TSA has reviewed the incident and determined that our officers followed proper current screening procedures in conducting a modified pat-down on the child.
Don’t worry we investigated it ourselves and I promise we didn’t do anything wrong. No really. Not a thing.
I do know that if I had been the parent I would be in jail now and all three TSA agents would be in the ER.
Didn’t you hear? The War on Terror is over: http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/war-terror-over_640620.html
Now it’s just old people, kids, and American citizens that get extra attention and prejudicial treatment by TSA goons.
Oh wait, that’s the same groups they targeted before, out of their demented desire to make prevention as ineffective as possible. :jester:
Much as it pains me to admit it, the terrorists won.
They succeeded in changing the way of life in America while they continue their preferred stone age existence in their countries. We victimize US citizens in the name of “safety” and they call for and get blood for any slight against a Koran. Worst of all, our government helped them win.
Might as well bring on the trendy Muslim restaurants for us to eat in.
That is when a TSO told me they would shut down the entire airport, cancel all flights, if my daughter was not restrained. It was then they declared my daughter a “high-security-threat”.
Sometimes you have to call their bluff and let them explain to the press that a 4 year old and a grandmother shut down the airport.
I have told my boss that it is just a matter of time before he has to come bail me out of a TSA gulag. I fly too often and have too much of a backbone to be compatible with these ass clowns.
99.99% of the TSA people I come into contact with are great people with crappy jobs, and the other 0.01% are complete wastes of humanity.
I agree. I’ve not had too much problem with the TSA despite flying 6-10 trips per year. While I might agree the some elements of my lifestyle have changed (i.e. I can now only take 4 oz of KY on my trips to San Fran), I can’t say that my way of life has changed all that much.
Coming back from SHOT Show, the body scanner found something wrong with my right knee. So they said they will need to pat down my right knee, and did. Well, I was wearing basketball shorts…lol
Stating the obvious, the former head of security for El Al commented that we do not have an airport security system, we have a passenger harassment system…
+1, sort off. In my limited experience when I was working as Checkpoint Security only about 60-80% of TSA employees were there to do the best job they can under the most trying circumstances. They do their best to provide “Customer Service” while following the rules and regulations as imposed by the Feds.
Unfortunately, the rest of them are a waste of space who are only in it purely for the pay. They fit the mold of your typical ROAD-type Government Employee. These guys have no business dealing with the public because they not only lack the intelligence to be able to make decisions based on the circumstances, they don’t have the common sense to guide those decisions even if they did decide to make any.
The even more unfortunate thing is what they do and the rules they follow are founded on actual incidents. Blame the terrorists, especially the islamic “fundamentalists” who have been known to strap explosives on children or hide them in their shoes. It’s just like the criminal laws we have to follow. They were created in response to some idiot who decided to do something immoral and/or illegal which gave someone the cause to push a bill into a law.
Can you imagine what laws we would have if all those criminals and mobsters in the “Roaring 1930s” had used Fencing Sabres instead of sawed-off shotguns, Thompson machineguns, and BARs?
There is a reason why I have not flown in a very long time. JM2CW.
By that you do admit it has changed to some degree and you’ve accepted it without pause.
Mabe something else new that’s not too much of a life changer will slide as easily too.
TSA has reviewed the incident and determined that our officers followed proper current screening procedures in conducting a modified pat-down on the child.
Can we then conclude that common sense, common courtesy, common decency and a little bit of tenderness for an upset child are not in the current screening procedures?
Anyways, disregard my derail. The general population sees TSA in the same light as firefighters and policemen, just another public safety organization. They dont realize that they are unnecessary, and that through an airport privatization of security we could see not only safer methods, but also less obtrusive and more customer friendly. We have a government institution whos only function is to violate the 4th ammendment, and yet the sheeple dont care very much until it happens to their 4 year old child.
I was shocked when after 9/11 Bush explained the TSA and its procedures were to “make Americans feel safe.” Not to protect Americans, not to catch terrorists, but to harass us until we feel we must be safer. And everything that has transpired since only emphasizes that harassment is the goal, not protection.
Conditioning. Thats all the TSA is there to do. Condition people to believe its ok to accept radiation poisoning, be groped, fondled, and molested.
First it was the Airports, now they’re moving to the hwys…whats next? Malls? Banks?
I will not fly, nor will i submit to be molested by anyone when i’ve done nothing wrong.
Theres a difference when a criminal element is thrown into the situation (investigative detention frisk, or arrest search). And LAW ENFORCEMENT conducts those, you know…people with training (extensive background investigation, sworn to an oath)
With a name like Carlos the Jackal, I can understand why…
I fly alot and I am amazed that more people don’t opt out of the scanners. Sheeple just get corraled thru. The more amazing thing is that some places only have scanners on a few lines, and people don’t flock to the metal detector only lines.
There is the health issues with the scanners, but I have to say the main issue I have is having to stand in the damn machine in French Salute to prove I’m not dangerous.
I’m interested to see how the non-airport stuff will work. In Colorado you can carry almost everywhere, so what happens when they come across someone coming home from the range? Or the guy who keeps and AR in his trunk? What exactly are they looking for and what will they do?
