to people like her, Corbett, Institute for Justice, and to campus civil liberties defender theFIRE.org, which those of you with some spare dollars might consider doing.)
One of the greatest dangers to life as we've known it is the erosion of our civil liberties. People need to look honestly (and not so partisan-ly) at those they vote for. I'm neither a Republican nor a Democrat, but those of you who are should consider whether the people in the party you normally side with are for or against civil liberties. Obama was supposed to be the civil liberties answer to George Bush. Right.
Amy Alkon
at June 20, 2012 6:02 PM
Figured it was time to post this again. It's been several weeks. For all you regular readers of the Goddess' blog you can skip past this post. I'm going to post my regular rant about not needing the TSA. For all you new readers, please read it carefully and refute any statement or misstatement. ;-)
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The TSA was not needed one hour and one minute after Tower II was hit!
The paradigm, the norm, the expected, what everyone was taught to do was to sit down, shut up and wait for the plane to land and the negotiations happen. That was the model from Entebbe onward.
The passengers on board did not really know what was about to happen on September 11, 2001 at 8:46:30 when Flight 11 struck Tower I.
Even the passengers on Flight 175 probably didn't realize what was about to happen when they struck Tower II at 9:03:02.
The Pentagon crash of Flight 77 at 9:37:46 may have been still a matter of ignorance.
At 10:03:11 on September 11, 2001, United Airlines Flight 93 crashed after the brave souls counter-attacked and caused the hijackers to crash the plane.
The time difference is 60 minutes and 9 seconds from Tower II being struck to the crash of Flight 93. The shoe bomber and panty bomber were taken down by fellow passengers as well. Recently, JetBlue's Flight 191 pilot was taken down by the passengers once he was out of the cockpit. Additionally how many times have you heard of passengers' concerns and diverted flights?
The TSA is and has always been a joke, no make that a total stupidity, that has wasted our country's fortune going down a rabbit hole.
If you don't believe me look at the 9/11 timeline.
There will never be another 9/11 style attack unless the attackers can arrange planes full of geriatrics, and even then it would be doubtful.
Jim P. at June 20, 2012 7:43 PM
But according to the ABC report Amy quotes:
"She used to be a TSA employee up until 2007, she obviously knows the procedure," said Mills.
That means she left three years before the gropes were implemented. So she's not a "retired crotch-grabber."
Lisa Simeone at June 21, 2012 7:17 AM
Amy Alkon
http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2012/06/20/tsa_retired_cro.html#comment-3239585">comment from Lisa SimeoneI stand corrected.
Amy Alkon
at June 21, 2012 7:19 AM
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