July 19, 2011
The flying public has chosen its new folk hero and it is Yukari Miyamae, a 61-year-old Colorado woman who was arrested for allegedly groping a female Transportation Security Administration agent at Phoenix’s international airport.
Miyamae is accused of grabbing the left breast of an agent at a security checkpoint last Thursday and was facing a felony count of sexual abuse. After reviewing the case, prosecutors for the county declined to file felony charges against Miyamae, according to the Associated Press.
One Facebook page titled “Yukari Miyamae Legal Defense Fund” at first described Miyamae as “the ‘Rosa Parks’ of US aviation.” It later changed its description to “Support Yukari Miyamae, wrongly accused of sexually assaulting a TSA agent.” The comparison didn’t end there, though. On the “Acquit Yukari Mihamae” Facebook page, which had nearly 2,600 likes as of press time, commenter James Kress wrote, “Yukari is a 21st Century Rosa Parks!”
If the comparison is overblown, if not offensive, it seems to reflect the widespread public anger about aggressive airport pat-downs and the frustration of fliers who don’t feel they can speak out against what they see as invasive screening methods.
Since the story broke on Saturday evening, a groundswell of public support for Miyamae has emerged online. Many of the 700-plus comments on the original msnbc.com story about the altercation were also supportive of Miyamae. The commenter Bob in Oklahoma wrote, “Why is it ‘sexual assault’ when Ms. Mihamae grabs a TSA agent’s breast, but perfectly hunky-dory when the TSA agent does the same thing to a passenger? Ms. Mihamae didn’t check the agent’s diaper, did she?” The commenter was referring to a recent episode in which the TSA checked a 94-year-old woman’s adult diaper before permitting her to fly.
The “Acquit Yukari Mihamae” Facebook page has dozens of posts, most of them supportive of Miyamae. G David Hawkins wrote, “you just did to them what they’re doing to us all. you are a hero for the people, and i stand with you!!”
Steven Slater, the JetBlue flight attendant who last year became famous when he deployed an emergency chute on a grounded plane after an altercation with a passenger, said that a reverse-groping incident was bound to happen.
Slater, who had never experienced a pat-down until April of this year, said the episode was humiliating. “I was like, ‘Wow, you want to buy me a drink first?’ The guy was very gracious about it, but it was very, very thorough. There wasn’t much that went untouched.”
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Yukari Miyamae was born on June 5th, 1950 according to http://mugshots.scottsdalearizonanews.com/2011/07/yukari-miyamae.html
June 5th, 1950
6 + 5 +1+9+5+0 = 26 = her life lesson = what she is here to learn = In the news. Popular.
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using the number/letter grid:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
A B C D E F G H I
J K L M N O P Q R
S T U V W X Y Z
Where:
A = 1 J = 1 S = 1
B = 2 K = 2 T = 2
C = 3 L = 3 U = 3
D = 4 M = 4 V = 4
E = 5 N = 5 W = 5
F = 6 O = 6 X = 6
G = 7 P = 7 Y = 7
H = 8 Q = 8 Z = 8
I = 9 R = 9
Yukari Miyamae
732199 4971415 62
her path of destiny = 62 = Facing her fears and overcoming them. Doing what is unpopular. Dealing with restrictions. Arrested.
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