TSA Not Sure If It Groped Man Before Flight, Demands To Grope Him After Flight Is Ove

by Mike Masnick

Mon, Sep 15th 2014 5:44am


TSA Not Sure If It Groped Man Before Flight, Demands To Grope Him After Flight Is Over

from the he's-going-to-blow-up-the-plane-then? dept

Via Amy Alkon, we learn of yet another bizarre moment in the world of security theater known as the TSA. It involves a young man from Orono, Minnesota, named Kahler Nygard, who for reasons no one will ever explain, happens to be on a "selectee" list for flying. It's not quite the no fly list, but it's the list where you get four S's on your boarding pass ("SSSS"), and the TSA is then supposed to give you and your bags that extra level of privacy-destroying attention, including a full gropedown. Nygard claims he got the full groping in Minnesota, but the TSA (or potentially a Spirit airlines employee) apparently believed it was overlooked -- though, they didn't "realize" this until the flight was halfway to Denver. Frantic calls were made and the TSA was eagerly waiting for Nygard when he landed in Denver, leading him to be pulled off the plane first (that's a self-recorded video where he cheerfully announces to those on board, "No, I have not committed a crime!"), at which point the TSA demands to grope him again:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvT7i78Aq9U

Published on Sep 7, 2014
They tried to get me to do additional screening of my Body after I was already off the plane and headed out of the airport. I ended up leaving the airport without incident from the Denver police.

Proof I was screened properly : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eke3Q...

And Here is the video of me walking off the plane:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35PUU...

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmuIF...

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Yes, after he's already flown from Minneapolis (where he claims he was groped, though the TSA claims it was missed) to Denver, the TSA wishes to grope him (and search through his bags again). Apparently, they believe that he might magically reverse time and go back in time to blow up the plane or something.

The TSA agent, Andrew Grossman, first demands Nygard's boarding pass. Nygard points out that he no longer has it (you don't need it after you board), which stumps Grossman, leading him to have to make a phone call -- where he helpfully tells whoever he's talking to at the other end that Nygard is "pretty objectionable, filming me." Nygard keeps asking why they need to search him, and the TSA has no good answer, other than saying they need to do so. Nygard asks if he's being detained, and they don't answer. He asks if it's an order or a request, and the TSA's Grossman again doesn't really answer (other than to say that he's following orders). Finally, Nygard just walks away, saying that if he's not being detained, he's leaving. The TSA claims it's calling the Denver police, who apparently did not do anything to stop Nygard, who walked out of the airport without any further problems.

I'm curious if the TSA's Blogger Bob will step up with an explanation for why a passenger should be groped post-flight.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20...-is-over.shtml

Why are our children treated like terrorists?

Because we accepted it.

No, we didn't accept these pictures. We don't accept it now. But we did.

We allowed our government to create a category of people called "terrorists" who had no rights, no liberties, no trial.

But we said "They don't look like us, so they can stay in GITMO."

"They have a middle eastern name, so they must not have rights."

I have personally heard these answers from people.

But we never learn from history.

Every government, including America, has created a category of people who didn't have rights, who no one cared about, who were lower than human...and then made war on those people before taking the rest of our population under tyranny.

Every government.

We have to learn.

We have to learn that each and EVERY time we allow a government to take rights away from a small group of people, eventually they will apply that to everyone else.

Whether it's "terrorists," "saboteurs," or "enemies of the state."

So, why are your children treated like terrorists?

Because...when it was happening to someone else...you, and I, said nothing.

-Dan




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Gee First they came for our children, we said nothing, then they came for gram-ma, we said nothing, get it yet?????