85-year-old woman may sue TSA after being strip searched at JFK Airport

[Lucille]

Since when is being strip searched "proper procedure?"

85-year-old woman may sue TSA after being strip searched at JFK Airport

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/lenore-zimmerman-85-hurt-strip-search-tsa-agents-jfk-airport-article-1.986198#ixzz1fWPUbbSA


Lenore Zimmerman, who lives in Long Beach, says she was on her way to a 1 p.m. flight to Fort Lauderdale when security whisked her to a private room and took off her clothes.
[...]
TSA spokeswoman Lisa Farbstein said a review of closed circuit TV footage from the airport shows “proper procedures were followed.”
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When Zimmerman reached a security checkpoint, she asked if she could forgo the advanced image technology screening equipment, fearing it might interfere with her defibrillator.

She said she normally gets patted down. But this time, she says that two female agents escorted her to a private room and began to remove her clothes.

“I was outraged,” said Zimmerman, a retired receptionist.

As she tried to lift a lightweight walker off her lap, she says, the metal bars banged against her leg and blood trickled from a gash.

“My sock was soaked with blood,” she said. “I was bleeding like a pig.”

She says the TSA agents showed no sympathy, instead pulling down her pants and asking her to raise her arms.

“Why are you doing this?” she said she asked the agents, who did not respond.

The TSA claims the footage does not show any sign of the injury.

“Our screening procedures are conducted in a manner designed to treat all passengers with dignity, respect and courtesy,” Farbstein said.

[Ben Bernanke]

Saw this on Drudge. Absolutely outrageous, but is anyone surprised? Stuff like this happens daily.

[moderate libertarian]

Since when is being strip searched "proper procedure?"



Since we joined war on terror.

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?334431-85-year-old-woman-injured-during-strip-search-at-JFK&p=3802280&viewfull=1#post3802280


It seems terrorists have successfully mangaed to bring to American women at airports what Palestinian/arab women had to go through at Israeli airports for last few decades. It's growing to be far more widespread in victim humilation as racism based discrimination is officially unlawful in US. It's a cluster mess that would only get worse in future on current track of our foreign policy.

[Humanae Libertas]

They'll just toss her case out like they did Ventura's. Your rights don't matter in the new America.

[moderate libertarian]

Came across this, apparently pro war GOP Christian leader Mike Huckabee wants Obama's wife and daughters to be pat-downed by TSA:


Mike Huckabee To Obama: Have TSA Pat Down First Family

Yet more potential evidence that the 2012 presidential campaign is already upon us.

Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor and Fox News personality, has dared President Obama to motorcade to Washington Reagan National Airport with the First Family and have the Obamas submit to one of those very controversial airport pat-down inspection.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2010/11/23/131540212/mike-huckabee-to-obama-have-tsa-pat-down-first-family


Isn't it bit hypocritical on part of Huck... he supports bloodbath in Iraq but does not support strip searches of American women as pre-emptove defense against blowback underwear attacks?

[QueenB4Liberty]

Ew I hope Huckabee doesn't run for President. :(

That sucks about the woman, but the time to complain has come and gone.

[Bruno]

Who feels safer knowing this poor woman was strip searched?!? :(

[heavenlyboy34]

They'll just toss her case out like they did Ventura's. Your rights don't matter in the new America.
Mundanes don't have rights. ;) :(

[Anti Federalist]

See Something, Say Something.

More Cops, More Stops.

The Homeland is the Battlefield.

All you thought criminals are reported.

[Lucille]

The TSA denies it, and they ain't gonna lie!

85-year-old says she was strip searched at JFK
TSA said it wasn't conducted (http://www.local10.com/news/85-year-old-says-she-was-strip-searched-at-JFK/-/1717324/4870970/-/4dg4fk/-/index.html)


But the Transportation Security Administration said in a statement Saturday no strip search was conducted.

"While we regret that the passenger feels she had an unpleasant screening experience, TSA does not include strip searches as part of our security protocols and one was not conducted in this case," the statement read.

IIRC, there has been at least one other strip search, on another oldster wearing an adult diaper.

[JK/SEA]

See Something, Say Something.

More Cops, More Stops.

The Homeland is the Battlefield.

All you thought criminals are reported.

you forgot one:

''fight em over there so we don't have to fight em over here''

[Lucille]

Tea Party Congress has Failed to Tackle TSA Terrorism (http://barelyablog.com/?p=45203)


Lenore Zimmerman is defiant and articulate. Would that individuals like her replaced the Occupy Wall Street Idiocracy. The “85-year-old Long Island grandmother” is the latest victim of the homegrown terrorists of the TSA. She might be tiny and fragile, but unlike so many other TSA “victims,” Lenore is not weepy or weak:
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These TSA legalized assaults happen daily in police state USA. The triumphant Republican majority in Congress claims to have a new-found affinity for freedom. If this were so, their first order of business would have been to stop the molestation en masse at the country’s airports. So far nothing has been done about the ongoing violations of the individual’s constitutional right to be free of unreasonable searches without probable cause.

Face it, the Republican Party’s fidelity is to the security state, not to liberty.

[dillo]

they hate us for our freedoms

[Pericles]

All you thought criminals are reported.

Anti-party deviationism.

[Philhelm]

See something, touch something.

[Pericles]

See something, touch something.

Sounds kinky.:)