

^ "Oceanside man ejected from airport for refusing security check"." 'Don't touch my junk' passenger sparks revolt against airport searches". ^ Kim Zetter (November 16, 2010), "TSA Investigating 'Don't Touch My Junk' Passenger", Wired."A rallying cry for security-wary passengers: don't 'touch my junk' ".


Kaminer described Krauthammer's suggestion that screening should be conducted on the "profile of the airline attacker is. A columnist for The Atlantic, Wendy Kaminer, argued that the intentions of those, such as Krauthammer, who were criticizing the indiscriminate screening of passengers were actually promoting racial profiling. Michael Kinsley weighed in on Politico in a column entitled "Go ahead, touch my junk", in which he defended the TSA against criticism from Tyner and others. At least two "Don't Touch My Junk" songs have since been released, one of which was written by Houston, Texas, musician Danny Kristensen and was based on a James Cotton song, "Cut You Loose". Support and criticism Ĭonservative columnist Charles Krauthammer subsequently wrote an editorial in which he expressed support for Tyner and described "Don't Touch My Junk" as the "anthem of the modern man, the Tea Party patriot, the late-life libertarian, the midterm election voter" and even compared it to the American patriotic phrase "Dont Tread On Me". Most of the comments posted on the video were supportive of Tyner. He subsequently uploaded a video onto YouTube based on his experience, which went viral and received 70,000 views by the end of the same day. In response to being asked by a reporter if he thought he looked like a terrorist, Tyner said “No, I'm a 6-foot-1, white man". He declined and was threatened with prosecution, as well as a fine of $10,000. An official then demanded that he submit to a search regardless. The TSA refused to allow him to pass without this intimate search and so he declined to travel and got a refund on his ticket. The phrase was inadvertently coined in 2010 by passenger John Tyner, an Oceanside, California computer programmer who released an audio recording from San Diego International Airport in which he told TSA agents: "If you touch my junk, I'm going to have you arrested." Tyner had initially chosen to undergo a pat-down rather than going through a full-body scan machine because of health concerns and the fact that he viewed the machines as a threat to privacy.
