Pat-downs anger RDU fliersNewsobserver.com
BY BRUCE SICELOFF
Survivors of sexual assault feel especially vulnerable during the new security screening, advocates and local travelers say. Rape crisis counselors say the pat-downs trigger post-traumatic stress reactions - making survivors of rape and abuse feel like victims all over again. >>>
Tim Ely, a retired Army officer who once commanded a military police unit in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, filed an online complaint after a Nov. 20 confrontation at RDU. He was subjected to an intimate pat-down because of a false alarm from the body scanner.
After an agent groped around his genitals from in front and from behind, Ely challenged him to explain what sort of anomaly had turned up on his full-body scan.
"He said there was something suspicious hanging from between my legs," Ely, 63, wrote in his RDU online comment. "I told him that something suspicious was my [genitals], you dummy."
MOREMaybe my tinfoil is just too tight, but I believe that part of the intent is to kill the American airline industry.