Jesse Ventura Sues TSA Over Body scans, Pat Downs

Vatic Note: Oh, I am going to enjoy this one tremendously. I hope he points out to the court and the jury that instaead of homeland protecting us from terror, they are actually engaging in terror which is what these people go through when trying to fly somewhere and especially the children who cry and cry and the parents are unable to do anything to protect their children unless they want to go to jail and then the child or children will end up in the care of social services and we all know how these children get raped when that happens. We just saw that with the Oathkeeper whose 16 hour old baby had that happen to her. So this is great that someone with name recognition has decided to take on the bogus khazar run dept full of dual israeli citizens working for the best interests of Israel. I will be happy to see them all meet justice through the system. It would go a long way in repairing all the damage they have done.

Jesse Ventura Sues TSA Over Body scans, Pat Downs
http://beforeitsnews.com/story/374/851/Jesse_Ventura_Sues_TSA_Over_Body_Scans,_Pat_Downs.html
by ActivistPost, Before It's News, January 24, 2011, Amy Forliti,  Huffington Post/AP

MINNEAPOLIS — Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura sued the Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation Security Administration on Monday, alleging full-body scans and pat-downs at airport checkpoints violate his right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures.

Ventura is asking a federal judge in Minnesota to issue an injunction ordering officials to stop subjecting him to "warrantless and suspicionless" scans and body searches.

The lawsuit, which also names Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and TSA Administrator John Pistole as defendants, argues the searches are "unwarranted and unreasonable intrusions on Governor Ventura's personal privacy and dignity . and are a justifiable cause for him to be concerned for his personal health and well-being."

According to the lawsuit, Ventura received a hip replacement in 2008, and since then, his titanium implant has set off metal detectors at airport security checkpoints. The lawsuit said that prior to last November officials had used a non-invasive hand-held wand to scan his body as a secondary security measure.

But when Ventura set off the metal detector in November, he was instead subjected to a body pat-down and was not given the option of a scan with a hand-held wand or an exemption for being a frequent traveler, the lawsuit said.

The lawsuit said the pat-down "exposed him to humiliation and degradation through unwanted touching, gripping and rubbing of the intimate areas of his body."

It claims that under TSA's policy, Ventura will be required to either go through a full-body scanner or submit to a pat-down every time he travels because he will always set off the metal detector.

Ventura, who was Minnesota governor from 1999 through 2002 and is now the host of the television program "Conspiracy Theory," did not immediately return a phone message seeking comment.

Napolitano said in December that the new technology and the pat-downs were "objectively safer for our traveling public."

The U.S. Attorney's Office did not immediately return an e-mail message seeking comment Monday.

The TSA's website says there are nearly 500 full-body scanners in use at 78 airports. The scanners show a traveler's physical contours on a computer screen that's viewed in a private room. Faces aren't shown, and the person's identity is supposedly not known to the screener reviewing the images.

Not all travelers are selected to go through the scanners, but the TSA requires people who decline to submit to pat-downs that include checks of the inside of their thighs and buttocks.

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