Fox News host was put on ?no fly list?
Paul Joseph Watson
Fox News host Geraldo Rivera revealed today how he was ?manually raped? by a TSA worker while traveling to Afghanistan, explaining how he had been persecuted by the federal agency for falsely appearing on the infamous ?no fly list?.
Rivera appeared on Fox and Friends to discuss yesterday?s story about an eighteen-month-old child appearing on the TSA?s no fly list. The parents of the toddler said that after they were "humiliated, embarrassed and picked on" by TSA agents at Ft Lauderdale Airport, they were marched off the plane, and ordered to stand in the terminal for half an hour.
However, Rivera devoted most of the segment to his own TSA nightmare story.
?The last time I flew to Afghanistan I got manually raped by a guy who -- the scanner wasn't working,? said Rivera, before adding that his ?junk was junked? by a TSA screener.
"This guy, it seemed to me, was getting off on it"?And the more and the tighter I got and the angrier I got," said Rivera. "You know, he just wanted to be a little more intimate."
Rivera explained how his trouble with the TSA began when he got put on a ?no fly list? and was continually subjected to ?enhanced interrogation and search? every time he took a flight.
"And I was so frustrated. I called the TSA, and I called and I called. I went on television. I exposed them, I embarrassed them. I said, 'can't ya?' And they just could not remove my name from the computer that had the no-fly list."
Rivera?s problems with the TSA may actually have stemmed from the fact that he criticized the agency.
As we previously documented, allegations that the TSA has created a watch list of individuals who criticize the agency as a form of collective punishment are cognizant with reports of journalists being unnecessarily harassed. CNN journalist Drew Griffin was put on a TSA watch list immediately after he filed reports critical of the organization back in 2008.
In November 2010, we reported the story of how radio host Owen JJ Stone was told by a TSA screener that his pat down would include the screener putting his hands down Stone's pants. The TSA worker directly patted down his testicles, penis and backside while his hand was inside Stone's pants. Stone was initially embarrassed to reveal the full scope of the groping but related the details of what amounted to nothing less than outright sexual molestation.
Also in November 2010, blogger Erin Chase went public to reveal how she literally had her vagina groped by a TSA screener, who touched both her labia as well as her buttocks and breasts during a pat down.
Former Miss USA Susie Castillo also revealed how a TSA worker touched her vagina during a pat down at Dallas-Fort Worth airport in April 2011 after she refused to go through a body scanner.
Rivera added that he thought ?there is a lot of merit in people who say it should be re-privatized,? referring to a recently passed bill that allows airports to evict TSA screeners and replace them with private security.
Senator Rand Paul, who himself had a tense run-in with the loathed federal agency, has also recently launched a campaign to abolish the TSA, backed by a promise to introduce legislation that will ?END the TSA and get the government's hands back to only stealing our wallets instead of groping toddlers and grandmothers."
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Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a regular fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show and Infowars Nightly News.
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In November 2010, I was fired by Delta airlines because a stupid TSA agent treated me ( "a ground worker") as if I was a flight attendant trying to board a plane with luggage without going through proper security.....
Which is just plain stupid because I had NO luggage, and never should have been stopped.
I went through employee security the same as I had done everyday for FOUR (4) YEARS...just like everyone else.
When the second TSA moron, doing the search of my purse, started going through my wallet, cash and credit cards, I instinctively reached for my wallet and asked "What are you looking for?"
to which HE created a huge scene....
As my supervisors came out, one by one, the TSA agents surrounded them and WHISPERED whatever lies they told, making sure I couldn't hear what was being said....
After tearing my purse and wallet apart, and refusing to tell me what they were looking for, I was stripped of my badge and sent home to stew for THREE WEEKS before a Delta Airline 'manager' called me asking me to "resign!"
I was terminated when I refused to resign for doing nothing wrong, and Delta never bothered to view the video, talk to me, or look into what happened, other than to talk to the lying TSA agents trying to cover their own asses.
FOIA has blatently ignored my requests for the video/file that proves I was completely compliant and innocent of their accusations.
DHS is STILL following me around/watching me...
I don't have to report address relocation to the department of motor vehicles because DHS records it for me before I get there!
And NOT ONE LAWYER IN ATLANTA GEORGIA would step up to assist an innocent person to clear their name, not one.
Every lawyer contacted refused the case.
I should mention that while I was being detained, my possessions searched, and my one question denied an answer.... the TSA agent that singled me out of the line was standing by watching.
Using his lips and no voice, HE APOLOGIZED..
and offered me a chair to sit...
HE STILL HAS A JOB.
NO ONE IS WATCHING HIM OR MONITORING HIS MOVEMENT IN THIS "FREE" COUNTRY. lol.
I would love to hear from a lawyer with guts who's willing to truly defend an innocent person.
Does such a thing exist anymore??
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