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IP: Already, Loss of Civil Rights
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 14:35:51 -0400
Sender: bhunsake () usa alcatel com Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 13:56:08 -0400 From: Brent Hunsaker <brent.hunsaker () alcatel com> Dave, Since Sept. 11th I have read many comments here on IP regarding the suspension of civil rights in order to protect us . I want to detail an incident that happened to my Fiancee when I took her to the airport so she can travel to SLC, Ut. to interview for a job with a law firm there. As everyone knows only ticketed passenger can now proceed through the security check point into the gate area. My fiancee detailed for me an incident that happened to her as she passed through the Raleigh airport security. When she went through the metal detector she was waved into the physical search line even though she did NOT set off the detector. When she got to the male that was doing the physical search he did not wand her but began to physically search her. At one point, without asking, he reached into her business jacket and started to feel the lining of her jacket. His hand was brushing up against her breast. As the back of his hand came to rest on her breast she commented to him that "if it would help, she was not wearing a bra so there was no underwire to set off the metal detector." Without comment he finished the search and sent her on her way. She commented to me that if he had asked to search her jacket she would have removed it for him to do so. She had thought that if a physical body search was to be done that a woman would search a woman. That it would be done in privacy and not in public. She was humiliated in front of a lot of people that day. She has had a security clearance before and stated such inappropriate behavior was not tolerated at the facility she had worked. That it was not necessary to subject people to such degrading treatment to provide quality security measures. The suspension of civil rights have already begun in the name of protection from terrorists. It will only get worse. It is not necessary, but it will happen. Brent Hunsaker
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