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Breast cancer survivor forced into invasive patdown by TSA, even after submitting to backscatter imaging scan
"My wife Lori Dorn, who has breast cancer, tells her story about a TSA agent at JFK on Friday who required her to submit to a pat down due to her breast implants, even though she had an identification card for the implants that is used to prove that the implants are an actual medical device. The TSA agent would not let Lori show her the card." (boingboing.net) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
You can allways choose not to go through.
And many do just that, Douglas. What has that cost our economy? How many more have died in car accidents because they choose to make long drives, rather than face the humiliation of being groped in front of their kids by a pervert with a badge? How many cancer patiences have been humilitated by STUPID TSA agents. Go to the top of this tread, Douglas, and read.
I agree it is an imperfect system. However untill we allow the TSA to reasearch everyone entering the airport and allow them to profile and pass judgement before they enter the screening area then they are forced to treat everyone as a terrorist. You cannot have your cake and eat it too.
As long as we have the current management and staff, the TSA will remain an imperfect system. This is a classic example of kingdom building at the federal level. They don't feel the need to answer to any higher authority. They continually stomp all over the Bill of Rights. We both know there are systems that are far less intrusive that could be used, but it would mean the job could be done with fewer people and, the keyword here, less money. OUR money. We are actually charged to be violated!! So, take your cake cliche' someplace else. In this case, if the government would get out of the way we could have both.
The Bill of Rights allows you to turn around and not go through.
Oh contrare. Many a person has tried just that, only to be detained without cause, harrassed and intiminated. It's obvious you work for the government, or even worse, the TSA. Otherwise, you would not be vigorously defending their crimes.
Would someone please pass the koolaide to Douglas
I thought that your Bill of Rights said something about being proven guilty. I like how you apply the word crime when it suits your agenda, how about applying the Bill of Rights to everyone.
Would you re-write that last comment and try to make sense of it.
A court of law decides whether or not a crime has occured. Your quote "you would not be vigorously defending their crimes." I am not defending them. I am simply stating the facts. As with most things that humans do over time through trial and error we usually make it better and or safer. Cars were made without seatbelts, motorcycles were manufactured before helmets.
I understand your frustration, be thankful that we live in a country where you are allowed to even discuss imperfections in government. I have always been a proponent of less government. You claim they have commited crimes? What crimes have they been found guilty of?
I understand your frustration, be thankful that we live in a country where you are allowed to even discuss imperfections in government. I have always been a proponent of less government. You claim they have commited crimes? What crimes have they been found guilty of?
I have witnessed female agents, with questionable sexual preference, pick young, well endowed female passengers for random pat down screening. This agent would place her opened palmed hand on the breast of the shocked passenger. It so happpen that particular day, I had a female FO that fit her personal preference profile. When she began the same groping technique on my FO, I forcefully called a halt to it. A female police officer, with the same questionable orientation as the agent told me to step back and allow the assault to continue. I refused. I demanded that the video tapes of the area be reviewed to prove my point. They had the unmitigated gall to tell me the security area is not surveiled by camera. When I explained I would testify in a court of law that the agent was assaulting passengers, the agent and cop slowly de-escalated. Try to fight the TSA on stuff like this. Janet Napolitano, who also swings from the other side of the plate would laugh at it. So, yeah, Douglas there are crimes being commited, they will never be prosecuted. Kinda, like the brown shirts back in Germany around the 1935 time frame.
All you have to do is file a police report. You dont need a police officer to file one.
Now you're just grasping for any excuse.