Go, John Tyner, Go! Don't Let Them Touch Your Junk!
Wow, I'm just looking at the news for the first time after my Great Moving Adventure, and what do I see? Some guy named John Tyner--who I guess is already a household name to you?--has captured the whole experience of refusing to submit to a TSA body scan on his cell phone, including what I'm sure are going to be immortal words: "You touch my junk and I'm going to have you arrested."
I have a feeling this is big (this event, no comment on his junk, though if this weren't Ricochet, I'd make that joke for sure). A quick scan of the commentary suggests everyone is already making the Rosa Parks connection.
Next step: T-shirts for flying that say "TSA: DON'T TOUCH MY JUNK." I'll wear one. Bet someone could make a fortune selling them outside of airports.
Go John Tyner!
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Aug '10
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Go John Tyner! I saw this first thing on the news this morning and I think it's great and it's about time. What really gets my blood boiling is when I consider it happening to my wife and children.
Enough is enough.
Aug '10
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See-through scanners, the perfect metaphor for the Apocalypse (Greek word meaning 'a parting of the veil').
Judgment Day approaches and all must be revealed beforehand.
"And there is not a created thing not manifest before Him, but all things are naked and open to His eyes -- with whom is our reckoning." (Hebrews 4:13)
Give up your junk, John Tyner!
Jul '10
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This just tells the terrorists where they can hide the explosives.
Jun '10
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Abolish the TSA and allow private security firms to run airline security. Each airport can be responsible for its own procedures and methodology. We can pay for the cost as part of the ticket price. There, problem fixed.
May '10
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Somehow, in Israel they don't do all thins and again, somehow, their planes don't blow up. Now they are a LOT closer to the bad guys.
The TSA screens the pilots for crying out loud. If we don't trust the pilots not to take bombs on board, why do we trust them to fly the planes at all? Last I checked, the use of planes as bombs themselves took down two skyscrapers and half the Pentagon. What am I missing here?
May '10
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He's the anti-Favre.
Sep '10
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Normally, I'd ask the TSA for dinner and dancing first.
Sep '10
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no comment on his junk, though if this weren't Ricochet, I'd make that joke for sure)
I'm beginning to think that the Ricochet femme fatales are more than a much for we poor defenseless man cave hugging males of Ricochet.
Jul '10
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Janet Napolitano is doing more to kill air travel than Bin Laden could have dreamed. Border guards during the Third Reich didn't go this far. I used to think Eric Holder was the most incompetent member of this sorry administration, but he's in her rear view mirror and disappearing fast.
Aug '10
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But, but the TSA was just approved to go into collective bargaining and join one of the many public sector employee unions that have done so much to insure our security by creating infinite job tenure, gilt-edged pensions and insurance programs.
We are going to miss an opportunity to see massive overspending on dubious equipment with the typical personnel attitude issues combined with intrusive search and seizure authority . What a country !! Only in America would we do our best to replicate what was once a memory of the Soviet border guard intruding on all of our future travel, vacation plans, business trips, and reduced services and higher prices on all airlines. Somebody should hire Yakov Smirnoff to be spokesperson for TSA.
Oct '10
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Quoting Jonah Goldberg's NR column of January 6:
Shlomo Dror, an Israeli air-security expert, had it right in 2002 when he said: "The United States does not have a security system; it has a system for bothering people."
May '10
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As I said in Nick's thread, I'm not sure enough people will stop flying to make the difference.
May '10
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The first TSA agent that touches my genitals gets kneed. Who do I call for bail money?
Sep '10
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Say that your special operations name is "Bourne. Jason Bourne." and see what their reaction is.
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Don't miss: TSO saying "heads up, got a cutie for you" (America: How can you even be dreaming of putting up with this? Have you lost your marbles?) and #TSAslogans on Twitter:
It's civil disobedience time, my fellow Americans. This has gone too far. Anyone at TSA tries to touch my junk, I'll treat 'em just like anyone else who tries to touch my junk, especially in a crowded market in Istanbul.
May '10
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I agree, Claire. If one or a few people refused to be screened this way at an airport, then they would be denied passage or, at worst, arrested (regardless of whether or not a law was broken). If dozens of people simultaneously refused and it made the news, the resulting wave of civil disobedience might force the TSA's hand.
One further point: If the TSA is permitted to grope and oggle airline passengers for the expressed purpose of defending against terrorism, then it's only a matter of time before similar measures become standard at public events and a growing variety of settings.
Edited on Nov 15, 2010 at 12:08pmSep '10
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Claire Berlinski, Ed.: Don't miss: TSO saying "heads up, got a cutie for you" (America: How can you even be dreaming of putting up with this? Have you lost your marbles?) and #TSAslogans on Twitter:
It's civil disobedience time, my fellow Americans. This has gone too far. Anyone at TSA tries to touch my junk, I'll treat 'em just like anyone else who tries to touch my junk, especially in a crowded market in Istanbul. · Nov 15 at 11:44am
If the President of the United States wants the American citizen to submit to this then let him televise he, his wife and his two daughters going through it.
Jul '10
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Would it be considered inappropriate to ask for the TSA agent's number afterwards? I'm flying out of the country next week and that could easily be the most entertaining and unlawful thing I've experienced all year.
Though this summer a woman I had just met assaulted me, then threw her underwear at me in public...That'd be a close runner-up to picking up an airport guard.
Oct '10
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I'm looking at the TSA website and it seems the pat-down alternative to the screening you are allowed to have a family member/companion accompany you to the private room you may request for the pat down. It makes no mention, but I'm assuming you have the right to request the person patting you down is the same sex? Or is that a regulation already? I couldn't find it anywhere so I'm wondering - Even though I'm willing to suffer just about any indignity or patdown (including the possible touching of my junk) the idea of my wife, sister and/or mother going through the same thing makes my blood boil.
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Jonathan Matthew Gilbert: Would it be considered inappropriate to ask for the TSA agent's number afterwards? I'm flying out of the country next week and that could easily be the most entertaining and unlawful thing I've experienced all year.
Though this summer a woman I had just met assaulted me, then threw her underwear at me in public...That'd be a close runner-up to picking up an airport guard. · Nov 15 at 9:08pm
Still dining out on that story, I see. You need to come visit me in Istanbul for some new material. Apartment's plenty big enough for houseguests!