Community | April 24, 2011 | 51 comments

TSA: An Army of Pervs and Criminals

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Thomas Gordon Jr. of Philadelphia, a TSA “screener,” was arrested on March 24 and charged with distributing more than 100 images of child pornography via Facebook. He allegedly uploaded explicit pictures of young girls and also is said to have posted a photograph of himself in his TSA uniform, Fox News reported on Saturday. Gordon was arrested by Homeland Security and is being held without bail.

Federal agents also note Gordon routinely searched airline passengers, despite the fact the searches are unconstitutional and illegal. A growing number of district attorneys around the country have indicated they may charge TSA employees with sexual assault.

The Drudge Report linked the story and it was reported by Fox News, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and a handful of other news sites, but was virtually ignored by the larger corporate media.

Ryan Hamilton Jr., writing for Gather, says it is “very shocking that the TSA hasn’t alerted the public about these infractions…. This shocking news has come out as the Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) tries to figure out what to do about incidents such as these.”

In fact, instances of sexual perversion and criminal activity on the part of TSA employees is becoming routine.

In February of 2010, another TSA employee, Charles Bennett of Winter Garden, Florida, was arrested and charged with molestation of a minor after police say he tried to keep a 15 year old girl as a sex slave. On his MySpace page, Bennett called himself “Master Charles” and said he was into submissive females and claimed he is a master of bondage dominance sadism and masochism.

Sean Shanahan, a TSA worker at Logan International airport, was arrested last year after he allegedly sent sexually explicit text messages to a 14 year old girl. The inappropriate contact escalated and Shanahan had physical sexual contact with the girl at his home in February over school break, according to news reports.

In October, it was reported that an Amarillo, Texas, woman filed a lawsuit against the federal government after TSA agents allegedly humiliated her by publicly exposing her breasts during an “extended search” at an airport in Corpus Christi. The suit also claims that other TSA employees continued to joke and laugh about the incident for an extended period of time. The woman filed an administrative claim against the TSA, but the agency never responded, thus prompting her lawsuit....

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51 comments // TSA: An Army of Pervs and Criminals

  • Prijedor
  • BrushwithDeathToothpaste
    • +2
      BrushwithDeathToothpaste  

    • I would love to take 50,000 random people and see if I can find 5 well documented cases of sexual criminal activity. I wonder how 50,000 Fox employees would stand up to this kind of scrutiny. Could I brand members of the military as an army of perverts if I could find that one in ten thousand soldiers have been convicted of a sex crime?

      I love the Alex Jones article because It contains the obligatory Hitler reference. That makes perfect sense because Hitler subjugated Europe by using organizations just like the TSA. Alex, stay away from the brown shirt acid. Of course it is your own trip.

      Dagum this is classic, conspiracy, generalization, crap. Please find me an organization of 50k members that have a better record. Priests, soldiers, New Yorkers, Texans, politicians, law enforcement, ACORN, even Current members?

    • 2 years ago
  • samthesixth
  • BrushwithDeathToothpaste
  • Dagum
    • 0
      Dagum  
    • BrushwithDeathToothpaste:

      By all means, if you want to go and gather the raw data on all government agencies, companies, and all cross-segments of the population to determine the rates of Convictions for sex crimes for employees, members of a cross segment and representative subsets; knock yourself out. But No, I am not going to provide that for you.

      MAYBE in your search, however improbable, you might find out that the FDA has a higher rate of sexual convicts than the TSA?

      Then we can draw the BrushwithDeathToothpaste conclusion: "it's okay, we don't need to be concerned about the rate of sexual predators in the TSA because other government agencies are much worse." (well golly. Thanks for that. I shouldn't have even posted the story because we don't have anything to worry about. Yuck. Yuck.)

      Unfortunately, you didn't provide any evidence on your message board musings that you seek to reassure us(?), with; more importantly, even if backed up with evidence your apparent above claim is Non sequitur as it does not follow that "we should not be concerned about the Sexual predators in the TSA because there are more predators in another segment of the population."

    • 2 years ago
  • Prijedor
  • BrushwithDeathToothpaste
  • BrushwithDeathToothpaste
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      BrushwithDeathToothpaste  
    • Dagum:

      Sooo because Alex Jones presented 5 cases out of 50,000 employees, now the burden of proof is on me to show that the other 49,995 are not sexual predators? Really? Never try to represent yourself in a court of law.

    • 2 years ago
  • Jake_Leonard
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      Jake_Leonard  

    • "TSA: An Army of Pervs and Criminals"

      I'm cautious of making such generalizations. While this is a large concern, aren't there some TSA employees who are just trying to get by--to find work however they can, innocent of both these titles? Unless one can prove 100% of TSA screeners and the like are perverts and criminals, then we shouldn't blanket it for fear of treating those who aren't wrongly. I don't know, how do you feel about it?

    • 2 years ago
  • BrushwithDeathToothpaste
  • Oldstyle1991
  • samthesixth
  • Leen61
  • August_K
  • Angeliron
    • +1
      Angeliron  

    • And why is this a surprise? These people are all members of the infamous organized crime syndicate known as American government!

    • 2 years ago
  • August_K
    • -1
      August_K  
    • Angeliron:

      I can't recall his name now but he was a member of congress and he PUSHED HARD for those Rapiscan machines to be put into every airport.......then he left Congress and I believe he's now
      CEO of the company that makes those machines.

      He is a Republican too. What else.

    • 2 years ago
  • maasanova
    • +1
      maasanova  
    • August_K:

      That was Michael Chertoff, but he wasn't in the Congress he was the commissar of the Department of Homeland Security.

      The current commissar, Janet Napolitano has pushed for this nonesense too, so it is a very serious problem that, just like the foreign policy and the economy, transcends both parties.

    • 2 years ago
  • princefeliz
  • Paratus
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      Paratus  
    • princefeliz:

      Might as well be consistent. We have a CINC who in all probability could not obtain a security clearance without an election. Oh well, Thousands Standing Around will continue to do what they have always done until they get sued to an unsustainable extent or they loose too many teeth to sit down to dinner. I am really in favor of the latter as it is quicker than lawsuits but we will see.

    • 2 years ago
  • Shannon_Barber
    • +1
      Shannon_Barber  

    • I am not surprised. I get being safe, I really do. But, when this first went into effect, I, being a gender variant person, panicked and went reading around the web about how not to be humiliated with this crap, should I have to fly. I've seen sooo many horror stories. So much scary stuff. Now this.

      Sorry TSA #FAIL on this one. Either figure out how to do this effectively, without ridicule, and especially without sexual assault, or do away with it altogether.

    • 2 years ago
  • eden49
  • artemis6
  • Leen61
  • eden49
  • tlbuffin
  • eden49
  • August_K
  • riverratt50
    • +5
      riverratt50  

    • TSA Transportation Security Officers, who conduct passenger, baggage, and cargo screening at airports, undergo a two-part background investigation process. TSO applicants are first subject to a pre-employment background investigation. This investigation features the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Special Agreement Check which is a fingerprint based criminal history check that is processed through the FBI. If the pre-employment investigation is favorable and the applicant accepts a position with TSA, the individual then is subject to further background checks through OPM’s Access National Agency Check with Inquiries (ANACI). The TSO is permitted to begin employment while the ANACI is underway. If derogatory information is developed, the individual is afforded an opportunity to address the information obtained during the investigation. If the information is not favorably resolved, the individual is removed from Federal service.

      http://www.tsa.gov/press/speeches/asset_summary_multi_image_with_table_0393.shtm

    • 2 years ago
  • Leen61
    • +8
      Leen61  

    • No surprise here at all. I have seen enough videos of these pervs on BrasscheckTV. The latest one I saw was of a 6 year old girl being frisked by a TSA agent at the airport. This is an example of who applies for these jobs. It is not about safety but control and intimidation. This is why I no longer fly. It's time to put the TSA on notice and stop these civil rights violations. The people must stand up and say "Enough!"

    • 2 years ago
  • Plue
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      Plue  
    • Leen61:

      Are these creeps in the actual employ of the TSA or are they hired by private companys that contract for the TSA? Either way someone needs to do a better job of screening. And if they are hired by private contractors for the TSA this is another example of "You get what you pay for."

    • 2 years ago
  • Leen61
    • +5
      Leen61  
    • Plue:

      I know this was a big issue when the one Obama initially nominated for the job of TSA director was blocked by Jim DeMint for fear of unionization of the dept. So that makes me think they are direct hires. But like you say, either way the hiring process has been grossly negligent.

    • 2 years ago
  • Plue
  • mspray11
    • +1
      mspray11  
    • Plue:

      TSA makes employees that are contracted go through the same background check. This started about a year ago I believe. You are always going to find exceptions to the rule. The point is that the SOP goes way too far and sickos that don't even have a record are abusing it and our privacy. I don,t fly any more either.

    • 2 years ago
  • mspray11
  • Leen61
  • Leen61
  • Leen61
  • vixxxen618
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      vixxxen618  
    • Plue:

      If you run a background check and it comes up clean, you can't very well NOT hire someone. You can't catch them all on the front end, because some of them haven't been caught yet.

    • 2 years ago
  • Plue
  • vixxxen618
  • Tuppy54
  • rustyred
    • +2
      rustyred  
    • Tuppy54:

      I have worked in social services for 27 years and almost every job required a background check with the FBI and the DOJ. I would think that a TSA job where children, the elderly, the disabled, and others are routinely encountered would do the same. I just don't get it.

    • 2 years ago
  • mspray11
  • madammarsh
    • +5
      madammarsh  

    • Just great! I'm getting on a plane for the first time in two years in May. This makes me wish I could just hitchhike. Oh, wait, I used to do that in the 70s and people were kind of interested in groping me then, too....

    • 2 years ago
  • ThatCrazyLibertarian
  • Leen61
  • KSirys
    • +7
      KSirys  

    • Anytime kids are involved, people like this guy deserve to go to jail for at least 50 yrs. Kids are our future and if assholes like this piece of shit are allowed to get out early, we are only encouraging other pieces of shit, to do it....

    • 2 years ago
  • oppressed1
  • KSirys
  • bailey78
  • KB723

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