Traveling Salesman says: "62 year old ex-school teacher and member of the community in a sleepy Wisconsin town, Phyllis Dintenfass was just found guilty of assaulting a federal aviation security staff member. She squeezed the breast of the security person after she claims the security person had done the same to her.
"She claims that she had made repeated verbal efforts to tell the security person that she didn't want to be felt up. When the security person said that she wasn't feeling Phyllis up, Phyllis responded, "My husband has been feeling me up for 40 years, I know what its like to be felt up".
"But…maybe the security person was right. Lets consider the other possibilities:
"1.) Phyllis was horny. she likes breasts. We all do. She saw the opportunity and she went for it.
"2.) Phyllis is a terrorist. This really seems to be the most likely scenario. The homeland is now secure thanks to the fine judgement of our people in airport security.
"I'm sure the federal prison inmates are quite worried about the threat Phyllis will pose to their safety."
[F]ederal policy required that Phyllis Dintenfass undergo a body search. As a result, she now faces imprisonment and financial ruin because of her understandable reaction. This does nothing to protect the public from terrorism, but a great deal to reinforce the idea of illimitable federal power – which is, apparently, the entire point of the "war on terrorism."
