IP: Already, Loss of Civil Rights

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> 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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