Posted on Apr 15, 2015
Sexual assault by the TSA: Is this an isolated incident or the result of a cultural flaw?
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Please take a minute to read this article in the Atlantic, then vote in the Survey and provide your comments.
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2015/04/where-did-the-tsa-agent-touch-you/390561/
Is this a cultural problem? How could the investigation be better executed? Why did it take so long to investigate? Why are names of people fired for cause being withheld? How could an organization with access to such strict record keeping fail to notify at least the individual groped while an investigator watched?
Far more importantly: does a blanket search of every person intending to board a plane represent a violation of the 4th amendment protection to be secure in your papers and person?
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2015/04/where-did-the-tsa-agent-touch-you/390561/
Is this a cultural problem? How could the investigation be better executed? Why did it take so long to investigate? Why are names of people fired for cause being withheld? How could an organization with access to such strict record keeping fail to notify at least the individual groped while an investigator watched?
Far more importantly: does a blanket search of every person intending to board a plane represent a violation of the 4th amendment protection to be secure in your papers and person?
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We need to trash Homeland Security and return to basic governmental services (as enumerated in the Constitution). If there is a threat to air travel, allow the airlines to handle it. They can hire experts from El Al and learn how to do it
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Capt Richard I P.
CPT Jack Durish Well put! I agree that the TSA is uniquely and inherently flawed from its foundation.
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When I first heard this story - and when I heard the recent similar Secret Service story - I thought that it's not just the military that has a problem with sexual assault and sexual harassment. It's a problem (a part) of the human condition, and it will probably never go away, at least not as long as people have sex drives, which often overpower their ability to reason and act reasonably.
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Capt Richard I P.
CW5 (Join to see) I think that's a fair argument, what do you think about how the investigation was conducted and the other questions? The 4th amendment issue?
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Was it finally discovered and reported after a different man went through the security screening 20 times in the same day and made everyone miss their flight? As Cleveland Brown says, "That's just nasty." I hope they charge him with 1,000 counts of whatever offense this is considered and he can see how it feels from behind bars.
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