Claire Hirschkind refused to let the TSA sexually assault her with their pre-boarding pat down. The cost to her, go to jail, go directly to jail. Don't pass go, and don't collect $200. That's right, the cost to her for telling the TSA they weren't going to touch her body was some jail time.
Hirschkind has plenty of good reasons to not let the TSA touch her as well. She was a rape victim and she has pacemaker, but most importantly, she has Constitutional rights. Of course the TSA doesn't agree. Of course the pacemaker means extra precautions need to be taken, but Hirschkind's requests beyond that weren't unreasonable either. She said the TSA could pat her down on the condition they didn't touch her breasts. The rest is an unbelievable tale of the Scrooge known as the TSA locking a woman up for Christmas all because they weren't allowed access to a woman's breasts.
"I can't go through because I have the equivalent of a pacemaker in me," she said.
Hirschkind said because of the device in her body, she was led to a female TSA employee and three Austin police officers. She says she was told she was going to be patted down.
"I turned to the police officer and said, 'I have given no due cause to give up my constitutional rights. You can wand me,'" and they said, 'No, you have to do this,'" she said.
Hirschkind agreed to the pat down, but on one condition.
"I told them, 'No, I'm not going to have my breasts felt,' and she said, 'Yes, you are,'" said Hirschkind.
When Hirschkind refused, she says that "the police actually pushed me to the floor, (and) handcuffed me. I was crying by then. They drug me 25 yards across the floor in front of the whole security."
Unbelievable. I remind you these types of things are supposed to be happening in America where you have a Fourth Amendment right.
