In horrifying detail, women accuse U.S. customs officers of invasive body searches

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12. I have a very common name which has been on the FAA No Fly list since

December 2001. I have had multiple guns pulled on me in an airport, repeated searches, x-rays and searches of my luggage, delays, missed flights... I even went so far as to obtain a Texas concealed weapons permit just to be able to show I passed their background check. I also did it because of talk about denying gun rights to people on the No Fly list. While I still haven’t purchased a gun, I want to preserve my right to one if I choose.

There is no due process to getting your name removed from the list yet they want to use it to substitute as probable cause that I have done something wrong. The story I got back then was that a terrorist from South Yemen used my common name as an alias once. Not sure I even believe that one.

I have never been asked to undergo a strip search, but if they did it would be refused and a suit would be filed. I do not recognize my country any longer because I did not grow up in an authoritarian state!