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Man Who Taped TSA Searching Shirtless Boy Describes Agent’s Intimidation

A college student who videotaped TSA agents searching a young, shirtless boy* spoke out today about how an unidentified, black-suited man tried to get him to delete the video.

Utah Valley University student Luke Tait, who captured the event on Friday, told KSL radio today that after he got through security someone who appeared to be with the TSA tried to convince him that his just-captured video was invasive:

The full interview can be heard through KSL here.

Tait’s video stirred controversy Monday. In his original description of the YouTube sensation, Tait made it seem TSA agents requested the boy remove his shirt, an insinuation he has backed off of in subsequent interviews. But Tait continues to claim the boy didn’t set off the metal detector, which would have prompted a secondary screening. The TSA has denied that claim.

Read about our original skepticism here, and the description contradictions here.

*According to reports, the TSA did not remove the boy’s shirt nor request it be removed. The boy’s father did that in order to expedite the process.

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  • Ghostrider
    Posted on November 22, 2010 at 6:36pm

    bring on the body bags, they are going to need them. Semper Fi!

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  • LuigiCorelli
    Posted on November 22, 2010 at 6:25pm

    Papers…vere are your papers? Vat kind of last name ist das? Sind sie Juden? Step into the other room please you are in the wrong line. This is the line for Jews. This is the drinking faucet for blacks.
    This is the pat down line for whites. If you are white and over 65 you must go through the line for showers. Nobody gets on a plane without being clean.
    Do you all still believe this is America? Then for God‘s sake don’t accept this crap.

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  • NUTN2SAY
    Posted on November 22, 2010 at 6:23pm

    It really appears that the two only things that most Americans stand for these days is “complacency” and “ignorance” to Constitutional Rule of Law! Everything thing about America should revolve around the U.S. Constitution but doesn’t. It’s more like …evade the Constitution as much as possible! But what would one expect when you have professional traitors to the U.S. Constitution who are in our government running the great work of our Founding Fathers into the ground! They literally spit on the Constitution immediately after they swear oath to serve and protect the Constitution. They blatantly show disrespect to America’s Rule of Constitutional Law right before everyone’s eyes to see and no one genuinely nor truly cares to do the “right” thing and stand up in defense for America! All there is, is a lot of **** chat and ranting going on with people complaining but no one will initiate that proper Constitutional course of action needed to turn this sad situation around! In today’s news there are stories about state legislators writing bills that will require future presidential candidates to “prove” they are eligible to run for president. A rational person would take that as a clue and possibly evidence that law makers know Barack Obama is illegal and not a valid president! But it also shows that they are willing to give an illegal president who is making illegal laws …..a free pass! Now if that is true isn’t that interesting? You know what, I too would like to get a free pass on some things! How is it possible that our federal government is willing to give one person out of a population of over 300 million people …something that is clearly unConstitutional and yet something no one else can have! Who in the hell is Barack Obama and why does our government think he is worthy of such consideration? I’ve said it before and will say it again. Barack Obama was a game changer. A dangerous game changer! People need to wake up and to start smelling the foul stench that has been introduced to American society by this guy and the lawmakers who til this day are still insulting the intelligence of us few who know that they are trying to sweep this Constitutional Crime under a rug! If the American People can never bring Obama to justice for this crime then (as once said before) America will never be the same. America will just get worse. And it will never be the America you once thought it were to be! Until Obama is brought to justice….AMERICA IS NO MORE!

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    • chasbronson
      Posted on November 22, 2010 at 11:08pm

      I have been saying Treason from day one.No one seems to listen.There is a blinding over the eyes of those who have rejected the Truth.What is being done by this government to the people is Treason, yet there are still 40% or more who still support the Obama administration.People sit in adaze in front of the liberal media and take it as truth,and believe everything they see and hear.they choose to believe the smooth lying tongue of the serpent.

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  • moonpeace
    Posted on November 22, 2010 at 6:17pm

    Profiling ends this madness now. If 99% of banks were robbed by 6′, blonde-haired, blue-eyed men we would keep an eye out for those who fit that description. Well guess what percentage of Islamic terrorists are of Arab descent. Start there. My God, the liberals are ruining this country with their politically correct, afraid to offend anyone attitude. They would rather offend their own people. Profile now!

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  • the_ancient
    Posted on November 22, 2010 at 6:14pm

    The Blaze better watch its coverage of this. They are about 1 more TSA Defense story from lose me, and alot of other people I know I readers.

    There is no defense for the TSA on this subject. Period

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  • quicker
    Posted on November 22, 2010 at 6:10pm

    Everybody traveling by air needs to have a t-shirt on saying got profiling

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  • moonpeace
    Posted on November 22, 2010 at 6:10pm

    Tell your Congressman and Senator to start profiling now.

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  • moonpeace
    Posted on November 22, 2010 at 6:09pm

    Profiling is not a crime. Begin it now!

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  • jbl8199
    Posted on November 22, 2010 at 6:04pm

    Please, If you haven’t read the book of Revelation in the Bible, please read it. things are lining up perfectly. they are already trying for a world currency and government, next they will start putting a chip in your hand so you can’t buy or sell anything(google Verichip) and they will put in place their world religio. I hate to sound like one of those mad men in robes with a big sign saying “the end is near” but trust me, It’s closer than you think.

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    • ronmorgen
      Posted on November 22, 2010 at 7:06pm

      Yes, I have studied Revelation and the rest of the bible, and I am a believer. However, I have never seen anything about a “chip”. It says “mark of the beast”, not chip. (Revelation 13:16-18)

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    • proudinfidel54
      Posted on November 22, 2010 at 7:45pm

      RONMORGEN The Bible does speak of the Mark as being necessary to buy and sell (commerce), the chip they are developing, in fact, have developed already, is intended to replace the credit card, just suppose they say hey! we can eliminate this madness at the airport starting with the frequent fliers by putting your entire history on a microchip then you can circumvent the checkpoints. Of course it would have to be a chip because a terroist could steal a card with a magnetic strip and get on the plane and blow you up.

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    • spirited
      Posted on November 22, 2010 at 7:52pm

      Perry Stone talks about the chip.

      >Some petowners have had micro-chips put in their pet.
      Putting medical records on a micro-chip in people has been spoken about.

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    • murphytavern
      Posted on November 23, 2010 at 3:54am

      true man but remember we win in the end

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  • heavyduty
    Posted on November 22, 2010 at 5:59pm

    No one can take your rights away from you. The only way that you can lose your rights is to give them away. If you give them away then you have no one to blame but yourself. Do not fly until they change their rules. If you do fly then you have no one to blame but yourself. You can stop this invasion of your privacy. If everyone would stand their ground and not fly for this holiday, they would change their rules in a hurry. They only reason they can get away with it is because you let them.

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  • spendthrift
    Posted on November 22, 2010 at 5:44pm

    This is exactly what progressives want. Mayhem from the top down, bottom up, and inside out.

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  • Independent American
    Posted on November 22, 2010 at 5:41pm

    TSA=Totally Stupid Actions [among other versions]

    How many American children have committed terrorist acts?

    How many single, Arab, Muslim, homosexual men have committed terrorist acts?

    Who should we be watching for?

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  • timeofjacobstrouble
    Posted on November 22, 2010 at 5:37pm

    Don’t Tread On Me

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  • milwife88
    Posted on November 22, 2010 at 5:23pm

    I‘ve said this before and I’ll say it again. They need to make a device that detects all kinds of explosives. When a person enters this machine it detects the explosive and immediately detonates it. It’ll only take one or two times and this crap will end. They only thing that I ask for is that the machine be self cleaning. Problem solved.

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  • Individualsrule
    Posted on November 22, 2010 at 5:18pm

    Flying is a privilege not a right, don’t like to be scanned or groped? Don’t fly! Or, only fly with airlines that have sound methods of security like PROFILING! Yes I Know what airline is that? The new one that has the balls to tell the “Goverment” to “PISS OFF”

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    • booger71
      Posted on November 22, 2010 at 9:30pm

      I am not sure I agree. I have a right to enter in a contract with an airline to travel from point A to B. I also have a right NOT to have my Constitutional rights shattered as a condition of fulfilling this contract.

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  • Vegasradar
    Posted on November 22, 2010 at 5:02pm

    look at the way the TSA agent touches the boy between the legs at the .20sec mark
    that is molestation!

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  • temple62
    Posted on November 22, 2010 at 5:02pm

    Nappy makes her statement as if she shouldn’t be made responsible for the TSA policy and procedures -astounding! But in defense of the TSA, Nappy, Pisshole and Obama, people need to know that the U.S. Government, Congress, and Obama’s pseudo administration have empowered the TSA to make your travel as inconvenient, obtrusive, delayed and objectionable as possible. This is their mission and you have to admit they are doing a great job following all these precepts.

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    • proudinfidel54
      Posted on November 22, 2010 at 7:34pm

      Of course this is their mission, they have to cause public outrage in order to facilitate phase 3 of their agenda. we have to get mad, riot in the street, then beg the administration to save us.

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    • snuss
      Posted on November 22, 2010 at 8:26pm

      I’m guessing phase three will follow the airline boycots running the airline industry broke, then obama will step in and take over the airline industry like GM and banking, government airlines, the peoples airline.

      Get ready

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  • capecodsully
    Posted on November 22, 2010 at 4:59pm

    How long of a boycott would it take to do harm to the airlines, a week or two? Americans don’t have to live like this, there are appropriate alternatives, like profiling.

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  • LSX
    Posted on November 22, 2010 at 4:50pm

    Just don’t fly!

    Get the airlines to fight this Obama agenda with a pocketbook boycott.

    If we all stop traveling by air, it‘s going to effect the airline’s bottom line and they’ll throw out the Obama-nazis and privatize the system.

    The only cure for Obama’s transformation is revolt against their mandates!

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  • krmike
    Posted on November 22, 2010 at 4:50pm

    Dress like muslims !!!! Problem solved !!!!

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  • krmike
    Posted on November 22, 2010 at 4:48pm

    Dress like muslim”s !!! Problem solved !!!!

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  • DeltaHawk
    Posted on November 22, 2010 at 4:44pm

    Terry vs Ohio in U S Supreme court ruling. TSA does not have the authority to do these searches!!!!

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    • RepubliCorp
      Posted on November 22, 2010 at 6:03pm

      Whats wrong with caravel ticket takers feeling up your kids? Obama just wants whats best for you. This is good practice for things to come.

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  • Conservative Grinch
    Posted on November 22, 2010 at 4:43pm

    Firsties

    The Uncle Sambo TSA spooks wants to suppress all evidence against the Obama Junta and its excesses.

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  • inGODwetrustalways
    Posted on November 22, 2010 at 4:41pm

    One word would fix this….Profile….

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  • cubber
    Posted on November 22, 2010 at 4:38pm

    Stop the madness. CLOSE the borders. BE PREPARED.

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    • snowleopard3200 {mix art}
      Posted on November 22, 2010 at 4:52pm

      Welcome to the future of America under the leadership of the Progressives, and the marxists future they will force down our throats. Everyone will be considered a criminal without any trial or any kind of accusation. They start with the youth, like here, and elsewhere, to indoctrinate them to the usages of intimidation control a.k.a soviet union, china, etc. Control through the application of fear and terror.

      Only problem is for them, Americans are fighting back with the truth and cameras.

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    • James
      Posted on November 22, 2010 at 4:59pm

      @snowleopard3200

      Two years ago I would have thought you were insane. Unfortunately know I have to agree with you.

       
    • aamador
      Posted on November 22, 2010 at 5:36pm

      I will continue to fight with reason until there is no longer hope. And when that is taken away then I hope they are prepared for what will be unleashed and may God have mercy on their souls

       
    • 1TrueOne55
      Posted on November 22, 2010 at 5:58pm

      Progressives fear us right now and any thing they can do to scare us into submission is their goal. Healthcare bill etc. It is to prepare for the coming War with Christ so they have to intimidate all to get at the Christians that don’t have strong faith enough to die for his beliefs.

      Remember 666 in Revelation is code for a name of a man that would come and subjugate those who did not have strong faith in God to separate them by fear with hunger, materialism so that they would deny their faith and turn back to humanism and satan/evil living…

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    • moonpeace
      Posted on November 22, 2010 at 6:07pm

      Profiling is not a crime. Eliminate the TSA problems by profiling quickly and often, and begin now.

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    • BMartin1776
      Posted on November 22, 2010 at 6:28pm

      Stay vigilant I agree with Beck something is not right this is all out right before a holiday and its is extreme to say the least. I want to know what reason one would have to search a child? Pls tell me of the last terrorist attack when children were used as suicide bombers!?

      This is a distraction folks WATCH what the other hand is doing.

      Stand your ground hold the line, the radical animals are gearing up to engage us at the gates. 56 men, our Founding Fathers, had the guts to stand up and do what’s right, what about you? http://www.savingtherepublic.com

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    • glenelmregina
      Posted on November 22, 2010 at 6:54pm

      When I fly next week, I will request a female and act as though I am thoroughly enjoying the rub down!

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    • ME
      Posted on November 22, 2010 at 8:43pm

      My grandfather that fought in world war II always said the greatest tool Hitler had was that he gave everyone a badge and set the people to watching the people. All we need is another incident and we will be criminals for posting here (like the tweet in china gets you hard labor for a year) It coming 11,000 $ fine if you refuse to be violated??? The problem is I don’t see a way out and being Gondai has never been in any Americans nature I have heard of or know. I will cling to my guns and God and watch Nero I mean Obama burn the republic, history is just a repetition. If in two more years if we are not in a police state I will eat my words (computer it will probably be good for noting more).

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    • PubliusPencilman
      Posted on November 22, 2010 at 8:44pm

      Hold on a second… are you folks really pinning airport security on the progressives? Really? Do you even know who you are attacking anymore? Was it the progressives that passed the Patriot Act?

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    • ME
      Posted on November 22, 2010 at 8:57pm

      @ PubliusPencilman

      “progressives that passed the Patriot Act” no the progressives that made it perminate (Obama) before that it was on a sunset as what it was meant a temporary measure. Go back to Huff your not bright enough to debate here. As many did not like Bush as well and consider him a progressive as well.

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    • BlueStrat
      Posted on November 22, 2010 at 9:32pm

      “PubliusPencilman
      Posted on November 22, 2010 at 8:44pm

      Hold on a second… are you folks really pinning airport security on the progressives? Really?”

      Yes, yes we are. What, do you think us ignorant enough not to know full well that Progressives are in both the Republican as well as the Democratic parties? We don’t do the (R) and (D) dance here, sorry. We look at the words and actions, and most importantly their results.

      That’s why Progressivism/Liberalism has already failed this time around. Too many people have woken up and refuse to conform to the old class-warfare and political-party-based thought and behavior patterns.

      The only “victory” possible for Progressives now that too many people are awake for them to succeed would be an extremely bloody Pyrrhic victory with basically nothing and no one left for them to rule over.

      That’s also why this period during which the Progressives finally realize they have lost is also the most dangerous time, as there are Statist/Progressive/Socialist/Communist “true believers”, like so many in this administration, who would rather destroy it all if they can’t rule it all. I’m not at all sure if sanity will prevail, judging by the radical, violent, bigoted, and psychotic hatred often spewed by Progressives.

      Hope for the best.

      But, prepare for the worst.

      We have already won, but we must remain strong and vigilant to prevent this failed & dying ideology‘s death throes from destroying us in it’s final moments.

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    • No1YaKnow
      Posted on November 23, 2010 at 12:34am

      Isn’t that great?? Let’s argue over whether there was intimidation or cooperation…not that this crap is beyond ridiculous and intentionally invasive. As someone else mentioned–let’s close the borders. Unless and until our government takes their job at securing the borders seriously and actually does what they are charged with doing, there is NO safe, even with this ridiculous totalitarian b.s. they are leveling at us.

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    • CatB
      Posted on November 23, 2010 at 12:37am

      The Video was “invasive” but the STRIP SEARCH WASN’T? The world is upside down. Someone needs to protect the children from these perverted searches NOW!

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    • JKN
      Posted on November 23, 2010 at 8:00am

      This Administration couldn’t care less about our “security”… If they did, they would build the fence, enforce all of our immigration laws, mandate e-Verify nationwide, close the massively-exploited “Anchor Baby” loophole, and deny tax-paid benefits to illegal aliens. How can this government possibly speak of our “security” while leaving our 2,000-mile southern border WIDE OPEN to heaven knows what? Thanks to political correction/censorship with manners and the Progressive push for “globalization,” we are fully exposed at all levels…

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    • bostonchris
      Posted on November 23, 2010 at 3:33pm

      if they cant profile for political correctness…i want to see obama get groped or microwaved in that toaster..this looks like a population control mechanism..get your tumors here red hot tumors get em while there hot….un f%&^*in believable……..

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    • bostonchris
      Posted on November 23, 2010 at 3:46pm

      lets all push the envelope on this one…i dont and ecourage everyone to say its not politacally correct for anyone to get a pass on microwaves or groping..i mean what if one of the presidents staff or the president himself has a bomb on his person and their plane blows up over a major city..if we have to do this to feel safe in the sky then they have to be subjected to this measure for us on the ground..whats fair is fair.

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    • akim
      Posted on November 23, 2010 at 7:28pm

      SOON TSA WILL RECEIVE AUTHORIZATION TO SHOOT TRAVELERS WHO TAKE VIDEOS.

      The government is really training TSA to work at FEMA concentration camps where people arriving in box cars will have to be strip searched, valubles taken, men and women seperated, and children taken from their mothers. This of course will all be done in the name of securiety. All of this will be authorized because the US Supreme Court already ruled on this back in 1942 for Japanese.

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