How Come It's Called "Sexual Assault" Until You Get To The Airport?
Lisa Simeone spotted stories in her local paper of a series of sexual assaults -- women being grabbed and groped while walking or running alone on bucolic paths in a suburb between D.C. and Baltimore called Columbia.
Lisa writes at TSA News Blog:
The police and the newspaper explicitly use the terms "groped" and "sexual assault." I can't help but wonder why behavior in one place constitutes sexual assault but the same behavior in another place doesn't. Obviously I'm talking about the airport.The TSA routinely grabs and gropes people. Yet those of us who accurately and correctly describe that behavior as sexual assault -- and we have documented thousands of accounts of it -- are dismissed and ridiculed. "What's the big deal?" the naysayers sneer. "So somebody's touching your body. So what? They're not hurting you. Get over it!"
Perhaps we should tell those four women in Columbia the same thing.
TSA doesn't count as assault because they are wearing uniforms...like the Nazis. This way we train our children that a person with a uniform and a fake badge can do anything they want to you while we stand by and watch. The best part is the TSA is proven on almost a daily basis to be hiring thieves, pedophiles and all our crazies.
Andrea Frymire at September 12, 2013 12:17 PM
You'll be pleased to know it's apparently our own fault for the gropensearches:
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/09/12/1757243/former-dhs-official-blames-privacy-advocates-for-tsas-aggressive-procedures
If we had only let the TSA NSA/STASI their way through our private information, they wouldn't need to search us at the airport.
jerry at September 12, 2013 1:16 PM
Amy Alkon
https://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2013/09/how-come-its-ca.html#comment-3909826">comment from Andrea FrymireAndrea gets it!
Amy Alkon
at September 12, 2013 1:49 PM
Andrea nailed it.
Ken R at September 12, 2013 3:02 PM
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