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Man Protests TSA With Nudity
New submitter blindbat writes "John E. Brennon 'said he was fed up with being harassed by airport security stripped to his birthday suit while in an airport screening lane Tuesday evening and was arrested.'"
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now every time he applies for a job he will come up on the sex offender search
This man is a hero.
what's my new hero's /. UID?
Some passengers covered their eyes as well as their children's and retreated from the sight.
I just wanna know how many peek through the covered eyes?
"Do not strip until told to strip."
Did the TSA do a body cavity search before they called the cops?
I've got a cousin who loves to mess with people who mess with him. When telemarketers call, he tries to keep them on the line as long as possible, only to tell them at the end that he's not interested. When people try to push brochures or flyers on him, he grabs as many as he can carry, crumples them up in front of the sales drone, and throws them in the trash. He's quite clever and takes a great delight in his ingenuity (my favorite is when he goes off on telemarketers, yelling "I'm trying to masturbate here!!!").
His answer to the TSA pat-down? He starts acting like he's getting off on it and then hits on the TSA agent (male or female) at the end of it.
What political party do you join when you don't like Bible-thumpers *or* hippies?
Let us declare April 17 as Airport Security Nudity Day.
When asked why, the answer is almost always: "It's 2014".
Liberty in your lifetime
,,then showing everything should not be illegal.
The government should be told they can't have their cake and eat it to. Congress members should follow (birthday) suit. Unless of course, they have something to hide..
Is there a law about taking Viagra and enjoying the patdown? Let the holiday start before take off. Not the best thing to do when wearing a Kilt I guess; but I don't claim this to be a wise idea.
The best part of the article is his father's statement! 'He does something with the Internet, which is just kind of mystical to me.' - LOL Something that 90% of those who know me, would say of me. Still amazes me how many people still see the internet as 'mystical'. As previously mentioned, this guy certainly has a slashdot profile, I'm sure of it!
California and computer are screwing up people ;)
Just kidding he is a hero.
In fact if everybody stood naked on the line, the security check will be faster.
We here at the TSA has been doing a spectacular job of undermining airport security and making a mockery of government policy in the wake of 9/11. we certainly dont need the help of airline passengers to continue this legacy, especially if in this case it takes all the fun out of clandestine patdowns and secret naked pictures. Now gentlemen, if you'll excuse me, i believe theres an 8 year old girl and an incontinent 72 year old diabetic that need some 'enhanced screening'
Good people go to bed earlier.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
The TSA agents are acting as directed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_defense
Palm trees and 8
The father's response bugged me a bit:
"This is quite a shock. He hasn't been under any stress that I know of. He's never really under any stress. He works for a computer company in California. He does something with the Internet, which is just kind of mystical to me."
People who are under stress will often suppress it and put on a happy face to everyone around. This isn't a healthy way of dealing with it, of course, and the person is likely to snap at some point.
And also, the Internet is mystical??!!! "For my next trick, I shall conjure up Google's homepage!" *awaits oohs and aaahs from the crowd*
My sci-fi novel, Ghost Thief, is now available from Amazon.com.
In California that is sexual harassment, and carries significant legal liability. (In California it doesn't matter if you work for a place or not, if you create a "hostile work environment" then you can get raked over the coals)
That way, when you're naked, it's because they told you to take off the coat. How could you be charged with any crime when it was the TSA that forced you into it?
:wq
1. Seeing a naked man
2. Having their eyes covered up when a naked man is seen
I would much prefer to have my child see a naked man (and explain to her why he's doing it) rather than giving her the message "a naked body is a bad thing, something awful is happening, this man is evil". The naked man wouldn't bother her in the least anyway. Why make it so?
to say that working in a computer company is not stressful is paradoxical, at the very least.
Dear America. Pull that stick out of your ass. It was just a naked person.
"His name was John E. Brennon"
"His name was John E. Brennon"
"His name was John E. Brennon..."
An arrest does not mean conviction. You make it sound like he's convicted already. I hope he asks for a jury trial and there is Jury Nullification.
Easiest way to stop this nonsense at this point.
After reading this, I have to wonder whether he would have been arrested if he'd gotten dressed when asked. Being able to flash the TSA but avoid jail if you just put your clothes back on when asked would have interesting/intriguing implications.
When someone says, "Any fool can see
I bet there are plenty of criminals who feed their families with the money they make from their crimes. Yet somehow, that does not absolve them of responsibility for their actions. Why should the TSA workers, who are being paid to sexually assault members of the public, be treated any different? Nobody signs up to work for the TSA without knowing what that agency does.
Palm trees and 8
why not protest this way; boycott air travel
Horrah for this man! We need to do EVERYTHING we can RIGHT NOW to defend and support his actions.
For those of you that do not remember Cindy Sheehan, she was a lone war protester, who was ridiculed initially, by the media, by officials, and everyone else, but she bravely kept it up and turned the country around to questioning the war instead of just being "rah rah, go usa"
This person now needs our support before he's thrown in jail and made to disappear. The media need to support him, NOT ridicule him, as I'm sure they will, assuming they cover this story AT ALL.
We need to take the fight up and shed light on it, make the media question the TSA, and whether we're over-reaching in our response to 9/11.
This dude has sacrificed himself for the rest of us. Don't let his sacrifice be in vain.
If telephones are outlawed, then only outlaws will have telephones.
Didn't this guy know that it's ok to touch, but not to look?
Check your premises.
Ya think TSA is starting to get the hint?
This is the only place I know of where you can be forced to expose yourself naked to others, be forced by law to allow strangers to grope you, then get arrested for indecent exposure.
or else!
It was inevitable, but it happened yet again: a law supposedly intended to "protect the children" does very little of that, and instead punishes people for life, often for relatively trivial things like this.
What is Bill Gates doing in the foreground of the picture dressed as a TSA officer?
Sig? Heil
I don't know what juris-dick-ion is on penis at Portland International or airports in general but Oregon has no obscenity laws due to the way the Oregon constitution is written. Since the arrest was made by Portland police it seems to indicate that this falls under local laws. The Oregon constitution's free speech language is why Portland has naked runs and naked bike rides every year without arrests. See State of Oregon v. Henry Unless they have evidence of "attempting to arouse sexual desire" this appears to be clearly protected under free speech under the Oregon constitution.
"Being naked in public in Portland is legal if it falls within the guidelines of ORS 163.465, which are included below. ORS 163.465. Public indecency
(1) A person commits the crime of public indecency if while in, or in view of, a public place the person performs:
(a) An act of sexual intercourse;
(b) An act of deviate sexual intercourse; or
(c) An act of exposing the genitals of the person with the intent of arousing the sexual desire of the person or another person."
You guys aren't going to have this fixed by the time I fly into the States in July, are you?
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
EXCEPT, as has been pointed out by several other cases, when you're in the airport, you're no longer in part of the USA or any "State", so the "laws" under which the rest of the country operates under no longer apply.
This airport may have its own obscenity laws which this person has violated. Of course, they may not, but it doesn't matter. People now are arrested all the time at airports, for any reason, without necessarily having violated any law.
Hell, we've been holding people in jails for years and they've never even been charged with a CRIME.
What USA do you think you're living in where you can quote a Oregon law and think that applies at an airport?
If telephones are outlawed, then only outlaws will have telephones.
And what lame apologist excuse will you use when the TSA is groping people at bus terminals, train stations, cruise ship terminals, and even at random stops along the nation's highways?
"If you don't like the TSA, never leave your house! That's what the internet is for!" Is that what you'll say?
If telephones are outlawed, then only outlaws will have telephones.
I'll pay 20 bucks for the most ugly person to strip naked at the airport like this man did !
A good use of ugly people !
UGLY PEOPLE TO THE RESCUE !!!
WE NEED YOU UGLY PEOPE !!!!!!!!! GO BE A HERO !!! YOU HAVE MY FULL SUPPORT !!!!
The same thing has occurred to me a number of times. "If they're that freaked about what I may or may not be carrying, I might as well take my clothes off and show them."
No, I haven't done it.
...laura
Said Brennan's father, also John Brennan, when reached by KATU News Tuesday night: "This is quite a shock. He hasn't been under any stress that I know of. He's never really under any stress. He works for a computer company in California. He does something with the Internet, which is just kind of mystical to me. This is quite a surprise."
Laughing My Fucking Ass Off
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Everyone hates security until their plane gets hijacked. Then we would be reading about the lack of security.
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Drunken+Abbotsford+wash+themselves+wash+without/6410075/story.html
A few guys in a city not too far from Vancouver got off with a warning. In the US, you get stomped, arrested, thrown into a dozen different lists that make day-to-day life humiliating, unbearable, etc. Why do people in the US hate their own bodies so much?
But they don't want to see you naked. Wuw..Huh?!
He robbed them of a chance to humiliate and control.
It's not about seeing you naked, it's about them knowing that you don't want them to see you naked and publicly grope you, and being able to do it anyway.
Check your premises.
But they don't want to see you naked. Wuw..Huh?!
This is too low of a tech, can't justify billions in the x-ray machines.
Questions raise, answers kill. Raise questions to stay alive.
I sense a great opportunity for running the local airport from a nude beach.
A more detailed article from the local Oregonian newspaper, with more details about exactly what happened (the TSA said he tested positive for explosives), some statements from John Brennan about why he did it, etc.
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2012/04/northeast_portland_man_choses.html
Your cousin would like this :-) http://www.digyourowngrave.com/tom-mabe-telemarketer-crime-scene-prank/
"they don't finger fuck anyone"
How do you know? All I've seen is some touching under that area by a stranger. I, personally, have not looked close enough to say whether finger fucking were going on or not.
Obviously, you have.
Some passengers (...) laughed and began snapping photos.
TSA must be going soft, since they seem to allow now people taking photos around the security checks areas.
Said Brennan's father, also John Brennan, when reached by KATU News Tuesday night: "This is quite a shock. He hasn't been under any stress that I know of. He's never really under any stress. He works for a computer company in California. He does something with the Internet, which is just kind of mystical to me. This is quite a surprise."
If that's the case, why would there not have been an arrest made in this case: http://kdvr.com/2012/04/10/woman-strips-naked-at-dia/
She wasn't even protesting TSA, and it's not clear to anyone why she even stripped naked. If the airports have their own obscenity laws, they certainly aren't being applied anywhere close to evenly.
In fact, that these events happened so recent to each other implies that if there is such a "law" inside the airports jurisdiction, they are selectively enforcing it with the man in Portland to suppress his freedom of expression.
I ignored their dignity.
http://www.callhating.com/
This is just another adverse effect that trickled out of the establishment's reaction to terrorism. Meanwhile, the small fraction of the population that could be categorized as terrorists are sitting back laughing at (us) while we fumble-around in the folly we have created. Wake up, people! Don't let those arrogant few get to you!
...for "an idiot".
Hope his 15 seconds of fame was worth being on sex offender lists and No Fly lists for life.
The idiocracy of the whole TSA thing is that they all missed the main lesson of 911. The day actually demonstrated that sometimes the passengers really do need to have weapons. That sad day could not have turned out any worse if everyone aboard each of the hijacked aircraft had been obliged to carry a loaded pistol. Put a loaded glock in each seat back, I say.
Heavy is the head that wears the tinfoil hat.
Except going into someone's house doesn't require you to pay an arm and a leg for a plane ticket that you can't get a refund on if you don't like being strip searched.
If I invited you into my house, charged admission, then bitched about your shoes and made you either take them off or leave, you'd be pissed at me too, and for a good reason.