A female advice blogger named Amy Alkon is joining the fight against what critics are calling illegal search and seizure tactics by the Transportation Security Administration, but Alkon is calling rape.
On her blog, Alkon says she was on a routine business trip when she realized all the people in her line were being searched by the TSA. She was forced to assume the position, she says, and then a TSA agent named Thedala Magee stuck her hand between Amy's labia four times.
While sobbing loudly, Alkon yelled to the woman, “You raped me!” when the search was over, and took down her name. She then looked into filing rape charges but was advised by an attorney that she would get nowhere. The attorney said that because the agent was ordered by her boss to search airplane passengers, she was acting in good faith.
Magee has filed a defamation lawsuit against Amy because of her blog post describing the “rape” and is asking for $500,000.
“After [the agent Thedala] Magee’s assault on Ms. Alkon’s vagina and dignity, Ms. Alkon exercised her First Amendment right to recount this incident to others in person and through her blog,” writes free speech lawyer Marc Randazza who says, further, “This was not only her right — it was her responsibility.”
On her blog, Alkon says she was on a routine business trip when she realized all the people in her line were being searched by the TSA. She was forced to assume the position, she says, and then a TSA agent named Thedala Magee stuck her hand between Amy's labia four times.
While sobbing loudly, Alkon yelled to the woman, “You raped me!” when the search was over, and took down her name. She then looked into filing rape charges but was advised by an attorney that she would get nowhere. The attorney said that because the agent was ordered by her boss to search airplane passengers, she was acting in good faith.
Magee has filed a defamation lawsuit against Amy because of her blog post describing the “rape” and is asking for $500,000.
“After [the agent Thedala] Magee’s assault on Ms. Alkon’s vagina and dignity, Ms. Alkon exercised her First Amendment right to recount this incident to others in person and through her blog,” writes free speech lawyer Marc Randazza who says, further, “This was not only her right — it was her responsibility.”