Parents of 6-Year-Old Pat-Down Girl Break Their Silence, Demand Change
- Posted on April 13, 2011 at 9:27am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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The parents of a 6-year-old girl who received a thorough pat-down by a TSA agent at a security checkpoint in New Orleans broke their silence this morning to “Good Morning America.” Selene and Todd Drexel, from Kentucky, are now demanding the TSA change its security process for children.
Read our initial story.
Read the TSA’s response.
“We struggle to teach our kids to protect themselves, to say ‘no, it’s not ok to touch me in this way in this area,” the girl’s mother, Selena, said. “Yet here we are saying it’s ok for these people.”
According to her, she asked for alternatives but was denied: “I did ask for alternatives, I asked for her to be rescanned. They just refused and said they were going to do what they were going to do.”
The girl’s father, Todd, says the pat-down sends mixed message:
“Initially she was just confused,” Todd Drexel said. “She really didn’t understand what she had done wrong.” He said he and his wife struggled with how to explain to their child what had happened after teaching her previously it was not ok to be touched in certain places. “Now she’s been pat down in a public setting, in an airport.”
According to ABC News, the TSA defended the pat-down but said it is looking into how it might change the screening system:
The TSA said it has reviewed the tape and that the “officer followed proper current screening procedures.“ They added they ”are exploring additional ways to focus its resources and move beyond a one-sized-fits-all system.”
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MikeinIdaho
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:32amJust asking, but why did this take so long? I wouldn’t let anyone touch my kid for any reason, especially a 6 year old girl by a pervert TSA slug.
Report Post »BetterDays
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:28amI would not have had restraint of pen nor tongue, nor of an roundhouse.
Report Post »jerryod1627
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:23amThe TSA is not about airline security, they are about controlling people, and teaching them to do as they are told without question or be punished! If everyone nation wide, refused to submit to these checks then no one would get on a plane, thus the airlines have no business, their planes don’t fly, they don’t make any money, and the airlines would see to it that these procedures were changed! We all might have to change our flying habits for a few days but you can bet that it would not last long!
Report Post »ccr
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:19amLet me guess……..they wouldn’t dare do that to any child/parents that looked of middle eastern descent or black, right? Can’t profile………..would they do a pat down on one of those “minorities”?? Or just to those that appear to be “those” people……the Caucasians…..
Report Post »Sinista MACE
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 12:07pmWhat do you mean?
The cops have been doing this to minorities in general on American streets for decades.
What rock have you been hiding under?
This isn’t a racial thing, the cops are just expanding their abuse to everyone, just like slavery never ended, it was expanded to everyone through monetary policy.
Report Post »handsoffmystuff
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:16amNow you’ve done it …. NOW YOU’VE DONE IT. Expect the TSA to delay every time you fly from now on. Expect an IRS Audit. Expect an article about your online activities from a left wing blog. You don’t bite the hand that…. that’s attached to the boot on your face.
Report Post »eat-more-bacon-USA
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:12amBarry and Jan have approved this policy of child molestation.
Report Post »jacobstroubles
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:07amSexual Offense charges should be immediately brought against all TSA agents who have manhandled any minor child! Every parent should launch a class action law suite immeidately against the TSA. And no..accept no payment other than all of those Agents face immeidate dismissal from their jobs, and criminal charges to include jail/prison and life time probation with ankle braclet!
Report Post »GoNavy92
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:06amIf our destination is within 8-10 hours….we drive. I’m not subjecting my children to the perverts of the TSA
Report Post »FossilJen
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 11:03amWe just make sure our destination isn’t too far to drive at all. I would take an entire week of driving over a 2 hour flight any day. I refuse to fly any more. Of course, if everyone else that was against these ‘screenings’ would refuse to fly as well, they would have to get rid of them. But again, just like with paying taxes, try to get people to work together…IF we fail and the progressives win, it will be simply because they organize for working together. We need to use their own tactics against them. Time to organize, people!!!
Report Post »psst
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:06amMickyD’s would go out of bidniz.
Report Post »The public don ‘t want fondlers to be fondling their Whoppers and Big Mac’s.
Since they would not be at the airports, you would recognize them by seeing them trying to fry up your fries w/ both hands in their pockets.
freedom4ever
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:06amthis isn’t right at all a six year old child! how low has our country gone? why was she searched in the first place? let’s see white, child, girl – in my book none add up! i see a child and parents that have been degraded by our country in the worse way. i know i would have felt terrible seeing this happen to my child in a so called free country! i am so ashamed of this country anymore. hope the libs enjoy the new order. very sad day.
Report Post »psst
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:03amThis is how employees (I think they are unionized) of this Fed agency gets their rocks off.
Report Post »They remind me Ol’ Mohammad , the Koran’s child perv. writer.
JenniferNB
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:02amI agree with annonymous I have thought from the beginning of the new TSA checkpoints that how do THEY SCREEN POTENTIAL AMPLOYESS??? They probably have all types of pedophiles and sex addicts, gay and lesbians that are in the closet….etc. The list could go on. That woman touching her could be a lesbian child moestor with or without a an arrest in her history. This is a brreding ground for potential harm to innocent families and children. AND NOW THEY WLL BE UNION AND CANNOT LOSE THEIR JOBS!!!!! tHE TSA AND JANET “DYSFUNCTIONAL”NAPOLITANO NEEDS TO BE INVESTIGATED TO SEE WHAT KIND OF PEOPLE ARE ON THE GOVERNMENT PAYROLL!!!!!!!
Report Post »JenniferNB
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:09amSorry….so angry just kept typing without checking. Maybe that film crew that found out all that stuff about ACORN and Planned Parenthood should send a crew to the TSA and see what they can uncover! Because of this we have chosen as a family not to fly. For the last 3 years we have flown to our vacations. This year we will be driving.
Report Post »RED-DAWN
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:02amI’m trying so hard to wrap my mind around this. Let me see, in over 20 years of law enforcement experience, most in a high crime district of south Florida, I CAN NOT RECALL A SINGLE TIME WHEN I HAD TO CONDUCT A PAT-DOWN SEARCH OF A SIX YEAR OLD CHILD! Then again, back in the day we used a now PC incorrect technique called PROFILING. Yep, we even had classes to teach officers how to make his selections. I guess it worked too good and that‘s why the liberals won’t allow it to be utilized today.
It’s a sad day in AMERICA. My solution, I don’t fly. Buy an RV. You can spend more time with your family and limit those that enter. More important, it’s an extension of your home and FIREARMS are ALLOWED…
Report Post »BetterDays
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:45amWell stated, but have you seen the price of Gas?
Report Post »additionally, the TSA has no “police authority”, which is why if I personally am ever singled out will request the TSA officer bring in a police officer whom I will permit to “frisk” me as an trained police officer has the legal backing to do so. Will this cause a fuss, probably, but I am ambivalent in the matter.
All this PC bull has made is a cluster fuch of proven police techniques, and I think that is the intent.
Doing this to a six year old, is not only unconscionable but is tantamount to child molestation.
Question: have you witnessed the transition from local policing priority into instruction on police state type training?
Thun
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 3:15pmI post 4 or 5 links about parents using their children to smuggle drugs and you remove my post? Why, I didn‘t attack anyone with ad hominem’s or use vulgar language offensive to anyone. Others out here post links and their posts remain intact. I was simply trying to point out that adults use children all the time to smuggle paraphernalia. Now I‘m glad I didn’t post the other hundred or so links about parents strapping bombs to their children’s chests to blow things up! Please show me in your terms and conditions where I did something wrong?
Report Post »Danola
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:01amI hope our next Attorney General will have the guts to prosecute every TSA agent for molesting children. And all of their bosses.
Report Post »VRW Conspirator
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:22am@Danola
And this goes for everyone that reads this article…and continue to do it EVERY time one of these stories surfaces…
Go to the TSA website and file a complaint. There is an option on the complaint email form that asks for the subject. Pick the Inappropriate/Pat-down Screening option. Make sure they know that the full body scanners and the pat down are amoral, an act of molestation, pornographic, and acts of pedophilia against children.
Complain..complain..complain…if we flood their complaint emails with hundreds of thousands of angry Americans…maybe just maybe…we can get a change made either back to the old system or to a smarter, profiling based system like the Israelis use.
And…we can all just REFUSE to fly. Eventually the airlines will complain due to lack of income and then Obama will be forced to pull the new measures. Also, complain to you local airports, newspapers, TV stations…make these pedophile videos go viral until the American people wake up…
Report Post »KixAcelot
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 9:59amLet me point out that should they wish to do something similar to my child then I will press charges for child molestation and public indecency.
Report Post »brknhrt
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:37amI don’t understand why the parents allowed this to happen. They are just as guilty of abuse.
Report Post »ChipK
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 9:58amthe TSA needs to start “profiling”!!!!! To Hell with political correctness! Enough beligerent stupidity.
Report Post »flipper1073
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 4:57pmProfile And Conceal Carry Problem Solved Thanks to the guys on flight 93 LETS ROLL
Report Post »NickDeringer
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 9:57amI know. Let’s go back to the system we had on September, 10 2001. No pat down of little girl. No naked body scans. No taking off your shoes. No evil Patriot Act. It was swell.
What could possibly go wrong?
Report Post »zman173rd
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:21amNow you see Nicky, With folks like you it’s all or nothing. We need security but not at the risk of losing your freedom. The lack of seriousness in your statement shows how brainwshed some people can be. Do you think the TSA axed if their daughter had been out of their sight for a breif period such that a sneaky person could plant a thinly placed high explosive on her person? You can’t honestly think that common sense can be used in such cases. Again, the parents asked to rescan her and the TSA said no. I mean this is an example of power in the wrong departments of GOVERNMENT.
Report Post »BetterDays
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:25amWell, if you were a conspiracy theorist, maybe something manufactured to create a crisis so you restate those unconstitutional things, just saying.
Report Post »NickDeringer
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:43am@zman173rd @BetterDays
You better never travel to Israel.
Just sayin’.
Report Post »BetterDays
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:49amNick:
Report Post »el Al does it right, low profile profiling.
hightide
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 9:52amNo TSA, that is not ok. Now stop it
Report Post »tobywil2
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 9:52amjust impeach Obama, find him guilty and start over. The current crop of bureaucrats have no redeeming characteristics. Don’t blame the agent. the source of the tyranny stems from the tyrant.
Report Post »http://commonsense21c.com/
Jezreel
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:04amAbout time. All he has done needs to be declared null and void because he is not an American. I am sick and tired of spineless politicians. We need a man with backbone.
Report Post »Rapunzel
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:43am@Jezreel – or a woman!
Report Post »UlyssesP
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:51amIt won’t solve a damn thing. He is a mouth piece. The latest poster boy for the crazies. Let him run his term and then vote the whole lot out. I do not want a Joe Biden for president. Are you serious?
Report Post »starman70
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 11:40amThis Napolitano is no better than Clinton’s Attorney General who unleashed a tank on a religious compound, albeit armed, just to get the leader or snatched a child fom the arms of his mother to be exiled into communism. All the rulers in Washington are cut from the same mold. It’s all about the political agenda, the institutioning og Communism in America.
Report Post »texasfarmer
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 9:50amIt’s not a matter of safety, it’s a matter of control and conditioning.
Report Post »BetterDays
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:23amWinner, winner, chicken diner!
Report Post »Obedience conditioning in America. I do seem to recall Gov. Tom Ridge first head of DHS stating something to the effect of having the TSA eventually patrolling our streets. I searched online, and all I got was V.I.PE.R., and the Atlanta “train station” incident. Not that that surprised me, there’s a lot about Mr. ridge that I know to be a fact ( first hand information) that has been wiped from the Internet over these last two years. Makes me wonder what they are setting him up to be that they need to cover his tracks so to speak?
GETLIFE
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 11:34amProbably now going to hold special summer camps for the children of TSA employees. Give them a little badge to wear and send them back to their schools to be “safety guards.”
Report Post »bassist237
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 9:48amI got an idea, stop profiling children.
Report Post »flipper1073
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 4:47pmBetter Idea TSA keep your freaking hands OFF children
Report Post »ImahaIngttta
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 9:48amthey ”are exploring additional ways to focus its resources and move beyond a one-sized-fits-all system.”
Are you kidding me? Is profiling any less humane that what occurred here? Stop “exploring” and just do it right you dim-wits.
Report Post »xredcoat
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:58amI think these are the same idiots that would throw gasoline on a forest fire.
Report Post »StevenL1955
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 9:48amThey added they ”are exploring additional ways to focus its resources and move beyond a one-sized-fits-all system.”
When was the last time you saw a little six year old blonde girl blow up a plane? IDIOTS!!! Profile the people that WILL, not the ones that won’t. It may Offend Obama‘s Muslum family is the only reason we don’t. This freaking country has turned into the twilight zone
Report Post »CaptGregg
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 9:58amPatting down a 6 year old blonde girl makes as much sense as patting down passengers getting OFF a train. Yep, those geniuses did that too!
Report Post »xredcoat
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:56amIts a ‘One-size fits all’ approach in most aspects of FEDERAL INTRUSION into our lives. Let’s not let the TSA hot water off the boil. It will be a 2012 campaign issue the DEMS and establishment REPUBS will dread to talk about.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 9:46amTime once again to declare the TSA has got to go away!!! This is once again a clear and cut case of child pedophilia; they need to be charged and locked away for good. Starting with Napoletano the traitor to the nation.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 9:52amI think Napolitano gets off on this. Does the TSA union do background checks on these low-paid employees? Hey pedophiles have rights, too (said in a sarcastic union voice).
Report Post »If these bewildered, innocent children are not wearing a burqa or robes, they really don’t need to be checked, unless they are with an adult who looks to be a follower of Islam. Not racist, just profilist.
starman70
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 11:28amI wonder about Napolitano.
Report Post »Cerealface
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 11:36amMaybe we should six year old scanners!
Or maybe you should just stop freaking out over a female inspecting a child. She did nothing wrong. The person who issued the check did.
Report Post »Anti_Spock
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 9:46amTSA is dumb. How many agents are perverts? Come here little girl.. lets play a game called TSA.
Report Post »Gold Coin & Economic News
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 9:53amThis story just proves our government and the TSA have no clue about the real threat we are facing. Pat downs of 6 year old caucasian girls with home-school looking moms are needed? What is the matter with our leaders?
Report Post »GODSAMERICA
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 9:54amYou got that right anti_spock. I believe the answer to your question though is – ALL OF THEM!!! If they weren‘t then they wouldn’t be working for the TSA, having a job is very important but to molest children goes way beyond having a job. I doubt any of them go to church but if they do then they are wasting their time while they do this.
Report Post »Gold Coin & Economic News
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:06amYou know that Johnny Jihad is watching all this and planning for an attack. And the way they’re going to do it is by standing behind your grandmother, the nun down at the local Catholic church or your neighbors 6 year old girl while they are getting the pat down and they’ll sneak right past the occupied TSA agents and Janet Napolitano thinking they are doing their duty. They’ll walk right on by the fiasco of Homeland Security while wearing a suicide vest and carrying an AK-47.
WAKE UP!
Report Post »GETLIFE
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:31amI agree GOLD, this is just an illustration of how the TSA is not addressing terrorist threats realistically. Non-idiotic screening would require intelligent training. That’s too complicated! They would have to be responsible for their personnel. They don’t want to bother. Machines and machine-like screeners who only need to be able to memorize rules and regulations relieve them of true responsibility for our safety.
Report Post »Dumber and dumber–how stupid we must look. Maybe we are already too stupid to do it right.
Obama Snake Oil Co
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:56amDoes Janet get gropped when she goes through the airports? Well, she should. In my opine, this is the worst intrusion to privacy in the history of this nation. Dogs…don’t profile..use dogs for bomb sniffing like in Israel. Just imagine your child going through this. Where is the ACLU on this? I travel a lot and when I see the “pat downs”, I wonder why they have been arrested….I cannot wait until a bomber trys a cavity bomb….maybe then, some will open their eyes and realize, we are being played a fool.
Report Post »expatinontariocanada
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 11:07amIt’s the same stupid mentality that leads to gun control. Just think of this as their attempt at “bomb control”. Instead of stopping the “bombers” they try to “ban” bombs, just like instead of stopping criminals they try to ban guns. How dumb can they get? Wait, I’m afraid of your answer to that…
Report Post »gofigureinternational
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 11:09amAgreed Gold…This is beyond ridiculous! These politicians are all spineless wonders, or at least 90% of them. You can look at border security (or lack thereof), the deficit, TSA, or any host of other items and they refuse to do anything other than deny, distract and delay the issues. Meanwhile, our enemies continue to work their plans and find our weaknesses while the politicians continue to spend more and more weakening what is left of our once great country. Make no mistake; we have politicians that are working against the very sovereignty of our nation.
Report Post »BigSky
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 11:11amA lot of the TSA employees are sex offenders and convicted felons of various other crimes.
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 11:32amIf they would let us pack guns on planes the terrorist would think twice (maybe) or stopped in their tracks, at least the fool who wants to disrupt the flight would wonder who is packing. It would also stop the TSA agents grope.
Report Post »Cerealface
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 11:34am6 year olds obviously are packing bombs in their diapers.
Everyone fly naked.
Report Post »No more screenings.
GEW
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 11:39amI understand what you all are saying. But it comes to mind, during the Vietnam war, mothers would bring their babies up to some guy in the miltary, and hand then too them, then turn and walk away as they blew up their own babies along with the soldier.
When I went through Germany 5 years ago, at the airport, they patted down everyone, men, women, adults children. No one was excluded for any reason. Just a thought ….
Report Post »Mee the People
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 11:40amits only a matter of time when a parent will go balistic
Report Post »SavingtheRepublic.com
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 11:51am^______^______^
Gonna give the agents the benefit of the doubt and put the finger of blame at their handlers; Pistole, Napolitano, Holder, Obama.
A child poses no threat there is nothing fair in randomly choosing a child for this. This is one area Jesse Ventura is from another planet on. What the TSA does outside of an airport would get one arrested. This must stop. The organization is the equivalent of mall security cops(no offense) the US needs to hire consultants from El-Al and start profiling. It doesnt matter that the Israelis only have a fraction of air traffic its all relative. If they have a 100 security staff on hand for 100 flights then the US needs to have the same ration whatever that is, so to use the excuse that they have fewer flights is exactly that an excuse. Id rather see our military trained in this and have them run airport security.One has to wonder though Is The TSA Obama’s National Security Force?youtube.com/watch?v=mlwb48COSS4
Report Post »CHEWYRUNTS
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 11:54amwe need to have real security not the illusion of security. forget about being politically correct. who is a bigger threat between the two. a 6 yr old white girl. or a 32 yr old Arab man dressed in full garb? be logical please. forget about “hurting, or offending” someone. people need to grow up. everyone is so afraid to say or do anything that might offend someone, i would rather the whole world be offended and have real security, then to have this bull plop continue. really a 6 yr old girl huh? wow…
Report Post »walkwithme1966
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 12:09pmIt seems to me that each group of TSA agents in different airports have different rules. Has anyone in TSA thought about writing a SOP – Standard Operating Procedures manual that is the same for each airport and covers every situation instead of making it up as they go along. http://maboulette.wordpress.com
Report Post »hologram5
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 12:14pm@Gold Coin & Economic News
Report Post »What leaders?! You can’t honestly say that the useful tools in DC are actually leaders. They couldn’t lead their way out of a paper bag lying on its side. They are idiots and apologists. They have no common sense whatsoever and honor and integrity?! They left that at the door when they came in.
Polwatcher
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 12:20pmHere we have a TSA agent molesting a 6 year old girl (there is no other way to describe this) and we have all the other agents, supervisors, managers, and government executives in agreement. What the #*%@ is going on! Has everyone lost their mind? Have the progressives completely conned everyone into liberal approved debauchery? I’ll bet the progressives at the top of TSA are laughing hard over our reaction to this. Generally speaking, progressives see nothing wrong with debauchery.
Report Post »snidley-whiplash
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 12:21pmThat is the real problem, they hire only perverts, child molesters. TSA hires those with IQ’s in the range
Report Post »of 2 to 10. This is sickening these people have no reason to be alive. Sad and we pay these molesters.
Finger Follie
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 12:35pmSomewhere in a cave Bin Laden is sitting there reading this story laughing at us and telling his fellow terrorists “we’ve won”.
Report Post »Thun
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 1:03pm@ Gew
I agree, having worked in a prison for 30 years, I witnessed several attempts by visiting relatives using their children to smuggle drugs in. And if suicide bombers are willing to strap bombs on their children, what’s to stop them from using children to take down planes? You can’t have it both ways people, either you want our airlines safe or not?
Report Post »obamanation
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 1:12pmTerrorists are always targeting planes from New Orleans to Kentucky……….
Report Post »Kalshion
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 1:40pm@GODSAMERICA
Naive
Report Post »1TrueOne55
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 2:01pmThe only way to fix this is to get the Airlines to whine about it for you… STOP FLYING When Airports are ghost towns and Airlines see that their bottom line is affected by these sexual predators then something will be done to fix it.
This is an outrage, Obama should be ashamed of this… He is responsible since he is the TSA AGENT in CHIEF he owns this sexual predator Agency…
Report Post »CallMeIshmael
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 2:06pmI wish I was making this up. There is a large magnolia tree in my yard. The neighborhood kids love to play in it. I have caught them playing TSA….. In the sixties we called it something else. Brave New World?
Report Post »goatkid
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 2:48pmeven if they threatened to put me in jail, I would NOT have let them GROPE my daughter. She is so young she can not possibly know what was going on. Of course it was confusing. Her parents taught her that her body is hers. But then she was allowed to be groped.
Report Post »Knight Templar
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 3:09pm@Kalshion
Report Post »I question who is naive.
Polwatcher
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 3:53pm@Thun
There was a terrorist that exploded an arse bomb on a flight in Saudi Arabia. Nobody has suggested a protology exam to get on a flight. There is no way to search everything. Is a stomach bomb next? Or an implanted bomb in the breast? No…the liberals want to get people used to getting groped by authorities under the false pretense of security. Profiling and interviewing is a much more secure way to do this but it don’t fit into the liberal playbook.
Report Post »No1YaKnow
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 4:58pmI’m sick of our government and their talking heads (in this case the commentator) saying this is what we have to do in the world we live in now. B.S. I am never going to understand why it’s okay to treat the citizens of this country ALL like criminals to pacify certain groups that they are not discriminatory. What it comes down to is that terrorists attack us, and WE PAY with our rights. There is a way to catch these people–very simple ways. Look at Israel! Does anyone remember flying before all of this stuff occurred? We didn’t have problems like this. I can remember when the TSA was first introduced–and it was simple. You walked through to make sure you weren’t carrying weapons. That was it. No problems in general. Now, we are expected to show up at the airport hours in advance and go through invasive procedures and stand in unusually long lines to do it. In the amount of time we spend in the airport, in many cases, we could have driven. Given that they aren’t catching a lot of the problems based on their p.c. methods of pat downs, etc.–I think the end goal is to make air transportation a non-option and in so much trouble that they require huge bailouts by the taxpayer. Once that is done, you have G.E. all over again–only with the airline industry, the government gets to ultimately choose if you get to travel AT ALL.
Report Post »jeff.cooper
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 6:48pmTSO‘s being referred to in the story aren’t Agents. Just a little FYI. The process and requirements to become a TSO, an applicant must pass a pre-employment drug screening test and a background investigation, including a criminal check and a credit check. To my most recent knowledge, a psych evaluation is not conducted as a requirement for employment, nor is one administered at any time after employment is gained. There are a lot of people on this planet who have committed crimes and just haven’t been caught.
The TSA isn’t the problem, it is the hiring process to weed out undesirables. Fix that and you will see a dramatic change. Besides, if we dumped the TSA what does anyone suppose we put in it’s place?
Report Post »stackedhippiechick
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 11:18pmIf she was muslim wearing a berka, she would not have been touched. What till you see whats coming next.
Report Post »jackrorabbit
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 12:05amCouldn’t agree more! I have an 8 year old, I would currently be in jail now for assault. There are somethings that don’t need to be done, and scanning or groping kids should be out. I will now be searching to find out what airports have these machines and tactics, and avoid them. Gee, I bet that is what a potential hijacker would do as well. Dumb as bricks in DC. They are three steps behind. From the latest “intel” I read, the potential terrorists are trying to find a way to implant a bomb into their intestinal track or in the abdomen. Can’t be seen by the “super scan” and can’t be felt, because it is squishy like fat. Behind again DC.
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