by Michael Maharrey
An invasive TSA pat-down at the Dallas airport left former Miss U.S.A Susie Castillo in tears. She said the search left her feeling violated, and she likened it to molestation.
Castillo made an emotional video shortly after the incident on April 21.
“I’m sure this woman was just doing her job. But she, I mean she actually, felt, touched my vagina,” she said. “And so I think that’s why I’m crying; that’s what I’m so emotional, because I’m already so upset that they’re making me go – making me do this. Making me choose to either get molested, because that’s what I feel like and, or, or, go through this machine that’s completely unhealthy and dangerous. I don’t want to go through it, and here I am crying.”
Ironically, a TSA nullification bill was filed in the Texas legislature last month, a bill that would ban the full body scanners and make it a crime to preform invasive searches. The legislation would make it a criminal offense to:
as part of a search performed to grant access to a publicly accessible building or form of transportation, intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly: (A) searches another person without probable cause to believe the person committed an offense; and (B) touches the anus, sexual organ, or breasts of the other person, including touching through clothing, or touches the other person in a manner that would be offensive to a reasonable person.
But Texas legislators seem more interested in playing politics, merely bouncing the proposed law around committee.
It’s time to take action.
The Fourth Amendment says:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated.
No exceptions. No excuses. No extenuating circumstances.
SHALL NOT BE VIOLATED.
Let’s call this what it was.
A sexual assault.
The fact that the perpetrator wore a badge and acted at the behest of the federal government does not make it OK. In fact, it makes it that much more egregious.
And the state of Texas stood idly by, playing politics because some legislators didn’t like parliamentary maneuvering by the bill’s author, Rep. David Simpson. So they yanked support – took their ball and went home.
In the meantime, Miss U.S.A. had her vagina touched by a stranger in the Dallas airport.
Appalling.
It’s time to take action.
Castillo pleads with her viewers to step up.
“I’m hoping that other people who feel violated as an American will make these complaints and maybe they’ll change something.”
States have the power to challenge this federal overreach. States have the duty to interpose on behalf of their citizens. It’s time for the states to step up.
Texas needs to pass this legislation. Legislators in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire and Hawaii have proposed similar legislation. They need to pass it too. And every other state in the union needs to follow suit.
“Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.” – Frederick Douglass.
How much longer will we quietly submit?
For more information on TSA nullification, click here.
We have to let TSA grope women, children, old people in wheelchairs, etc. The only viable alternative would be to profile likely terrorists on the basis of their gender/nationality/religion. The latter would be much more efficient and effective, but so terribly politically incorrect. No, it is far better to maintain the fiction that terrorists come equally from every possible classification of humanity. This will help to avoid hurting the feelings of the groups that the terrorists generally represent while making liberals feel good about themselves.
mind citing the article and clause of the constitution which allows any of what you mention? any of it.
It's the same Clause that allows TSA agents to grope young women, pat down children and do body searches of old people in wheel chairs. I can tell you're a liberal, your brain is in backwards.
Yes, let's let Muslims blow us up so MichaelBoldin can feel good about himself. What's more important, life or being socially acceptable in airhead circles?
Which clause is that? If you choose to not provide it with your next comment, and instead continue to act like a jerkoff, please do not consider any future comments of yours to be welcome on my website.
America is being turned into the West Bank and Gaza courtesy the dual-nationals who head up the TSA and DHS, and who have done such a wonderful job in turning a whole nation into a prison in the Middle East. If we Americans do not really wake up soon it will be too late.
DHS Scanners To Secretly Search Your Body, Vehicle and Home—X-ray Deaths Next?
Department Homeland Security and Police intend to use hundreds of new X-ray Back Scatter Vans and other scanners with long-distance capability to secretly scan and search lawful persons’ bodies—when driving, walking and X-ray Citizens in their homes. DHS plans to mount X-ray scanners on buildings and utility poles to monitor groups of pedestrians. Citizens that drive or walk to work or lunch in monitored areas may be radiated several times a day.
There is nothing to stop government agencies and police repeatedly targeting (persons of interest) on the street and in their homes with X-ray scans that may cause cancer or induce other medical problems—including individuals afflicted by poor health. DHS new scanning will record eye and facial features of pedestrians, so subjects can be identified for covert X-ray scanning. Consequently some Americans may be X-ray scanned every time they set foot on the street.
How could anyone prove his or her cancer was caused by (accumulated radiation) from repeated government X-ray scans? Can you think of one U.S. Government agency you would trust to limit the number of times and duration secret Government scanners can penetrate a person’s body with X-ray radiation, when walking, driving; inside their home? Citizens driving or walking to work, that must pass DHS X-ray scanners on buildings and utility poles, could be exposed to radiation several times a day. The press recently reported that X-ray scanners now used at airports are 10-times greater that what U.S. Government told the American People.
Currently Citizens can purchase small sensitive radiation detectors on key chains that set off different sounding alarms for each radiation level detected. Key Chain radiation detectors sell for about $160.00 and some appear capable of detecting government X-ray scanners penetrating their home, or their body when walking or vehicle when driving. It should be expected more pedestrians might start carrying radiation key chain detectors to learn if X-ray scanners on buildings and utility poles are targeting their neighborhood, the streets they drive or walk. Radiated pedestrians and drivers should protest, especially if they are being hit everyday with X-ray scanners.
The U.S. can’t become a total Police State until the 4th Amendment is either terminated or so watered down it has no legal effect. That will be the result if government / police are allowed (without probable cause or warrants) to expose the public to covert X-ray scans and scans at airports; train and bus stops and other check points.
One can’t help wonder if today’s outspoken Americans that lawfully defend the Constitution, e.g., writers and bloggers will be deemed combatants by U.S. Government; constantly stopped, searched, and questioned by TSA and police; forced to endure no warrant searches of their car, body and forced cancer causing X-ray scans. The Nazi Military and Police repeatedly searched and delayed Citizens labeled politically undesirable boarding trains and buses and driving to work to cause targeted Citizens to lose their jobs. Citizens were placed on (Nazi do not hire lists) similar to the lists U.S. Homeland Security started in 2010.
See: TSA, DHS plan massive rollout of mobile surveillance vans with long-distance X-ray capability, eye movement tracking and more at: http://www.naturalnews.com/031603_surveillance_po…
I have seen a few of the searches on New shows that have caught them. Notably was a little girl whose was asking that they stop touching her while these agents continued to move there hands up and down the middle of this poor childs legs. While some of you think it is funny and that this girl may have been touched before, this agent was not given permission to touch her private places and this is a crisis and a cause for conern.
My daughter had the same thing happen to her. Why is it they can basically secually assualt her and get away with it. The TSA agent stuck her hands down her pantm both in the front and the back!! She called me crying histerically!! We need to speak out and stop thin atrosity of legalized sexual assualt!!!!!
We NEED to take a serious stand against this TOTALLY EVASIVE ABUSE OF the American people. We DO NOT need this kind of security. ABSOLUTELY REFUSE IT, NO MATTER WHAT.
I'm a former airline pilot and HAVE REFUSE TO LET ANYONE TOUCH ME or go thru the harmful scanner. NO WAY.
Join a group, support the lawsuits and get this stopped.
This is NOT THE PRICE WE ARE WILLING TO PAY FOR SECURITY. PERIOD!
And the TSA Agent had a big smile on his face and stained pants. If Bush had sent in our guys to get bin Laden most of this would be in the past. There would be no reason for a pat down search. The TSA has a job. It is to prevent anyone who is hostile to our people and country from hurting said people. So what happens when a nutcake does make it on board and this would have caught him or her? Boom is the answer. Hey if I can watch a guy in a commercial yell "SWEET" when he hears from his wife got 3 Trojan Viabrators as a gift, then what's her problem. When I hear commercials about drugs with their long list of possible side effects I think the pharmacutical companies have us all pegged as guinny pigs. Oh and how can I forget the 3 month PERIOD tablets. Then also the Vaginal Itch. Erectile Disfunction. Toilet Paper reminences on a bears ass. New chemicals to make woman more touchy feely down there. There's trama in all protective services.
This is absolutely appalling. The TSA needs to be checked in their boots.