Former wrestler Jesse Ventura apparently does not mind it in the ring but when it comes to TSA’s pat-down procedures, he’s against it. So much so he is suing the agency.
Ventura in a law suit asked for an injunction from a Minnesota federal judge, calling the TSA’s updated security measures unconstitutional, violating Fourth Amendment rights to freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures.
The former Minnesota governor underwent hip replacement surgery three years ago. He was subjected to a pat down when his titanium hip set off a metal detector. He calls it “the definition of an unlawful sexual assault.”
Ventura goes further to condemn the 500 full-body scanners operating in more than 78 airports.
He claims these devices condone “unlawful video voyeurism” displaying “detailed, three-dimensional images of the subjects’ body through and under clothing, including private and sensitive areas of the body."
Ventura travels frequently as the host of Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura. He says in the lawsuit the new measures have forced him to abandon commercial flight rather than suffer “humiliation and degradation” at the hands of the TSA, says a report on the Peter Greenburg site.
By David Wilkening
