‘Embarrassed and Humiliated’: TSA Apologizes After Ordering Nursing Mom to Pump Breast Milk Into Bottles Before Boarding
- Posted on March 3, 2012 at 8:34am by
Madeleine Morgenstern
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Amy Strand was made to pump breast milk in an airport bathroom before being permitted to board a flight. (Image source: KITV-TV)
The Transportation Security Administration has apologized after a mother in Hawaii was left “embarrassed and humiliated” after an agent ordered her to pump breast milk in an airport bathroom to prove her electric pump was real.
Amy Strand was traveling with her 9-month-old daughter on her way home from Kauai Wednesday when she was told she would not be allowed to board until she could show the agent full bottles of breast milk, Hawaii ABC affiliate KITV-TV reported.
Just minutes before going through security Wednesday, she said she had done “what no nursing mother wants to do” and dumped the breast milk from the bottles, thinking they would be a screening hassle. But when she was going through the line, the agent stopped her and asked to look at her equipment, which included the pump, a cooler pack and the empty bottles. Because recently-changed TSA guidelines permit women to fly with breast milk but treat electric pumps as medical equipment, Strand had to prove the pump was medically necessary to be able to fly with it.
“I asked him if there was a private place I could pump and he said no, you can go in the women’s bathroom. I had to stand in front of the mirrors and the sinks and pump my breast in front of every tourist that walked into that bathroom,” she told KITV. “I was embarrassed and humiliated and then angry that I was treated this way.”
KITV-TV
Strand, a mother of four and a high school principal in Maui, told ABC she frequently travels between the islands for business and has never had a problem with her electric pump before.
“There was no misunderstanding,” she said. “I really only had two options: leave part of it behind or pump.”
On the verge of tears, Strand said she was finally allowed to board with the other passengers when she was through.
“It really confuses me as to how an empty breast pump and cooler pack are a threat to national security and 20 minutes later, with milk, they no longer pose a threat to national security,” she told ABC.
In a statement to KITV, the TSA admitted their agent was mistaken when he told Strand “that she could only bring the pack if it was medically necessary.”
“We accept responsibility for the apparent misunderstanding and any inconvenience or embarrassment this incident may have caused her,” the statement said.
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Comments (261)
drago
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 9:08amTime to end not only the T.S.A. but all the other three and four letter agencys.As for TSA employees, they need to be beaten withen an inch of their life, and then beaten so more……
Report Post »Sooner or later,its going to get nasty violent,and the left, and odumbos storm troopers, arent going to like the results…..
Itsjusttim
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 9:18amWell how humiliated could she possibly be? I’m sure like everyone else who claims to be humiliated, she will keep flying. I guess they deserve the humiliation.
Report Post »Freedomluver
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 9:22amEeerrrr it was the Republicans who brought us the so called Patriot Act that got the ball rolling, and now they brought us the NDAA. You are barking up the wrong tree, as it is the RINO’s who need to be beaten within inches of their lives.
Report Post »justangry
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 9:25amI thought you hated Ron Paul?
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 9:27amI refuse to fly anymore because of the TSA.
Report Post »I know me…If a TSA guy touched my junk, he would be minus a tooth or two and I would be in prison for assault.
SpankDaMonkey
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 9:37am.
Report Post »One day someone is gonna Kick the Crap outta one of these TSA morons……
So
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 9:42amTSA = Travel Sanctions Abound
The TSA postures for security but provides none. We have given up so much. Spent so much all in the name of being PC. Can’t mention “jihad” or the reason we need security measures. Can’t profile for the terrorists. No, that wouldn’t be PC would it? Yet profiling works every day in crime prevention and criminal capture. Funny those facts get side stepped by the TSA. So we spend an extraordinary amount of time and money screening everyone, because of a war that was declared on Americans.
How ludicrous!
Death of common sense. This administration has no clothes. It’s time to vote the emperor O-U-T!
I won’t fly until this nonsense is stopped. I won’t be patted, probed, or scanned. Forgetaboutit. I don’t have to go anywhere by plane for that treatment. I won’t give up my rights. I’m surprised at the number of people that go along with it. If everyone stopped flying, this administration would possibly rethink their draconian measures.
Report Post »honzie
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 10:03amSo itsjusttim, instead of making idiots be accountable and use sense we are supposed to stop using planes and everthing else??? Why would she take boats and cars across the islands?? How is she supposed to get work done when she is driving everywhere. You must have never hadf a job where you have to be in multiple cities across the country within a week.
Report Post »jadams9845
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 10:07amDrago, you are absolutely correct. Just wait till they start doing this on the interstates. They’ve already done it in TN, OH, KY and WV. The MD state legislature is working on several bills that would ban TSA from their state. Other states are doing this as well.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 10:33am.
Ya’ll the wife saw the Headline, and she reminded me of how emtional she was after the brith of our second child. I thought I had burried that memory in some deep recess to be forgotten for all time.
Because one day I might have said something about her boobs in front of one of our friends. And I‘m here to tell ya’ll she hit me so hard I thought Ali was in the room. I’m not lying, My boy hit the front door on a dead run, left me laying there defenseless and in shock, with what once had been my sweet wife and the mother of our children tell‘in me how if I said another word she’d and I Quote “Rip my manhood out by the root and beat me with it!!!!!!……
She said if that had been her and some fool told her to pump her breasts at the Airport, they could have made a Pay-Pre Viev out of aftermath…..
I’d like to thank The Blaze for running this stroy. She said she forgives me after 22 years…
Report Post »jzs
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 10:47amWhy is it Republicans object so strongly object to a pat down at an airport, which probably has already prevented planes from getting blown up midair by terrorists, but don‘t seem to mind legislating that probes be inserted into a woman’s birth canal, a totally unnecessary procedure?
Report Post »Captain Crunch
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 11:14am@SpankDaMonkey
…by the roots! LOL
Report Post »SistaTriscuit
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 11:22amJZS – As I recall, the only bombing attempt that has been thwarted since the implementation of the TSA goons was the banana hammock bomber…. and as I recall, that wasn’t caught by TSA, it was passengers on the plane after they’d already boarded & been seated. Probably because he was a “minority” so he was waved on through. Heaven forbid we actually treat everyone equally in this country regardless of skin color… after all, wouldn’t want to be called a “racist” or an “Islamophobe” for expecting EVERYONE regardless of their skin color or how they are dressed to be subjected to the same treatment as a 70+ year old wheelchair-bound grandmother who is forced to remove her adult diaper. That would just make no sense at all. As long we continue to make concessions out of fear of being accused of “profiling” then garbage like this serves no purpose but to humiliate innocent people. There comes a point where it’s not profiling, but is instead a description of the suspect. After all, how many wheel-chair bound grandmothers have carried explosives onto airplanes or flown airplanes into skyscrapers? But, it’s only common sense – something the left is devoid of, so I can certainly see how someone such as yourself would be perfectly fine with forcing those who absolutely do not fit the typical description of “terrorist” to be humiliated, while we wave all the 20-something young Arab men on through the check point, otherwise we’re “profiling”.
Report Post »Freedomluver
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 11:27am@jzs
You phrased your question completely the wrong way. It should read…why do lefties support murder and child molestation squads with badges?
How about your hero Obama’s signing of the NDAA as well as the so called Patriot Act that he used to condemn?
Your savior is a fraud.
Report Post »mattmo79
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 12:23pmHey morons get over the repub or dem issue, it’s Progressives!!! They are in both parties!
Report Post »Mateytwo Barreett
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 12:24pm@JZS
Report Post »Why is it that liberals like to groped by strangers wearing nitrile gloves- in public. Does this somehow tie into the gay marriage thing- or the beastality thing?
jdtanker
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 12:33pmBiden introduced a bill while in the senate called the Omnibus Counter-terrorism Act of 1995. It previewed the 2001 Patriot Act by allowing secret evidence to be used in prosecutions, expanding the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and wiretap laws, creating a new federal crime of “terrorism” that could be invoked based on political beliefs, permitting the U.S. military to be used in civilian law enforcement, and allowing permanent detection of non-U.S. citizens without judicial review. The Center for National Security Studies said the bill would erode “constitutional and statutory due process protections” and would “authorize the Justice Department to pick and choose crimes to investigate and prosecute based on political beliefs and associations.”
Report Post »Biden himself draws parallels between his 1995 bill and its 2001 cousin. “I drafted a terrorism bill after the Oklahoma City bombing. And the bill John Ashcroft sent up was my bill,” he said when the Patriot Act was being debated, according to the New Republic, which described him as “the Democratic Party’s de facto spokesman on the war against terrorism.”
robert
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 12:34pmjzs
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 10:47am
“Why is it Republicans object so strongly object to a pat down at an airport, which probably has already prevented planes from getting blown up midair by terrorists,”
Because you‘re a leftist idelogue that doesn ’t understand individual liberties and the right to privacy is why your mind works as it does.
Strange you think everybody should be felt up when it is Muslim terrorists who are committing terrorists acts, and who you believe shouldn’t be scrutinized, not mothers with babies, grandmothers, grandfathers and little children.
Report Post »nzkiwi
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 12:51pmSpank, you just made my whole day. LMAO.
Report Post »Mil-Dot
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 12:52pmWhat has me shaking my head is the so called “law enforcement officers” that side with these goons whenever they hit the panic button. These guys took an oath to protect the constitution but they gleefully run to the aid of TSA creeps in hopes of getting to taze or beat down some poor sap that dares to complain. But, notice that you never hear of one of their wives being groped by these dogs. No, it is just us regular a-holes that are the enemy. Never one of them or their acquaintences.
Report Post »godlovinmom
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 12:53pmWhere does common sense play into this..common sense tells me a nursing mom is NOT a threat.
Report Post »oneshiner
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 12:57pm@MERCYME: No. those women would have gotten a pass. Remember the TSA considers we Americans to be their enemy, not someone who fits the profile.
Report Post »watchtheotherhand
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 1:43pmWow JZS that is amazing logic you have there. Did you get that at Wal-Mart?
Report Post »MYHEROISRON
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 1:48pmThe TSA exists because of muslim terrorism! Stop the immigration of our muslim enemies into the United States, you lousy, traitorous politicians!
Report Post »kindling
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 1:54pmI am rebellious enough that it this happened to me when I breast fed my son I would have just pumped it in front of all the passengers and TSA agents just to humiliate them. Breast feeding is as natural as breathing and we need to stand up for it again. It is not nasty or dirty…..it is natural! The way things are going breast milk may be the only food the government won’t be able to regulate!
Report Post »Brooke Lorren
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 2:19pmI won’t fly because of the TSA… no, I’ll amend that. I won’t fly commercial because of the TSA. I’d fly on a private jet if I had the money. They don’t have to go through the TSA lines. Unfortunately, I can’t afford one, so I refuse to fly.
It’s inconvenient… my friend wanted me to help her drive across the country, but I had to turn her down because I wouldn’t fly out to meet her… but I refuse to comply with their immoral demands. Trying to fly is just asking for a trip to jail.
Report Post »pugsly84
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 2:25pmUmm freedomluvr if you look you will see that Joe Biden actually penned the patriot act Its called the Omnibus Anti terrorism act take a look.
Report Post »geonj
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 2:26pmamen
Report Post »PAT PROUD ARROGANT AMERICAN
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 2:57pmGet the AIRPORT NAZIs some training. It seems now they have alot of perverts and child molesters.
Report Post »Debbie0819
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 3:14pmIt is now time for Obama to watch HIS wife AND daughters get severely humilated at an airport by these IDIOT TSA workers!!!!!! Seems many times in the TSA the left hand doesnt know what the right hand is doing , but that is typical of this sick administration.
Report Post »jzs
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 3:17pmI think any Republican running for office should get a prostate exam to make sure they are healthy.
Report Post »snooop1e
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 3:22pmThis is funny. Several years ago my wife was flying to the East Coast and she brought 5 or 6 bottles of pumped breast milk (yes I know wtmi but I have to make a point) anyway the TSA made her dump them all out before boarding the flight. As a result she had to breast feed the baby in the bathroom. Good old Fed looking out for you and me.
Report Post »justangry
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 4:27pm@Brooke, The TSA is starting to patrol the highways. Just not flying will not stop this madness.
Report Post »BTaylor322
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 4:45pmHope you’re right! That was disgusting!!! On the other hand, have you SEEN Napolitano? She’s to ugly for ANYONE to have sex with, hense she’s too ugly to have a baby! Even if some male were that desperate, she’d probably kill the kid – oops “abort” it!
Report Post »EndTheFedNOW
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 5:25pmItsjusttim
You commie. If you love the TSA so much why dont you go join them. Im sure your a pot bellied thug like they are.
Report Post »teamarcheson
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 5:46pmIf I were standing in the TSA line and saw this being done or watched the TSA groping a little crying child, I would lose my temper and attack the TSA agent and probably get shot to death. But giving my life for my country at a TSA airport stop is no different than giving one’s life in Iraq or Afghanistan defending our people. This will never end until men begin to fight. Now TSA is taking their EVIL to the nation’s highways were they can grope little kids and their mothers where there are not any witnesses.
Report Post »teamarcheson
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 5:48pmThat mother does not realize that the mirror was a two way mirror and TSA men were watching her pump her breasts.
Report Post »robert
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 5:48pmjzs
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 3:17pm
“I think any Republican running for office should get a prostate exam to make sure they are healthy.”
And you’ll volunteer to give the exam, eh?
Report Post »Banter
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 6:34pmThe TSA believes your water bottle is a threat, so they don’t allow them through security. Yet, they have you toss them in a garbage can in the middle of hundreds of people. If they really thought your water bottle was dangerous, they would have you dispose of it in some type of special container.
If nothing else, this clearly shows that the TSA is a sham outfit, populated by those with no other job options.
TSA, taking away your personal freedom one flight at a time.
Report Post »Maji
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 6:52pmfreedomluver
Report Post »Wasn’t it the Obumers admin. that made them Federal Agents?
MS-GlenNBC
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 7:20pmGlenn……
This is Newt Gingrich’s Fault Right????
Report Post »So
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 8:07pm@justangry,
You are so right about the highways being the next big thing for TSA. I think the crap will hit the fan when it does. I hope it does. We can’t just keep going along like cattle. It’s wrong.
Animal farm here we go.
Report Post »Jacksonian2012
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 9:43pmYes , but how do we get rid of them the public think they are safer. All we need are some cute beagles and a metal detector.
Report Post »jzs
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 10:20pmSistaTriscuit asks, “After all, how many wheel-chair bound grandmothers have carried explosives onto airplanes…” I agree, there have been none yet. Nor have there been any white guys caught trying to sneak explosives into an airplane. But they could right? Especially if the TSA never checked them. Excluding certain people from from TSA examination – despite the Constitutional issues – is a hole, a weakness, that terrorists would be certain to exploit. If you think there is not one crazy white guy would carry a bomb onto an airplane I think you are naive. McViegh ring a bell?
The search is meant to be random, and checking babies and grandmas is not an accident. The idea is that nobody can walk through security without some chance of being scrutinized. And yes, if the bad guys had a sure way of getting through security and blowing up an airplane, they probably would have by now.
SistaTriscuit, thinking as Republicans do, I think every woman should have a pelvic exam before boarding an airplane. You women could be concealing explosives there. You Republicans don’t seem have any qualms about that sort of procedure. You wouldn’t object to that I guess.
Report Post »Freedom.Fighter
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 11:33pmIf only we could vote out all if the Republicans that started these bills in the first place (Patriot Act, TSA, etc..) and the Democrats that implement and expand them.
They’re just two sides of the same coin.
Report Post »PATTY HENRY
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 3:29amTSA is everything that is WRONG with AMERICA under a microscope. Arrogant, Leftist, Entitled, Selfish, CRUEL, ANTI-AMERICAN, ANTI-GOD, No self-respecting person would work for them.
WHEN OBAMA GOES…TSA and that sicko freak Janet Napolitano (and the rest of his sicko sisters) with him. Israel has kept their airports/;planes safe for decades and run the tightest operation in the world. IDIOTS say “Yes but look at the small population and number of flights into Tel Aviv… duh… larger flight schedule, hire more security…but never, ever, ever again SUBJECT AMERICANS to the B.S. that is TSA.
TSA is the personification of what is wrong with OBAMA, the USA today. ANYBOOY BUT OBAMA.
Report Post »weldman7
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 9:58amI see so many posters in the 6 plus pages of comments on this story that are habitual Ron Paul haters. Yet Ron Paul is the only candidate actively fighting against the TSA and your rights. Maybe it is time you forgot your misgivings about the good doctor and realize he is our only chance. Santorum Gingrich and Romney are all pro Patriot Act TSA DHA especially that Santorum that cats a nut.
Report Post »weldman7
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 10:00amThat was fighting against the TSA and for your rights. Remember kids always proof read before posting!
Report Post »ccfonten
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 11:12amTo “itsjusttime”: You are an idiot. Your name implies you are male. How about you put yourself into a woman’s place and stand half nude pumping your breasts in front of the world? Oh, I forget, you haven’t any so what difference would it make to an imbecile like you?
Report Post »Got a better way to travel with an infant between ISLANDS than flying??
Moron.
mtnhimike
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 8:47pmYou are spot on !!
Report Post »Dismayed Veteran
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 12:47pmTimmy
You really should read the complete article. Mrs. Strand live on an island. Unless she owns an ocean going boat, she has to use a plane. You might have also learned she travels between islands on business. Now eat your cookies, drink your milk, lay your blanket on the floor and take your nap.
Report Post »MercyMe
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 9:07amI wonder it a Muslim woman in full burka would have been treated in the same mannor.
I doubt it.
Report Post »FreedomPurveyor
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 9:13amNow now, the TSA mantra is “humiliate everyone equally.”
Report Post »k1607
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 9:13amagreed
Report Post »Freedomluver
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 9:17amI wonder how many of you will vote for someone who backs the so called Patriot Act and the monster it created?
If you will…you only have yourselves to blame when something like this happens to you.
Report Post »JACKTHETOAD
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 9:46amFreedom- You’re right. Look what the lefties did to Earth Day.
Report Post »JACKTHETOAD
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 9:51amMore accurately, did WITH Earth Day.
Report Post »RightPolitically
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 10:00amYou’re damn right, TSA WOULDN’T DARE do this to a Muslim female…… NEVER! Let’s stand up to TSA. Let’s stand up to INJUSTICE by a FASCIST entity of the U.S. Federal Government. Privatize TSA.
Report Post »LetsBeSmartAboutThis
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 10:41am“TSA WOULDN’T DARE do this to a Muslim female…… ” this is SO true! They pick and choose their ‘victims’ with a nice ‘politically correct’ spin. Sure, they’ll search grandma wearing her diaper, but never a Muslim woman wearing her burka.
Report Post »GetRight
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 10:55amThis is the exact problem! All law abiding citizen have to endure humiliation and be treated as criminals while we are so intimidated by Muslims that we just give them a pass! Imagine if this were a Muslim woman. First of all they would most likely let her go with no problem. But, if for some reason, they treated her the same way there would be riots in the streets and ACLU, CAIR etc. coming out in her defense! So the intimidation works and they actually think they are doing their job by treating an American, law abiding, mother with her baby like this!
Report Post »SistaTriscuit
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 11:24amOf course not, MercyMe. Certainly can’t have them treat everyone equally, lest they be accused of “profiling”.
Report Post »Robert-CA
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 12:07pmif a covered muslim woman refuses to be searched , the TSA is allowed & “here’s the catch” to witness a pat down conducted by the covered woman herself without removing any hijab or burka & will tell the TSA : I just checked myself for bombs & there’s nothing on me .
Report Post »We can‘t be offending muslim terrorists cause they’ll kill us & then Obama has to come in & start apologizing .
Mil-Dot
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 12:53pmWhat kills me is the so called “law enforcement officers” that side with these goons whenever they hit the panic button. These guys took an oath to protect the constitution but they gleefully run to the aid of TSA creeps in hopes of getting to taze or beat down some poor sap that dares to complain. But, notice that you never hear of one of their wives being groped by these dogs. No, it is just us regular a-holes that are the enemy. Never one of them or their acquaintences.
Report Post »JazzGuy
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 9:04amIndeed you must be right. “PC” has overtaken, if not destroyed..our way of life here in America! I say, “profile FIRST! And whomever is offended by looking like a terrorist, can go somewhere else!”
Report Post »little big man
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 9:05amI wonder if Obama will call this poor lady and apologize to her like he did the sex crazed fluke?
Report Post »MidWestMom
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 9:11amI don’t have to wonder, I know he won’t.
Report Post »MercyMe
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 9:12amSurely we will! Or not.
Report Post »I’m going with not.
k1607
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 9:16amprobably not-he’d probably tell her she should have been proud to help protect the Nation by pumping milk. Or he’d probably tell her she should have used birth control, like Fluke (who is a Fluke) to prevent the problem.
Report Post »Carol1955
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 9:22amMy first thought too.
Report Post »Mrtoohappy
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 9:24amFree Breast Pumps for everyone!!!!!
Report Post »Living In NYC
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 9:33amWow..it‘s too bad we didn’t give this TSA agent’s mom “free stuff back in the day”..like contraception!!
This is just your typical employee of the taxpayers that has come up short on several spoonfuls of brain somewhere along the line or should I say PUBLIC SERVANT??
Report Post »Chuck Stein
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 12:11pm“We accept responsibility for the apparent misunderstanding and any inconvenience or embarrassment this incident may have caused her,” the statement said.
Report Post »I am sick and tired for people who use the term “accept responsibility” to mean “the matter is closed.“ When Janet Reno ”accepted responsibility” for the Waco fiasco, what happened to her? What will happen to ANYONE at TSA for this outrage?
AmazingGrace8
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 12:32pmHe is “milking it for all its worth”, nymphomania.
@mrtoohappy
Wasn’t there a bleep-on-the-health-care-radar-screen of the subject about “free breast pumps”? Was it planned parenthood or some other agency using taxpayer dollars? Did Glenn Beck report something on this equipment when he was on tv?. Just can’t put my finger on this, but sure I am not just off point on this issue. Isn’t it something, this admin. is dragging this country into the sleazy-world of sex and porn? This admin. wants European traditions but will tweak it alittle to place their own signature on policy. Middle-ages, raw sewage ran along the sidewalks of the cities. Tenants on the upper rooms would throw their dirty-water out the windows so it was the standard-politeness in “high-end-society,” the gentleman would walk on the outside and the lady would walk to the left,or inside from the gentleman and the gentleman would be trenched with the dirty water and not the lady.
Report Post »This admin.(Chicago-style) has placed American women on the “outside” and getting “the dirty-water” thrown on them. Webster’s Dictionary: 3rd meaning, “Fluke”…a lobe of a whale’s tail.
Me personally…..I am the head not the tail! American women are being used for the transformation of this country. Wake-up!
MEANS2RESIST
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 2:38pmTSA is nothing but a device to condition us like animals to submit to authority. DHS, TSA, Federalizing & militarizing of local police departments, warrantless wiretapping, passing bills to ban protests. The list goes on & on. Instilling fear in the people, Hitler style….
Under JZS’s messiah, the authoritarian state has incresed 10 fold…….JZS, you are a good little German aren’t you?
Report Post »jungle J
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 9:02amThe agents are a mirrors image of those who leads them…the mentally ill and those infected by facism….many of the ageants would be in prison if they were not given a gubment job..
Report Post »ZengaPA65
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 9:08amLook which candidates don’t have any problem with TSA.
Report Post »hempstead1944
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 9:01amWhat do you need, a room temp IQ to get hired by the TSA ?
Report Post »COFemale
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 9:29amApparently, I applied about a year ago and I have never been called; I have a Master’s.
Report Post »hempstead1944
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 8:59amOh yeah….got to protect the traveling public from lactating breasts…..
Report Post »Nobel Reggie
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 8:59amWake up, USA! Are we going to tolerate this any longer? We need to pressure candidates to pledge to Dump the TSA and get a handle on the mega Un-elected Department of “Homeland Security”.That is something common to everyone they can run on. (What would Obama’s answer be? George Bush created the DHS, but we just improved it).
Report Post »Freedomluver
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 9:05amThere already is such a candidate, and they call him crazy. You are going to have a hard time convincing the others who are all behind the so called Patriot Act that started this whole ball rolling.
Ron Paul 2012…or watch the Bill of Rights go up in flames.
Report Post »MercyMe
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 8:58amThese untrained bullies are out of control. We ned to start standing up and asking for a supervisor to show us (in their rules-for-sheeple) policy book exactly why we are being harrassed.
We need to get the press involved immediately after a harrassment. I think too much of this kind of brown-shirted behavior goes on unreported for the sake of getting to ones destination.
That’s a real shame.
Report Post »Freedomluver
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 9:07amActually, we need to stop electing fools who back the so called Patriot Act and the NDAA.
Report Post »Dan_o
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 9:12amThings like this have been going on for well over a year. The country is already lost. No one has done anything about it and no one will. We are too complacent, comfortable, and largely cowards (perhaps self included). The TSA and other government cronies will not stop unless forced to stop. Remember, this is the same agency now patrolling some highways, bus stations, and train stations. They will soon be everywhere as a domestic security force as well funded and powerful as our military.
The only questions that matter is who do you serve while you are here and where will you be when your body dies?
Report Post »justangry
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 9:31amDan-o, You say the country is lost, but there are people standing up and saying, “enough”, aren’t there? Don’t just give up. Not everyone has accepted this nonsense.
Report Post »Dan_o
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 12:41pm@Justangry, I hear you, I do. I don’t think voting is going to be enough. People are looking to a presidential candidate for hope, as if government can fix government. Will Romney be better? Sure, how could he be worse? Will he turn the country around? I doubt it. Only the people can do that and I don’t see enough opposition to make me think they are ready or willing to do that. If the woman in this story were my wife or daughter, I’d be in jail right now after separating a few TSA agents from their teeth. Where is that reaction? Where are the men who won’t allow their grandmother or child to be groped in the name of “security”?! They are probably at home, like me. If we’re not willing to fight, I do feel the country is lost.
That’s the selfish/worldly side of me. On to the questions I raised, where are our hopes? It is clear that at least 50% of country has their hope in government. It is also clear to any thinking person those hopes are misplaced. So, I ask again (speaking as much to myself), whom do you serve? What is your fate?
Report Post »justangry
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 4:02pmI serve no one. I don’t believe in fate, only free will.
Report Post »Dan_o
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 5:43pmJustangry, that’s not true. You serve yourself if not someone else.
Report Post »justangry
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 6:27pmWell, I serve my family and I swore an oath to defend the Constitution. I’m lost trying to figure out the best way to do it. Voting, and spreading the word seems to be the best option at the moment, but no government thug has tried to molest my daughter yet. Maybe after we find clarity, we can play cards in FEMA camp.
Report Post »Freedomluver
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 8:57amFor those of you who are willing to vote for those who brought us or supported the Patriot Act, the NDAA, and the DHS/TSA, when this happens to you….remember…YOU VOTED FOR IT.
There is only one candidate left who actually believes in the Bill of Rights, and many of you call him crazy.
So sad…..
Ron Paul 2012…or bend over for Big Brother whenever he demands it.
Report Post »justangry
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 9:43amYup, the way I see it is, if you vote for anyone other than Ron Paul this time around, you’re every bit as guilty as the TSA agent who so obviously crapped on her constitutional rights. I know that’s a tough pill for a lot of people to swallow, but… there’s Iran
I want everyone who feels this way to watch the following. It’s long, but important.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN3EryUG0EA&feature=youtu.be
Report Post »Freedomluver
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 10:31am@justangry
It’s inconceivable in my mind how there are so many who decry the destruction of the Bill of Rights, and yet somehow vote for those who are responsible.
They are so blinded by the NWO Boogyman that has been propped up by the very same people, that they willingly and blindly vote for their own destruction.
It would appear that in their minds, defeating the Boggyman is far more important than freedom itself, while folks like us try to point out the fact that if we must destroy the Bill of Rights to catch this Boggyman….there is nothing left worth saving.
They have been hoodwinked by the powers that be on both sides into trading the Constitution for a so called feeling of safety.
Our own corrupt politicians who force this false choice upon us are far more dangerous to our nation than any imaginable so called threat that is used as an excuse to enslave us…and it is so sad to witness those who are so close to my own line of thinking falling for this insanity.
Thanks for your courage to stand up for that which is unpopular, and your abilty to see the big picture….and thanks for sharing that link. We can only hope more folks watch it and wake up to what’s really happening right before their very eyes.
Ron Paul 2012…or bend over for the NWO.
Report Post »justangry
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 4:46pmCheer up. We’re gaining ground.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=ebgph_ToT40
Report Post »mycomet123
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 8:56amOnly one word comes to mind–PATHETIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »teahugger
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 8:56amAnd there is no legal recourse for this woman, is there? There is no way to stop these people except to refuse to fly. Either way, our rights are being trampled on.
Report Post »NEAF
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 8:54amWith a few exceptions the federal agency are don’t a great job by hiring robots. They are no require to think for themselves. I have to give some credits to the progressives. The TSA (Thugs Socialist Agency) are here to stay forever.
Report Post »TheCenturion
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 8:54amShe’s a vice principal?
Hope she sees that THIS is what her union bosses are paying for with her dues!!
Report Post »Mess23
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 8:53amTSA – Terrorizing Americans is out motto.
Wait until they are unionized?
My union sucks
Report Post »Rayblue
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 11:26amThey already have a “color guard”. They’ve been institutionalized behind our back.
Report Post »bcope01
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 8:52amHow did she vote in the last election?
Report Post »piper60
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 8:52amHow about firing the TSA agent for a start. Really??? It was really necessary to have her do that???
Report Post »Mateytwo Barreett
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 12:18pmthat’s FUNNY! Federal employee discharged for not using common sense! Bwahahhahhaahhahahaha! The bitch would end up with such a severance package!!!!
Report Post »TheCenturion
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 8:51amThe TSA should be sent to the border, they need the “security” there more than we need American citizens harassed at airports.
Report Post »Freedomluver
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 9:02amThe Patriot Act and the likes there of is nothing but smoke and mirrors that are being used to destroy the Bill of Rights…and the wide open border is living proof. All of this insanity is the result of a Boogyman…and the sheeple are falling for it. There’s a terrorist behind every bush….BOOO!
Report Post »blazingaway
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 4:07pmGreat idea … let them search non US citizens
Report Post »johnpaulkuchtajr
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 7:15amNot going to happen. The border is where you allow the ATF to sell weapons to Mexican drug cartels and launder their cash using the CIA.
Obammie says “We don‘t need no stinkin’ law and order!”
Report Post »sawbuck
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 8:48amHmm…
Report Post »I guess you have to get humiliated on the Hawaiian islands ,
to get an apology from the TSA agents…!
PIGSWILLNEVERFLY
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 8:48amSince the establishment of the TSA I have decided never to take use air transportation again until flight security is privitized and common sense is applied. Just my decision to follow a principal. I will not voluntarily allow this violation of 4th amendment rights; i will not be subject to molestation for fake “safety”. I just won’t go there. It’s time to say no and stop the insanity.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 8:48amThese TSA people must have to take a test to see how STUPID they are! Anyone with an average I.Q. is not allowed because they might question these ridiculous rules.
Report Post »Mil-Dot
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 8:47amWhat amazes me the most is that the lady “did as she was told” by the goon. I am suprised that he didn’t order her to shoot it into his mouth.
Report Post »NotPoliticallyCorrect
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 2:34pmMy thoughts exactly. If this ever happens to me on any level I will elevate it right of the chain of command…Hello Janet, we need to talk. This TSA person is an a$$ and this woman gave away her liberty far too easily.
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 8:46amIts time to do away with the transportation security administration – they have done nothing to keep us safe- turn these duties over to the airlines. Thats where it should have been all along. 75% of tsa employee‘s wouldn’t be able to make it in regular jobs. These people have ZERO common sense
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 8:50amI agree. Let the consumer decide what level of security they are willing to pay for.
Report Post »wrecked
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 8:45amTSA made an “i’m sorry” thing ? when are some of these numb skulls gonna be fired and held up to public ridicule? Big Sis should be sending this woman and her family the “I’m sorry along with this thing we have in the white house. This entire system is upside down. Heaven help us all to deal with those that think they have power.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 8:44amThese brown shirts would have been right at home in Germany 70 years ago.
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 8:53amI’m surprised that the TSA perverts, didn’t require the entire episode to be video taped, make her strip totally naked, or even have one of their employees actually doing it for her. Is it time for the war to begin yet?
Report Post »Bluefish49
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 8:41amYou veal do as I say and pump zee breast or vee vill pump zim for you….ya.
Report Post »Mil-Dot
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 8:48amNow THAT is funny!
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