TSA agents turn their ID badges upside down & threaten to arrest a woman requesting their identities.
By Amy Alkon:
How Orwellian Are We? TSA Supe Roger Grant Refused To Give Me Name Of TSA Worker Who Groped Me At JFK.
He also threatened me with arrest just for asking for her first name (which she refused to provide me), and which was impossible to see, since she wore her ID badge upside down.
A good many TSA workers seem to wear their badges upside down -- I suspect, so they cannot be identified on blogs, as I identified the TSA's ThedalaMagee, and more recently, another LAX TSA gropenfrau, Tiffany Applewhite.
This is the text of my email to TSA press liason Nico Melendez, which details the disgusting actions of the TSA at JFK the other day, when Gregg and I were flying home.
The email asks for answers -- as well as names of those who think they're employed and empowered by the United States of Orwell.
Gregg and I were in New York attending the National Book Awards, not the al Qaeda Leadership Conference, and I'd had lunch with my book agent and my editor, a lovely Italian man whose name is decidedly not al-Zawahiri.
In other words, there was no reason whatsoever to search me -- to grope my breasts, graze my vagina, or touch me or my possessions in any way. But all of that was done to me, and Gregg was groped as well.
Let's be mindful that the government pension-seeking hamburger clerks the TSA hires couldn't find a terrorist if one crawled up their ass and whistled the al Qaeda theme song.
Any plots uncovered have been exposed by trained intelligence agents -- like Fred Humphries, the FBI agent who uncovered the Millennium bombing plot at LAX by noticing that a guy with a Montreal baptismal certificate had an Algerian accent.
SUBJECT: Nico, info needed for piece on TSA incident Nov 15 at JFK
Nico,
On Thursday, November 15, at around 2pm, I was going through Kennedy Airport, Terminal 2 (Delta), going to gate 27 for a Delta flight home to Los Angeles.
As usual, I was pulled out for more screening. (It is odd that I, like many large-breasted women am always chosen -- always by men at the metal detectors -- to go for further screening. Every time I fly.)
Of course, in this case, there was no reason to believe I was guilty of anything other than flying home to Los Angeles to feed my dog and go to bed.
The serious issue at hand here: The light-skinned black woman who screened me, last name "Moore," was wearing her photo ID upside down so her first name could not be read. After she ran her hands, most disgustingly, all over my body, grazing my labia and touching my breasts and inside my turtleneck on my bare skin, I told her I needed her first name. She refused to give it to me.
It seems to me that when a government worker is doing a contested activity like groping my body for "security" purposes, sans probable cause, or engaging in any search of me as a citizen, I am entitled to that person's full name and badge number. In fact, we should be entitled to any government worker's full name when we have any dealing with them -- as long as we are still a free country.
I am asking you to provide both the full name and badge number of agent Moore now for a piece I am writing about this event.
I also need to know if agents are required, for accountability to the public they are touching in their most private areas, to wear their identification so it is visible.
Does the public not have a right to know the name of the person they are being searched by, or have things become *that* Orwellian?