TSA Videos VINDICATE Meg McLain!

Listening to her speak, I don’t think Meg was lying. She seemed to really believe everything she was saying. Yet the video clearly contradicts pretty much every “coloring detail” she offers. The core facts – she was selected for Naked Scanner, declined Naked Scanner, declined pat-down, was escorted out – they are all there.

Her additional details are all absent. No grabbing by the arm. No dozen cops and dozen TSA agents. No handcuffed to chair. No “I was there for an hour”. No “I was the only one selected”. No “ripping up my ticket in my face while I was handcuffed to the chair”. All of her coloring detail is flatly refuted by the video.

I think this is very instructive as to the reliability of eyewitness testimony. This incident alone should spur all police to want video of their actions. The next time someone whips out a cell phone camera – don’t run over and confront them, you might just need the evidence they are gathering. (and if you don’t agree with that, maybe you should give up on being a cop – we don’t need any dirty cops out there.)

What do you mean the videos vindicate HER? It vindicates the TSA because pretty much NONE of what she said happened according to the video.

Vindicates her? She lies from the very beginning.

If you don’t like flying, don’t fly. If you don’t lilke TSA, lying about how they treat you isn’t going to bring them down.

You should ashamed of yourself.

I don’t like anal cavity searches, but if ever the TSA finds it necessary to search my anal cavity, I’m going to submit. After all, I do have a choice: I can bend over for the TSA and be rewarded with my flight, or I can drive. That’s a choice, right? Bend over or drive. Why can’t you anarchist freaks understand what a _choice_ is? No one is forcing you to get on that plane! And besides, remember that all of this is for the common good. Oh, I forgot. You believe that individuals _own_ themselves and therefore no one else can make force their rules or rulers upon you. Well, phooey on your logical and moral consistency. Me and my fellow compliant fliers will have none of your silly talk.

The fact is the TSA are using the threat and reality of RAPE to force people to choose to be irradiated and exposed to cancer causing rays so the TSA rapists can enjoy lots of porno they can masturbate to or strangers whose gonads they can fondle.

FACT: they dig doing this to women while their husbands are watching.

FACT: it is rape.

The choice the TSA subhumans hold out is the same as the choice between being shot or sodomized at gun point.

All TSA agents must be indicted for RAPE or for aiding and abetting a rapist.

You know what these guys at TSA do when they’re done sexually assaulting women they feel up?

They keep the gloves they use and trade them for each other to sniff, catching scent from the women whose crotches they fondle.

They stand around during breaks, sniffing them and laughing. Don’t ask how I know but it is NOT heresay. This is FACT.

Congressmen have to know this WILL happen to their wives! Their daughters! Their granddaughters. The TSA monsters are psychopathic sexual sadists.

On the day of the protest against TOTAL SEXUAL ASSAULT, go through the pat down with a full bladder and bowels and let them both go the second the TSA maggot touches your gonads. By the 20th time this happens, they’ll get the message.

Following up on my comments above, I suggest that everyone here voicing support for the TSA’s efforts to keep us safe needs to go to tsacavityprobe.com and sign the petition _demanding_ an apology from Ms. McLain. It’s only a matter of time before the TSA implements cavity examination and does so for our own good. The sooner we can put Ms. McLain’s shameful demonstration of “individual sovereignty” behind us, the sooner we can get on with flying safely again.

The people that believe McCain have apparently never been in an airport or already have their minds made up, facts be damned. In neither video does a Police officer approach her and the TSA doesn’t carry handcuffs, I can’t remember, does she say who cuffs her? Watch the TSA officer’s hands. She’s calm and obviously just trying to explain things to McCain, whose hands are flying a mile a minute. Most of the people in the second video are hardly paying attention to her and are probably there because let’s face it, that’s what low level bureaucrats do. You need seven witnesses because you’ll end up with some pathetic nut case lying to make a point. Clearly despite what her ego might think otherwise she wasn’t picked because she was “hot”. The guy in front of her was no Mr. Universe. Say what you will about TSA and their procedures but you haven’t done your credibility any favors here.

Well, I just spent a couple of hours watching the videos above and listening to Meg’s interviews at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJGvsAgpfig and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPQJYxLlZn4. I also found this post-video article: http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/juice/2010/11/full_body_scanners_video_from_meg_mclains.php.
In the second radio interview, recorded and broadcast after these videos were released, Meg says there was a period in-between these two videos. I went back and forth between the last minute of the first video and the first minute of the second, to try to find anything that shows additional time had passed, thereby confirming Meg’s allegation that TSA had dome some creative editing.
But I found that they do, in fact, match up.
After Meg walks off, stage-right, from video 1, we can see a tall man in a light, collared shirt follow in roughly the same direction. He’s carrying a dark laptop bag with a shoulder strap and a security container that contains a dark jacket. Given that he’s still carrying the security container, it’s a fair guess that he’s walking to a table to put all his gadgets back into his pockets, his shoes and jacket back on. you can get a good view of him at 13:00. Light hair, receding hairline where he parts on the right.
Video 2 starts with Meg walking in from stage-left. Cue to 1:03 in this video to see the man, now with his jacket on and bag-strap over his shoulder, walking across the bottom-left corner of the view. Same light shirt, dark jacket, light hair and receding hairline.
So if Meg was handcuffed, it was in the location where she was hidden in video 2. The videos do seem to be back-to-back.

But there are other concerning things that can be seen. Firstly, how does a small, crying woman warrant such “calling all units” action? Meg enters frame at 1:08. She’s walking calmly, her hands in her back pockets. At 1:14, she clasps her hands in front of her. Either she’s cold or she’s nervous. She’s making no threatening gestures and she’s even smaller than the small, female security guard at her side. She’s listening, nodding and follows direction.
Once she’s ushered into the sitting area at 1:32, watch and count how many guard surround her – I count not less than FIVE guards arriving in eight seconds! That’s six, total. Three wander away after a bit, and three stay. And we need three because…?
Skipping to video 2, one is forced to wonder why a slight woman, whose bags have no-doubt been thoroughly searched by this moment, now warrant EIGHT security agents? It’s clear from her body language that she was no threat and quite nervous or scared, but at 6:10 it’s a regular circus. I’d suggest that this was for intimidation; I really can’t think of another reason.
The other thing that I find unnecessarily demeaning is that in 25 minutes, Meg doesn’t seem to have been given back her shoes, even at the end when they were clearly leading her somewhere else. That seems petty.

Meanwhile, do you want to see the invasiveness that Meg was protesting?? Watch the unfortunate woman who enters the porn-o-graph at 4:50! Standing there with her arms in the air as if she’s being held up — but don’t worry, they’re just taking a naked picture of her — then she still gets a rather thorough, semi-raunchy, 20+ second pat-down anyway! But that’s not enough! They then rub her hands with a cloth and test the cloth, most likely for residue from gunpowder or other explosives.

And it’s worse for foreigners. Full fingerprinting, plus photograph, as if we’ve been arrested. What’s more, this procedure happens ON EXIT too, with portable, criminal-processing devices at the departure gate.
Last time I flew the the USA, I was “randomly” selected at the boarding gate for EVERY ONE of my ten flights in that trip. They even opened a gift-wrapped item I had bought at Gucci which has, of course, already been scanned at security.

Edward Falzon
That does appear to be he same man, though he followed directly behind in the first video, and then arrives over a minute after Meg in the second.

Of course he took time to put on his jacket and such, though I am curious as to why he left the line with the tray his clothes were in. That’s certainly not a standard thing to do. Perhaps he himself was also going to another location with the agent who follows him? You must admit that is rather odd for one to take the tray away with their possessions.

Any who, there is no way to know where he goes in between the two videos, but he doesn’t just show up directly behind, so at the very least we know these videos cover two locations NOT directly next to each other.

That being said, there are far more things that change between the videos, particularly with regards to the agents who accompany Meg herself.

Well another pathalogical liar held to be something she’s not. Well america one thing for sure. If the video was edited, there’s no proof of that. But listen to Meg and judge the incident by what you see verses what you hear coming out of Meg’s mouth and the idiots that continue to attempt to make TSA look like they did anything wrong. Another thing, when are we’re gonna be satisfied? When something terrible happen and a bunch of innocent kids or adult get hurt. I bet you if you dig a bit further, you may find a video of Meg being really searched in a way TSA would never search a person. So when you’re think you’re grander than the system you always makes a fool of yourself. Oh by the way, what is she 98 lbs soak and wet. Unattractive by far. Stop you damn lying.

actually the tsa does have control over the camera angles especially if they have a secondary screening area… the image is clearly cropped… or are we to believe that the ‘port authority’ is so inept they wouldnt have a time stamp on their security footage for an airport… take your pick… either the tsa cropped the footage (by the way.. tsa has been slowly getting more and more control over all aspects of security at airports lately) or the port authority has the security protocol of a kids tree fort..

I am not sure what Meg’s motivations were, but she is actually helping the TSA by distracting people from the bigger picture. The way I see it, these searches are clearly unconstitutional. How does the TSA get around article 6 of the constitution which requires probable cause to search someone? The millions of passengers who are searched do not provide probable cause to TSA to be searched. Part of being illegally searched is being scanned, patted down or having your personal effects, ie, carry on baggage, searched without probable cause. UNCONSTITUTIONAL! The fact that there are a million muslems with explosive underpants waiting to board a plane does not justify searching everybody, only those who exhibit probable cause. The right to privacy is not covered by the constitution, but the right to not be searched is. The right to not be searched trumps the right of others to have a safe flight. Otherwise, the terrorists have won, they have caused our own government to violate the rights considered inviolate by the founders. Those who use the idiotic notion that “if you don’t like it, don’t fly” is the same as “if you don’t like the unfair taxes imposed by King George, leave the country” or “if you don’t like the misuse of highway funds, don’t drive” or “if you don’t like the fees they charge for national parks, don’t use the parks”. All idiotic logic. Flying is a major form of transportation and I don’t have to give up flying because I don’t agree with unconstitutional searches.

“I am not sure what Meg’s motivations were, but she is actually helping the TSA by distracting people from the bigger picture. The way I see it, these searches are clearly unconstitutional”

You hit it on the nail, and quite frankly its the same ole multiple prongs thing, we will let you attack this one and maybe this one and maybe that one..and see how helpful we are to you (even in story people were “helpful”..on possible edited video too) Oh and even more importantly dont trust your eyes (And brain!) over what your told for you might get rid of a bunch of liars and worse on a permament basis.