Texas House passes bill banning TSA airport "groping"

(Reuters) - The Texas House of Representatives late on Thursday approved a bill that would make invasive pat-downs at Texas airports a crime, after a former Miss USA said she felt "molested" at the Dallas/Fort Worth airport last month.

Transportation Security Administration agents could be charged with a misdemeanor crime, face a $4,000 fine and one year in jail under the measure.

The proposal would classify any airport inspection that "touches the anus, sexual organ, buttocks, or breast of another person including through the clothing, or touches the other person in a manner that would be offensive to a reasonable person" as an offense of sexual harassment under official oppression.

The measure's author, Republican David Simpson, said: "Indecent groping searches when innocent travelers are seeking access to airports and public buildings would be outlawed under this bill."

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/13/us-tsa-groping-texas-idUSTRE74C54E20110513

I am shocked this is coming from Texas.

It'll be interesting to see what happens if it becomes state law. I imagine that the feds would try to override it somehow.

Hell, I'm an ass man, but sexual organ? More like a couple of big muscles that help you walk and squat...and sit down. Just because someone gets turned on by a butt doesn't make that butt a sexual organ.

"Not in your jurisdiction"

Go back to passing guns on campus or killing education spending you morons...