One woman had her blouse pulled down and her breasts exposed.
Old women have been stripped searched.
Others have spent a night in jail, and spent thousands of dollars in legal fees.

The National Association of Airline Passengers would like to see all TSA agents licensed by the state, bonded and insured to guarantee good conduct. There should be a civilian review board at each airport to hear complaints by passengers, with the power to suspend, revoke or fail to renew every screeners license. Police need to be trained to protect passengers from misconduct by TSA agents.

Right now passengers have no recourse against TSA agent misconduct. Police will refuse to hear your complaint, and prosecutors are afraid to prosecute TSA wrongdoing. TSA agents can have the US justice department defend them for free, while the passenger has to use his own funds to defend himself. Want to sue the TSA? You must first file a claim under the civil procedures act, wait 6 moths, and then file in court. And of course, the TSA investigates itself, and surprise surprise, it never finds any wrongdoing on its part. But it can, and will, and has levyed civil penalties on passengers. Who adjudicates those penalties? The TSA itself, of course!

BTW, every congressman’s staff that I have talked to tells me the same thing – TSA is the one agency that does not respond to their letters.

Some people will tell you, “If you don’t like it, don’t fly!” and many people give up their right to fly because of the TSA. That is an understandable reaction. But let’s not give up the fight. We all have a right to fly. Lets change the law now so we can all fly without being intimidated, irradiated or molested by the TSA.

As for this: “I understand that the rules exist because they don’t want the individual TSA personnel making judgment calls. Everyone gets treated by the same set of rules.”

No, that’s false. The “rules” change according to individual TSA agent’s whims. And you were singled out for abuse because you were traveling alone and had no one to stand up for you, to check these thugs, to witness.

This isn’t about security. None of this is about security. It’s about power. It’s about control. It’s about grooming and credulous — and still sheeplike — populace to accept ever more invasive, ever more intrusive measures.

I do have to ask why you weren’t aware that all this was going on before? I find this stunning. Did you think all the accounts in the news were anomalies, or people simply lying or “whining”? Or were you okay with it as long as it was happening to someone else.

Alas, I fear far too many Americans fall into that last category.

And, I also think something is wrong with your husband. That’s now how you respond to your wife telling you she was brutally sexually assaulted.

“what she was going to do which honestly made me want to cry. ” -that’s traumatizing, you have my sincerest sympathy.

To the Mister and I hope you’re reading this: learn to be a better man and husband.

I think that women are failing to address the issue loudly and en-masse simply because as 21C professionals, we have little experience with the kind of butt-pinching and titty-grabbing harassment that was common a generation or so ago.

It’s such a primitive, throwback kind of sexual abuse — as a result, I think women feel that it’s somehow their fault, that somehow they must have failed to live up their standards of confidence, strength and professionalism.

TSA definitely singles out women traveling alone. Like AK State Rep. Sharon Cissna — who just spent two days taking a boat home from Seattle after TSA demanded that she to inspect her mastectomy. Or mathematician Prof. Sommer Gentry — co-developer of paired kidney donation — who says she will no longer fly in the US.

I don’t know why NOW isn’t all over this – and I’ve sent mail asking – they’re not likely to see any more of my $.

Please log onto this site: http://epic.org/bodyscanner/incident_report/

And report your incident. EPIC is currently suing the DHS and TSA regarding these scanners and would love to hear from you.

Again, I’m sorry.