Rape Victim Arrested at Airport After Refusing TSA Pat Down…
Obama’s TSA Stormtroopers rack up another victim…
(kvue.com) — Early Wednesday morning, a computer glitch shut down a security checkpoint for a couple of hours at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport. The line snaked out the door as many travelers waited for more than an hour and some missed their flights. One of the first people in line after that shutdown never made it through. She was arrested and banned from the airport.
Claire Hirschkind, 56, who says she is a rape victim and who has a pacemaker-type device implanted in her chest, says her constitutional rights were violated.
She says she never broke any laws. But the Transportation Security Administration disagrees.
Hirschkind was hoping to spend Christmas with friends in California, but she never made it past the security checkpoint.
“I can’t go through because I have the equivalent of a pacemaker in me,” she said.
Hirschkind said because of the device in her body, she was led to a female TSA employee and three Austin police officers. She says she was told she was going to be patted down.
“I turned to the police officer and said, ‘I have given no due cause to give up my constitutional rights. You can wand me,’” and they said, ‘No, you have to do this,’” she said.
Hirschkind agreed to the pat down, but on one condition.
“I told them, ‘No, I’m not going to have my breasts felt,’ and she said, ‘Yes, you are,’” said Hirschkind.
When Hirschkind refused, she says that “the police actually pushed me to the floor, (and) handcuffed me. I was crying by then. They drug me 25 yards across the floor in front of the whole security.”
An ABIA spokesman says it is TSA policy that anyone activating a security alarm has two options. One is to opt out and not fly, and the other option is to subject themselves to an enhanced pat down. Hirschkind refused both and was arrested.
Other travelers KVUE talked to say they empathize with Hirschkind, but the law is the law.
“I understand her side of it, and their side as well, but it is for our protection so I have no problems with it,” said Gwen Washington, who lives in Killeen.
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She’s clearly dangerous and belongs in jail.
It isn’t about security its about Submission I thought they had battled this out at Austin
Fascism has come to America thanks to Zero and Nappy..
This shit is getting out of hand.
I have said before.
The Cork of Anger will Pop.
It is coming soon.
I hope that we will have a change in Government that will refrain from subjecting us from the control of the United Nations.
The U.N. Has very few people in the United States to protect them. Eventually these people will be asked to leave.
Too many people like the woman quoted in the article. It is for our own protection. It is people like that that agree to be slaves in safety.
I’ve been ready for the UN to leave the US for 20+ years…
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Seriously?! There’s still a constitution?
We have a Federal Government totally out of the citizens control. Perhaps it is time for the States to begin considering secession.
“A nation of sheep will beget a Government of wolves.” E. R. Murrow
Does the safest airline in the world (EL AL) have these tactics? No, they PROFILE! They and the rest of the world LAUGH at us. If you condone the TSA actions then you are just as big an idiot as the TSA employee feeling you up.
I’ve worked for EL AL, their security clearance was harder to obtain than the one I had to get for Lockheed.
If only she said she was a Muslim, none of this would have happened.
The federal government is totally out of control – with this and just about everything else they are doing.
For GOD’S sake – when are the people going to stand up and fight back?
I have a huge problem with what the TSA did to this woman.
I have a bigger problem with the moonbat who thinks it’s ok for this to happen ‘for our protection’.
People like her accept tyranny in degrees. A little here, a little there..and with the proper propaganda, before you know it, you have a real police state.
We allow paper pushing bureaucrats to make these policies, and idiots like her just lay down for it.
the tsa is the new gestapo
I’m sure that woman was dark skinned, had a middle eastern look, and was probably also wearing a Burkah… Yeah, that’s why they did it…
Sultan Knish wrote an essay which addresses this issue: Terrorizing Our Own
Money quote:
They do this to a white woman, but they allowed a muslim iranian-American to get on a plane with a loaded gun! Why? Because they refuse to check out arab looking men for fear of offending their islamic masters.
The TSA is training for future herding of cattle, I mean humanoids, into ovens…
nice and orderly…
She wasn’t a victim of rape-rape
/Whoopi Nutburger
“so I have no problems with it” says the “average citizen”.
That, is frightening. She’s a subject, not a citizen, now. Gwen Washington is programmed to say what the MSM and government WANT her to say, and do.
How many travelers did KVEU talk to before they found one who agreed with it? For those of you who don”t know Kaleen, Texas, it’s where Fort Hood is located.
See? Makes you wonder.
Criticizing TSA makes me nuts
/Whoopi Nutburger
Judge Nappy seems to genuinely fear for the Republic. He said when he saw the masses go along with this outrageous intrusion in the name of safety, he was horrified. He never believed Americans would put up with this.
“…….Other travelers KVUE talked to say they empathize with Hirschkind, but the law is the law.
“I understand her side of it, and their side as well, but it is for our protection so I have no problems with it,” said Gwen Washington, who lives in Killeen.
The Sheeple ,dutifully submitting to Tyranny, brings to mind the Ben Franklin quote:”They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither safety nor liberty.”
Welcome to the growth of US Communism, courtesy of the Communist-in-Chief and his many comrades in Washington.
They like these tactics. They will look for any excuse to increase them. They love doing evil. I still say don’t fly unless absolutely necessary.
We need to write our reps. when the new congress is seated. I will put it on my list.
Every citizen waiting in line with this woman should have walked out of the airport after having seen her dragged away. It’s times like this that make me despair for my fellow Americans, when they will not stand up and be counted
to do the right thing. Self interest wins over patriotism every time in the land
of the sheeple.
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety”
Ben Franklin
Imagine if the evil Boooosh had instigated this program? Imagine what the ACLU and the leftisits that thought the Patriot Act was so terrible would be doing about now? I’m not sure that this isn’t Obama’s designed plan to turn our nation into a chaotic nightmare that only the US government can straighten out. Then he will have the coutry right where he has wanted it all along. Then when his stupid Obamacare fails, which he knows it will, the US gov will have to step in to keep us insured. It really is a simple plan and people like Ms. Washington will fall right in line without any struggle..
“but it is for our protection so I have no problems with it”
HEIL HITLER!
“…but the law is the law.” Is what the excuse was for every Nazi convicted at the Nuremberg Trials after WWII. They would always say that you had to do what you were told because if you didn’t, they’d arrest you, and then put you in a concentration camp, where you would eventually die. From this we get the “Nuremberg Principle” where those individuals who believe in the fallacy that the ‘law is the law’ will some day be held accountable for violations of basic human rights, such as those ‘inalienable’ rights, and then be made to pay society for those crimes against humanity.
I knew this while serving in the military and it was my duty to my country to know the difference between a lawful and unlawful order. Believe me it is no small task and entails serious repercussions if you ever screw up either way.
“In Germany, the Nazis first came for the communists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak for me.”– The statement was written by the Rev. Martin Niemoeller, a German Lutheran pastor who was arrested by the Gestapo in 1938. He was sent to the concentration camp at Dachau, where he remained until he was freed by the Allied forces in 1945.
” Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal. ”
-Martin Luther King, Jr., (1929-1968)
@jharp
Haven’t you figured this out yet? Conservatives blame Obama for all the things Bush started. They then take soundbites from obvious retards and claim it is what all liberal or non-conservative people think, despite the fact that we have been against it from the get go. It’s a coping mechanism so they can feel superior to everybody. Conservatives are shady, unethical and immoral peeps.
Ru – get up on the wrong side of the bed today?
We weren’t in favor of indefinite imprisonment. Just until the end of hostilities, in accordance with international law.
Haha, just a little early morning Christmas Eve shitgiving. I have the day off and can troll all I want. Lord knows I’m not flying home/getting anally probed today.
asaracen-
You are absolutely right. Sins of omission are just as bad as sins of comission.
“Those who won’t stand up for the rights of others lose those rights for themselves.”
I said that.
1945: “We were only following orders.”
2020: “But the law is the law.”
I am a high-class troll, and I refuse to troll down to your level.
@jharp
Hmm. Is that your shorthand for “jewsharp”?
Listen you immature, ignorant, irrelevant little snot, you must mistake beeing an asshole for being courageous. You come on here incognito and spew your hate speech at people you don’t know, presuming that they believe certain things you think they should or should not believe.
Who is the one who is stupid? Which one of us is ignorant? Which one of us is filled with hate?
You are you little nothing. You are insignificant. You have NOTHING to offer. You are the supreme example of what NOT to be in life. Neither are you or your words, thoughts and deeds to be taken seriously but only with a heavy dose of scorn and rejection.
Now, go run along like a good little child and take you bigotry, racism and hate speech some place where they embrace that sort of bile and profanity, some place that loves small minded, worthless subhumans like you, such as HuffPo, moveon.org, salon.com, the New York Times, mediamatters.com, the Demorroid Party and the Oval Office, you vile little pervert.
Jharp really doesn’t care about gays if he did he would call for the removal of ahmanutjob and demand maobama grow a pair
@ Ru
I wish you Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year as I do all Zippers.
This is the finest group on the web.
Bush started this crap but it is necessary for obama to continue the same crap which got called bush a fascist to save our lives
Go fuck yourself troll
@Satan4033
jharp doesn’t really believe in anything. But some day he’ll grow up. Maybe.
In the mean time, I believe I’ll go have something to drink. Maybe shoot a caribou from a helicopter or something.
Conservatives are shady unethical creeps
Project much rangel worshipper?
Everything is bushs fault right you jew haters honestly even if bush were not president in 2001 this would be his fault
Do the world a favor and drop dead
@RadioMattM: Crud, we have to put up with this till 2020?!!
@ Rupaula: Your chosen name is all anyone needs to know about your ability to grasp common sense. Happy trolling.
The thing that has been bothering me the most is that historically, whenever a government has gotten so blatantly disconnected from it’s people, usually it’s the military that finally steps in and assumes control, at least for a little while.
Is that why they had to push so hard for the new DADT mess, to distract others and to ensure their own people are on top , causing the current group of proudly serving American soldiers to flee the service?
Remember charlie Rangel is an ethical man
but yet we’re the unethical shady jew loving creeps right rupaula?
@Bob
Merry Christmas, Happy New Year and a Festive Secular Non-Denominational Winter Solstice Consumerist Gift Giving Celebration back at ya. I hope an appropriate to your belief system, tradition-based, non-offensive seasonal figure leaves many gender neutral, socially responsible presents under your celebratory environmentally friendly, decorated conifer bush.
Happy Festivus, Rupaula, and Christmas for the rest of us.
Careful she’ll break out in hives if you say christmas just say happy rupaulamas
@hoodaticus,
As a present, I’ve made a donation to the Human Fund in your name. The Human Fund – Money for People.
You unethical shady wingnut you
Everything is bushs fault
Hyperinflation-Bushs fault
Lung Cancer-Bushs fault
Jsharp broke his ankle-Bushs fault
BTW why am i not suprised that maobama never gets the blame for continuing bushs policies
BTW bush was an idiot to start this
LOL!
Rupaula says:
December 24, 2010 at 2:21 pm
@Bob
Merry Christmas, Happy New Year and a Festive Secular Non-Denominational Winter Solstice Consumerist Gift Giving Celebration back at ya. I hope an appropriate to your belief system, tradition-based, non-offensive seasonal figure leaves many gender neutral, socially responsible presents under your celebratory environmentally friendly, decorated conifer bush.
Ru – Pure genius.
Does getting a new All Clad cooking pan qualify as “gender neutral”?
“Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law’, because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.” -Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“…but it is for our protection so I have no problems with it,” said Gwen Washington, who lives in Killeen.
So how many potential terrorist attackers have the TSA stopped? The answer is, of course, none. I wonder what other forms of intrusive ‘security’ procedures would sheeple like Gwen have no problems with? Is it for your protection that the our border with Mexico is a virtual highway for human smuggling and drug traffickers? The kabuki theater being given to you at airports is a prime example of how people can be conditioned into having their children molested by complete strangers while at the same time not secure checkpoints into their own country. Just tell them it’s for their security. Yes, people really are that stupid.
Real protection:
http://www.frugal-cafe.com/public_html/frugal-blog/frugal-cafe-blogzone/2010/12/24/marc-thiessens-stunning-courting-disaster-how-america-was-kept-safe-from-terrorism-until-now/
How can you live in America?
You are not even permitted to sing Christmas Carols.
Hey jtard, I already know your type. This is the only kind of communication you know, isn’t it? Just one put down after another, and that’s all you got. Which really isn’t anything. It’s like one dog turd after another which is kinda annoying but not much ado about anything. But you just can’t help yourself since you’ve got nothing else that’s worth saying. Sucks, don’t it?
But hey, stick around and you just might learn something someday.
Why would detaining Jose Padillo be worse than groping everyday Americans? This sounds like an argument that only a lawyer would think makes sense. Personally, it makes sense to me to focus police actions towards actual terrorists, but obviously I’m missing the sympathy I’m supposed to have for spies and ununiformed terrorists.
And I still haven’t heard how it’s ok to ratchet up all of the objectionable Bush policies and it’s ok now but under Bush it was “fascism”. From probing to increased droning, everything seems to be stepped-up now. That doesn’t mean everything was OK then and bad now (funny how liberals are actuallythe ones that see only black-and-white with no sublety), but that things are “worse” now, in general, as far as liberty is concerned. I’m sure there is room for much worse which I hope will not be deemed necessary. Call me a sheeple, but I’m not going to take up arms and I’m not ready to give up on our democratic system. We can roll back to Bush policies, and things will be “better” and still imperfect in an imperfect world.
According to jtard and his ilk Bush is a war criminal for torturing terrorist but maobama con continue bushs evil policies and opposing them now is unamerican treason for some reason
but it is for our protection so I have no problems with it,” ….. What a cupid stunt.. Some government agent feeling you up makes you safer? She is part of the problem ,not the answer.
If you’re going to keep repeating your awesome remark like a moonbat parrot, could you at least look up the correct punctuation?
Never mind — I know you guys aren’t big on research or logic, so here:
God, (comma here — get it?) you people are stupid.
Cam someone please tell me why it is bad for bush to keep jose padilla locked up for more than 3 years but if maobama wanted to keep him locked up indefinitely it would be ok?
Jharp-Because he is our firstest black president and you are waaaaaaaacist to challenge his authority
if jose padilla were alive that is?
oh wait he is
“The law is the law”… That’s almost as funny as, “If you don’t want to go to jail, don’t commit a crime”.
Tell that to the thousands of innocents in prison who weren’t rich enough to buy a little slice of justice.
Such mindlessly fascist comments are usually followed by references to “Bubba”, alluding to prison rape as a fitting punishment for just about any crime.
In the words of the great Walter Williams, “Immoral laws aren’t worthy of obedience”.
William your so stupid
/Jharp
And if it were so awful for maobama to keep padilla impriosned than why don’t you protest maobama