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Woman Allegedly Prevented From Boarding Flight Because TSA Didn’t Like Her ‘Attitude’

Sep. 9, 2012 8:21pm

An angry airline passenger claims the Transportation Security Administration prevented her from boarding her flight not because she was a security risk, but in retaliation for her “attitude.”

She explained in the description of an accompanying YouTube video:

This was inside the terminal at the Houston airport. I was not allowed to board a plane (even though I had already been through airport security) because I drank my water instead of letting the TSA “test” it.

She added:

The TSA agent finally admitted that it wasn’t because they thought I was a security risk-it was because the TSA agent, Louis Godeaux, was mad at me!

Here is the clip, apparently shot with a cell phone:

The Huffington Post has a rough transcript:

Woman: “Do you think that I am honestly a threat…?”

Male agent: “No, no, no, but with your attitude…”

Woman: “Let me get this straight. This is retaliatory for my attitude. This is not making the airways safer. It’s retaliatory.”

Male agent: “Pretty much…yes.”

Woman: “Is that legal?”

It should be noted that the clip does not show the initial altercation, which could have involved more than just drinking water after going through security.

However, the woman admits the situation ended well.

“I was able to get on the very next flight out of [Houston, and] even managed an upgrade! (thanks United),” she wrote.

The passenger concluded: “I know this is not really news (it seems like the TSA is retaliating all the time against people), but it was a little satisfying to get that statement on video.”

(H/T: Gawker)

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Comments (113)

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  • floridareader
    Posted on September 9, 2012 at 9:46pm

    Remember, according to Princess Pelosi, Prince Harry and King Obama, good abiding citizens, war veterans and right wing extremists are terrorists. Even babies and baby bottles are dangerous inb the brilliant minds of TSA agents. Maybe the option is for all good Americans to wrap ourselves in a thousands veils, deny pat downs and X ray machines because both procedures violate our beliefs. You will see the TSA agents kissing the floor we step on.

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    • ashestoashes
      Posted on September 9, 2012 at 9:53pm

      @FLORIDA READER..I guess all that will change once Romney gets in huh?
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9yJCuafqNE

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    • floridareader
      Posted on September 9, 2012 at 10:12pm

      Ashes, you could ask him.

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    • ReallySeriouslyNoWay
      Posted on September 9, 2012 at 10:28pm

      The wonderful news here is that the TSA is now represented by a union. So the guilty here will not face any consequences.

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    • M1A2_Tanker
      Posted on September 9, 2012 at 11:49pm

      http://www.tuccille.com/blog/2008/07/eight-reasons-even-innocent-shouldnt.html

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    • BloodSweatandTears
      Posted on September 10, 2012 at 12:40am

      Remember how Andrew Breibart changed the narrative by demanding that people back up their accusations with credible sources? So when some authority pushes you, simply and politely ask what citation they are using- Ask them to cite chapter and verse. If they can’t and in this case would have been impossible, then it would have been revealed as a grudge. Demand authenticity, credibility and exact references. If the can’t reference the citation then they are abusing their authority and power. When they fail to do so, they will fold like a used napkin.

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    • pitboss
      Posted on September 10, 2012 at 2:17am

      ASHESTOASHES – Ron Paul is out of the race. Give it up!

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    • nzkiwi
      Posted on September 10, 2012 at 3:58am

      @ MIA

      That was a very interesting link. Thanks for that.

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    • bigdaddyt46
      Posted on September 10, 2012 at 6:08am

      @M1
      thanks for that link. it was very informative as well as humerous

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    • loriann12
      Posted on September 10, 2012 at 6:34am

      You have to realize something. Every time the TSA has to do a test, it costs the government money. Look up Cloward and Piven Strategy. They not only want to overload the welfare system to cause the government to go broke, they want to make the government go broke by any means possible. I looked up a chart for the National Debt. In about 2007, it was 8.5 Trillion. The Democrats took control of the House and Senate in January of 2007. It is now over 16 Trillion. In just 6 years, the Democrats have doubled the national debt, that took 200 years to reach that point.

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    • ashestoashes
      Posted on September 10, 2012 at 7:59am

      @PITBOSS..Ron Paul may be out of the race..but that doesn’t change the fact that we are on the fast track to Communist China..whichever banker boy gets in..It’s because of the mindset of the people and our “welfare state” that this is all happening.. When people decide that they can vote themselves money out of the treasury..it’s all downhill from there..Everyone seems to be complicit with it..Kiss your freedom goodbye..because the only one who will be in contro of your life will be the government..and we will all be slaves. When the welfare people can vote to take your possessions away..we’ll see who will be crying..but no one will hear you because your voice will also be quieted…

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    • Roberto G. Vasquez
      Posted on September 10, 2012 at 10:18am

      Power Corrupts!

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    • M1A2_Tanker
      Posted on September 10, 2012 at 5:35pm

      Glad y’all Liked the link. Every Blazer should watch those video’s and then share them with everyone they know. The more we know and USE our rights the more liberty we will take back. Not to mention make the .GOV types feel real small, demoralize them with their own lack of knowledge. Nobody can ever take what you are not willing to give freely.

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  • watersRpeople
    Posted on September 9, 2012 at 9:35pm

    Oh by the way. I just want to take a moment to acknowledge the people who I know drink from the same stream I do. Hi there.

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  • Linny
    Posted on September 9, 2012 at 9:35pm

    The TSA Brown Shirts need to be shown the shortest path to Communist China along with Obama and gang! How anyone can fly and be subject to their intimidation is beyond me. Wake up America stop letting these Brown Shirts do disgusting things to you a
    nd your Children!

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    • ashestoashes
      Posted on September 9, 2012 at 9:45pm

      @LINNY Funny you should mention China..I tried posting this below..but don’t know if it will post..it is the left/right Paradigm explained perfectly by Ed Griffin..That is exactly what is in store for us..with our internet and the whole nine yards..We will become like Communist China..the people choose safety over control of their own lives..and the government chooses control..and so that… it will be http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxDwT55rmIw&feature=player_embedded

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    • jcldwl
      Posted on September 10, 2012 at 5:06am

      I say that same thing all the time. Why are people still flying and subjecting themselves to this crap?

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  • Meyvn
    Posted on September 9, 2012 at 9:34pm

    Uh… Fk the TSA.

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    Meyvn  
    • CatB
      Posted on September 9, 2012 at 9:53pm

      Yes … I don’t like the TSA’s attitude .. hence I do not fly…. I drive wherever I want to go .. YOU HEAR ME AIRLINES? If everyone stopped flying for one month (especially a big holiday month) this garbage would stop and fast. They only do what WE let them get away with.

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    • hold_my_stones
      Posted on September 9, 2012 at 11:08pm

      Bunch of pot bellied perverts. They are a joke as any type of secuirty group. I would have drank my water too. Those untrustworthy lowlifes not sticking anything in my drinks.

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    • tbb
      Posted on September 10, 2012 at 11:50am

      @CATB I’ve always said that. We need to stop flying. Problem is there are already too many people who think that the TSA is a good thing or that have just stopped caring.

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  • Individualism
    Posted on September 9, 2012 at 9:24pm

    if only people in the juries would be like not guilty and its not a crime to, tell these people to f off or use soft skills if they touch outside of security.

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  • Eleutheria
    Posted on September 9, 2012 at 9:20pm

    Who aside from me is just about done trying to reason with these gestapo twist?

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  • progressiveslayer
    Posted on September 9, 2012 at 9:11pm

    I can’t fly anymore because my junk is to be handled by women not men. Barry would enjoy that part of his trip but he doesn’t get his fourth amendment right violated,that’s reserved for us serfs.

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    • Cosmos102
      Posted on September 10, 2012 at 12:26am

      I hear Muslims are exempt from the pat downs by the TSA. It’s against their religion.

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  • Impenitent
    Posted on September 9, 2012 at 9:06pm

    just wait until obamatax takes effect and you want to see a doctor…

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    Impenitent  
  • Stu D. Baker-Hawk
    Posted on September 9, 2012 at 9:03pm

    Soon-to-be President Romney, hear us: As soon as you take your oath in January, please, PLEASE disband this group of mentally challenged Walmart rejects (a.k.a. TSA agents and administrators). Leave security up to the individual airports and airlines, okay? Oh, and tell the successors to those TSA clowns that profiling is okay, just like they do in Israel.

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  • forthepeople
    Posted on September 9, 2012 at 9:00pm

    At what point of time did we loose our civility ? Even in public we see these people daily with an bad rude attitude and its time someone call them on it !

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  • wisehiney
    Posted on September 9, 2012 at 8:57pm

    Fight like hell America.

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    wisehiney  
  • stotlaat
    Posted on September 9, 2012 at 8:51pm

    TSA is only so named because a Canadian band had already taken “The Arrogant Worms”

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  • izukiddin
    Posted on September 9, 2012 at 8:44pm

    OH, TSA agent,Louis Godeaux, of Houston, TX has a cute double chin

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  • watersRpeople
    Posted on September 9, 2012 at 8:42pm

    You Kiddies still can not get along even in the same room. And you wonder why life on two planets were combined into one.

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    • watersRpeople
      Posted on September 9, 2012 at 10:01pm

      Surely it’s true that one planet came from two, just as the creation of the United States was also to show people the decay since the beginning of the world.

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    • Zipit
      Posted on September 10, 2012 at 8:20am

      Funny! You always reply to yourself, because?

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      Zipit  
  • progressiveslayer
    Posted on September 9, 2012 at 8:42pm

    The brown shirted high school dropouts at TSA won’t tolerate an ‘attitude’,you’re supposed to take your sexual assault and be compliant.We allowed this illegal department to be created,now we have to live with it.

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    • Bill Rowland
      Posted on September 10, 2012 at 8:18am

      This is what happens when you take people who’s most important job consisted of asking “would you fries with that give them authority over others. Their head swells, they start to think they are very important and want to get even with all the people that were rude to them in their other life.
      This is an off shoot of the Peter Principle, some people will give themselves the authoity to do anything they want when you give them a little power.

      OMG Nov 6, 2012

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  • izukiddin
    Posted on September 9, 2012 at 8:41pm

    The TSA agent whose name is Louis Godeaux and lives in Houston, TX admitted that it was personal and that she was not a threat.

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  • momrules
    Posted on September 9, 2012 at 8:38pm

    Agents of the TSA have had a whiff of power and they like it. They control you in whatever airport you are in.
    I repeat…….they control you. Your attitude, your body, your children, your dignity are all at the mercy of these people.

    They are now on the highways, at bus stations and rail terminals. We are being herded and trained like the sheep the out of control government wants us to be.

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  • NO_MORE_OBAMA
    Posted on September 9, 2012 at 8:36pm

    TSA are PIGS

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    NO_MORE_OBAMA  
  • Stelex
    Posted on September 9, 2012 at 8:35pm

    Welcome to the new world, TSA, DHS, IRS, ATF……and a new 1 billion dollar facial recognition service being rolled out……..oh yeah….VIPR, UN, shall I go on and on…….Drones, bullets, executive orders.

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    Stelex  
    • watersRpeople
      Posted on September 9, 2012 at 8:50pm

      Allow me to illuminate something for you hero. When one nation becomes more womanly then another nation – one of those nations decides they have to [prove] their manliness by over-throwing another nation. It always happens time and time again, and always has. Now if an entire planet decides it’s all going to only become womanly with an all powerful one world government – then it raises up another entire world against it.

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    • watersRpeople
      Posted on September 9, 2012 at 8:53pm

      I tell you just as sure as you breath that there is nothing new under the sun. There is even no new innovation even that hasn’t happened before this time.

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      watersRpeople  
    • watersRpeople
      Posted on September 9, 2012 at 8:56pm

      There is no new innovation under the sun, and that’s why some people get no excitement from seeing new technology, because some are lively having seen it all before.

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      watersRpeople  
    • watersRpeople
      Posted on September 9, 2012 at 9:00pm

      You should always no this to be true – no one possesses bigger guns than the Lord God.

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      watersRpeople  
    • Winedude
      Posted on September 10, 2012 at 1:45am

      Water, please remember to take your meds this evening. Thank you.

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    • Stelex
      Posted on September 10, 2012 at 6:57am

      Water, you dropped a cheeto, yeah right there in the third roll. Gee I wish I were you.

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      Stelex  
  • Val_Dragon
    Posted on September 9, 2012 at 8:35pm

    All we need to do to win is this…  
    A one minute campaign commercial that starts off showing Obama teamed up with ACORN back in the 90s charging banks with racism and threatening to boycott unless they reduce their lending standards and begin lending to lower income and minorities who would otherwise not qualify for a mortgage under the 20 percent down and good credit requirement.  Then show their hero Bill Clinton amending the Community Reinvestment Act in 99 forcing banks to lend to this group.  The next scene will be of the republicans warning fat face Barney Frank, Frank Reins, that raciest Waters, and the other dummy democrats that this will be big trouble and could lead to a financial crisis.  Then show modern day Obama as president blaming Bush and deregulation as the cause of the current state of the economy.  Obama is so tied into the mortgage meltdown, the people need to know this.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqpTKFQI1nY&sns=em

    Karl Rove get on this request and don’t make it an Internet ad… put on prime time tv.

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  • resme
    Posted on September 9, 2012 at 8:34pm

    Welcome to the police state. Soon the TSA will be expanding to the highways “May i have your passport sir?”, Buses, trains and ferries.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9O41sm-0_4&feature=player_embedded

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  • Slayer
    Posted on September 9, 2012 at 8:33pm

    If Romney wins, we better all get together and start hammering him to disband this bunch of tools immediately. Are you aware that the TSA has been expanded to include the power to stop cars on the highway as well as setting up checkpoints in bus terminals, trains, and ferrys? This has to end. They have never caught a terrorist in all the years they’ve been sexually abusing women, children and the elderly. The list of crimes from TSA agents is outrageous, and don’t think for a minute that their power will lessen over time. It will certainly grow until they are everywhere. Then how will your life be?

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    • BloodSweatandTears
      Posted on September 10, 2012 at 1:11am

      TSA = Union Workers = Democratic Voters = Bigger Government = Higher Taxes = Less Freedom =
      More Union Workers = More Government………………………………………………………………………….

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  • CanteenBoy
    Posted on September 9, 2012 at 8:28pm

    Uneducated thugs.

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on September 9, 2012 at 8:26pm

    One more example of the thugs r us known as the TSA; we need them disbanded before they start to up and harm people for no reasons, this is in addition to their unlawful molestation tactics of people and their perversion with kids.

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  • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
    Posted on September 9, 2012 at 8:25pm

    Well, attitudes are contagious, maybe they thought, “Wow, if everyone suddenly catches a bad attitude, they won’t play freeze tag with us.

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