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Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Who's the terrorists now, fuckers?

Kids today. They say and do the darndest things, even under the watchful eye of the Transportation Security Administration. So who knows what happens when your 4-year-old daughter gives grandma a hug at the airport security checkpoint. In addition to that peck on the cheek, a deadly weapon may have been exchanged.
A few readers have pointed to a story on Facebook, posted by a Montana mom who was flying home from Kansas with her two young children and their grandmother.
According to the poster, she and her kids got through the checkpoint without trouble but grandma had triggered the alarm. She went through the scanner again, but the screener could not firmly ID what was setting off the alarm, and grandma was asked to have a seat and wait for a pat-down.
This is when the 4-year-old ran over to give grandma a hug:

"They made very brief contact, no longer than a few seconds. The Transportation Security Officers(TSO) who were present responded to this very simple action in the worst way imaginable.
First, a TSO began yelling at my child, and demanded she too must sit down and await a full body pat-down. I was prevented from coming any closer, explaining the situation to her, or consoling her in any way. My daughter, who was dressed in tight leggings, a short sleeve shirt and mary jane shoes, had no pockets, no jacket and nothing in her hands. The TSO refused to let my daughter pass through the scanners once more, to see if she too would set off the alarm. It was implied, several times, that my Mother, in their brief two-second embrace, had passed a handgun to my daughter.
My child, who was obviously terrified, had no idea what was going on, and the TSOs involved still made no attempt to explain it to her. When they spoke to her, it was devoid of any sort of compassion, kindness or respect. They told her she had to come to them, alone, and spread her arms and legs. She screamed, "No! I don't want to!" then did what any frightened young child might, she ran the opposite direction.
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".
Two TSOs were following her and again I was told to have no contact with my child. At this point, I was beyond upset, I disregarded what the TSO had said to me, and I ran to my daughter. I picked her up. I hugged her. I tried to comfort her...
I was forced to set my child down, they brought her into a side room to administer a pat-down, I followed. My sweet four-year-old child was shaking and crying uncontrollably, she did not want to stand still and let strangers touch her... A TSO began repeating that in the past she had "seen a gun in a teddy bear." The TSO seemed utterly convinced my child was concealing a weapon, as if there was no question about it. Worse still, she was treating my daughter like she understood how dangerous this was, as if my daughter was not only a tool in a terrorist plot, but actually in on it. The TSO loomed over my daughter, with an angry grimace on her face, and ordered her to stop crying. When my scared child could not do so, two TSOs called for backup saying "The suspect is not cooperating." The suspect, of course, being a frightened child. They treated my daughter no better than if she had been a terrorist...
A third TSO arrived to the scene, and showed no more respect than the first two had given. All three were barking orders at my daughter, telling her to stand still and cease crying. When she did not stop crying on command, they demanded we leave the airport. They claimed they could not safely check my daughter for dangerous items if she was in tears. I will admit, I lost my temper.
Finally, a manager intervened. He determined that my child could, in fact, be cleared through security while crying. I was permitted to hold her while the TSO checked her body. When they found nothing hidden on my daughter, they were forced to let us go, but not until after they had examined my ID and boarding passes for a lengthy amount of time. When we arrived at our gate, I noticed that the TSOs had followed us through the airport. I was told something was wrong with my boarding pass and I would have to show it to them again. Upon seeing the TSO, my daughter was thrown into hysterics. Eventually, we were able to board our flight."


After reading this story, we contacted the TSA to see whether or not the TSOs followed the correct procedure for handling this situation. Here is what the agency had to say:
"TSA has recently implemented modified screening procedures of children 12 and under that further reduce — though not eliminate — the need for a physical pat-down for children. In this case, however, the child had completed screening but had contact with another member of her family who had not completed the screening process. TSA has reviewed the incident and determined that our officers followed proper current screening procedures in conducting a modified pat-down on the child."

SOURCE
Thanks to Murray for the the tip.

12 comments:

  1. Find out their names, and home addresses. Out them and what they did.
    Sic Semper Tyranis.

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  2. People need to start calling their bluff.
    You're threatening to shut the airport down? OK...let's see you do it.

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  3. The TSA is nothing but a band of losers with a government badge.

    Fuck the TSA and Fuck Obama too.
    Not necessarily in that order.

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  4. When is it time to start shooting? I know where to start.

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  5. A full airport and no one with enough testicular fortitude to step and and tell these fools what they were doing was wrong....smh

    Stand up for yourselves and those in need, especially when the victim is a freaking child.

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  6. The people are being made to"OBEY" big brother.
    All attempts to escape will be futile, "YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED".

    Hey obama.....assimilate ....this, shit for brains

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  7. Assholes. I refuse to fly because of the Gestapo they call the TSA. If it were my kid, I'd have gone to jail after bitch slapping the agent.

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  8. I imagine that someday someone is going to figure out that to screw with TSA they can start a movement in which they get other folks, plenty of other folks, to rub their clothing and carry on bags down with harmless and legal substances that would trigger alerts or that they would all carry devices that seemed suspicious even though totally legally and okay to carry aboard aircraft. Just think of 20 or 30 people on a flight doing that.

    I am not condoning that nor even suggesting anyone consider it - I am just imagining it will happen. When and if it does happen, I also imagine that the result will be that one day, TSA will be forced to close down several terminals at airports, or even whole airports nationwide because of nonexistent threats to security caused by this movement. They will look like mega assholes and the uproar caused by the airlines and air passengers, after that day, will close TSA down or certainly crimp their style (which is the style of tyrants).

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  9. Glenn B said...

    Ron Paul would back you.

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  10. Fuck these blue shirted assholes. You all realize that they are simply poorly trained, low paid, even lower IQ'ed control freaks that think the blue shirt and crackerjack badge gives them some sort of authority. Have you ever seen a TSA agent in uniform outside the concourse? Of course not, they wouldn't DARE step foot outside the safe confines of the airport. Doesn't matter if some of them are actually ok people, because none of them stand up and stop these abuses. And let me tell you, all it takes are a few good MEN standing up to these fucks, and they will back down. I find it disgraceful that no one stood up for that child and her mother. This is EXACTLY the kind of thing that should boil the blood of every patriot/parent/human fucking being that reads it. Please, Lord God, let the zombie apocalypse begin, so I can start shooting all these stupid motherfuckers in the FACE!!!

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