The TSA and Sex Toys

A pervert wearing the federal TSA uniform made an insulting comment to a woman who packed a sex toy in her luggage. No one should be surprised by the behavior of the keystone cops who are running airport security. These are the same pervs that are feeling up your grandma's breasts at the airport.

Upon going through the luggage of blogger Jill Filipovic, the TSA left their familiar mark to notify the traveler their Fourth Amendment right had just been violated by a government thug who serves Mordor on the Potomac. This notification was different because the TSA agent left Filipovic a note that alluded they had seen the sex toy.

The TSA announced yesterday that the offending worker has been removed from checking baggage, yet Filipovic, who is also a lawyer, says the TSA, along with the corporate media, is completely missing the point.

Writing on her blog, Filipovic states:

“It’s easy to scape-goat one individual here, but the problem with the note is that it’s representative of the bigger privacy intrusions that the U.S. government, through the TSA and other sources, levels every day,”

“The invasion is inherent to the TSA’s mission, regardless of whether a funny note is left behind — the note only serves to highlight the absurdity of all this security theater,” she continued.

“As much as this is a funny and titillating story, when I put the note on Twitter for what I thought was a relatively limited audience I was hoping it would open up a bigger conversation about privacy rights (or lack thereof) in post-9/11 America,” she added.

“It unfortunately hasn’t done that, and instead has turned into a media circus. I would imagine that the TSA agent in question feels the same way I do at this point: I just want this story to go away.”

That should make you better. The perv is no longer going through bags for the TSA; however, they aren't in the unemployment line either.

Filpovic did get it right. The TSA represents the violation of privacy and the federal government's total disregard to the right to privacy guaranteed by the Fourth Amendment.