TSA Agent Threatens Woman with Defamation, Demands $500k for Calling Intrusive Search ‘Rape’
September 9th, 2011Via: TechDirt:
Amy Alkon is an advice columnist and blogger who is just one of many people who has had a horrifying and traumatizing experience going through airport security lately. After being pulled aside for an “enhanced” search, she found the process to be so invasive and so in violation of her own rights that she was left sobbing. She wrote about the experience on her blog, noting that she didn’t think the search was just “invasive” in the emotional sense, but flat out physically invasive:
Nearing the end of this violation, I sobbed even louder as the woman, FOUR TIMES, stuck the side of her gloved hand INTO my vagina, through my pants. Between my labia. She really got up there. Four times. Back right and left, and front right and left. In my vagina. Between my labia. I was shocked — utterly unprepared for how she got the side of her hand up there. It was government-sanctioned sexual assault.
Upon leaving, still sobbing, I yelled to the woman, “YOU RAPED ME.” And I took her name to see if I could file sexual assault charges on my return. This woman, and all of those who support this system deserve no less than this sort of unpleasant experience, and from all of us.
After investigating whether or not she could file sexual assault charges, and being told that this was probably a non-starter, she instead wrote about the experience, and named the TSA agent who she dealt with: Thedala Magee. Alkon felt that if people can’t stop these kinds of searches, they should at least be able to name the TSA agents who are doing them.
Magee responded by lawyering up and threatening Alkon with defamation and asking for $500,000 and the removal of the blog post.
Research Credit: Pookie
Good idea. We need to start naming names when it comes to gubment lackeys assaulting us.
I like Michael Righi’s tactic:
Constitutional Pat Down Protection
http://www.flickr.com/photos/53969873@N00/5193928986
Thelada Magee- if she really did what Amy Alkon says she did – will learn quite shortly, that when you are in the “investigative” profession, you need to have insurance against such claims. And Thelada, that terrorist sticking finger up private parts person will now probably go to debtor prison (as you know we don’t insure these poor sons of bitches searching body cavities for terror)because she will lose in court. Thank You. I abhor wishing ill on another anything living on this planet. I squash a bug and I say to it, “your body stays behind and your spirit goes with the One,” but sheesh. Right now I cannot find it within myself to wish well to people who stick their fingers anywhere in another human body for the purpose of what? Security? From who? Or what?
Pitiful, lamebrain BS.