‘They’re Harassing People’: Family Misses Flight After TSA Comes to Gate to Rescreen Girl With Palsy
- Posted on April 26, 2012 at 8:27am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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“Does this girl look like a terrorist?”
That’s the question The Daily asked in its headline about little Dina Frank, a seven-year-old with cerebral palsy. Why is it asking that? Because Dina’s parents are telling a stunning story about what happened with their daughter this week at a TSA checkpoint in New York.
(Related: TSA pats down 4-year-old girl and defends itself for doing it)
While traveling from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport to Florida this week, Dina and her parents had to endure two separate screenings from TSA. Why two? Because after the agents had cleared Dina one time, they came back later to her gate and told her that wasn’t enough and she was forced to endure it a second time.
“They make our lives completely difficult,” her father, Dr. Joshua Frank, who is a pediatrician, told The Daily. “She’s not a threat to national security.”
The Daily explains the series of events:
With her crutches and orthotics, Dina cannot walk through metal detectors and instead is patted down by security agents. The girl, who is also developmentally disabled, is often frightened by the procedure, her father said.
Marcy Frank usually asks the agents to introduce themselves to her daughter, but those on duty on Monday were exceptionally aggressive, Joshua Frank said, and he began to videotape them with his iPhone.
“And the woman started screaming at me and cursing me and threatening me,” he said.
Eventually, a supervisor decided it was sufficient to inspect Dina’s crutches and allowed the family to leave for the gate.
They were there for an hour before the agents reappeared with a manager to tell them that proper protocol had not been followed, and that Dina had to be screened after all, the Franks said. After initially offering to pat her down at the gate, they insisted she return to the security area, Joshua Frank said.
“So then I got aggravated,” he said.
With Dina now in her wheelchair, Frank raced her across the JetBlue terminal, but by then, the family had missed its plane. The Franks caught a subsequent flight.
The story is a sour ending to recent string of good news. Recently, the CBS station in New York just so happened to profile Dina because of a medical breakthrough of sorts. By getting Botox injections in her legs, Dina has started to walk a bit without the aid of her wheelchair. She’s now started taking strolls around the neighborhood:
But now she’s being profiled again for a different reason. And it‘s something her family just can’t stand.
“They’re harassing people,” Joshua Frank told The Daily. “This is totally misguided policy. Yes, I understand that TSA is in charge of national security and there’s all these threats.”
“For her to be singled out, it’s crazy,” he added.
“They still attack her like she’s Osama bin Laden,” Dina’s mother, Marcy, said. “It’s not fair.”
(H/T: Daily Mail)





















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RHO1953
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 9:28amThis is our wonderful Nazi regime in action.
Report Post »c0mm0nsense
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 9:37amHR 5005 Establishing the Department of Homeland Security. This is good place to start. Did you vote for someone that supported this bill? Check it out at “Project Vote Smart”
Report Post »Texas Chris
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 10:55amThose who are willing to give up their freedom for a little securety will end up with neither.
Report Post »teamarcheson
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 11:24amIs That Little Girl Still A Virgin After Being Sexually Touched By TSA
If a TSA agent will grab the genitals of a US Congressman they would violate the genitals of a little girl.
Report Post »How much more of this are the men of America going to take? How much more?
FlamingFartSyndrome
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 11:31amBaby steps…
Report Post »KenInIL
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 11:55amThe TSA is trying to use Islamist logic. In their culture, this cute little girl would be a “throw-away” person. So they would load her up with bombs and “throw her away”. She was profiled !! So lets do anal exams on folks wearing Muslim clothes — after all it has been shown they are not above putting explosives up their insides to accomplish their goals. (It was done in Saudi Arabia by a man being interviewed by a high official — it didn’t work, the terrorist was blown into pieces, but no one else was hurt.)
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 12:23pmAs I pointed out in the “Congressman Details Gropey TSA Encounter — And How the Agent Wanted to Press Charges After He Complained” story, the Nazis did not pull this kind of sh*t.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 12:30pmOne of these days one of these idiots will attempt this kind of pedophilia upon the child or grandchild of some nearby crusty retired combat veteran SF, Delta, or SEAL with PTSD. After it takes about twenty or more other agents to peel the veteran off of the offending agent he will have gotten what he deserved…well, for the most part. I hope to see a lawsuit regarding this 4th Amendment violation to finally make it’s way into the right court that will actually hear it. Regardless which way the case goes, it should also make it’s way to the Supreme Court.
Report Post »Maji
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 12:33pmThese stories don’t seem to make a dent!!!
They’re doing this (making it hard) to show you they can and you will
take it!
Don’t you remember “BIG Sister’s” rersponse last year?
Report Post »She said they would not be intimidated! (the goverment) they would proceed!!
ijava44
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 12:43pmThey needed to buy more time so the baggage handlers could steal the famlies luggage.
Report Post »ProbIemSoIver
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 3:19pm@TEAMARCHESON
The Russians used to put fluoride in the drinking water of their Circus Bears to keep them from attacking their handlers.
What has everybody been drinking lately?
Report Post »AZRACISTBIGOT
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 3:33pmA Congressman, a 90 year old granny, a 4 year old girl and now a 7 year old girl suffering from creberal palsey.
What next?
Certainly not young middle eastern looking men or women in Burqas
That would be profiling and it might offend their delicate muslim sensibilities
Political Correctnes and multiculturalism are just two of the mental disorders affecting the liberal mind.
Report Post »toto
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 6:20pmGeez, it’s time for us all to don burkas so they will leave us alone! Sick and sad that it would probably work.
Report Post »toto
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 6:23pmOn Beck’s show tomorrow there will be liberals that advocate putting kids like this “down”. After what has happened to Nugent and others, it would not surprise me in the least that they would actually do it. These people are worse than wrong, they are evil.
Report Post »Jaycen
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 2:56amThe right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Report Post »lgccac
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 9:27amTSA agents like to sexually molest children. Their job has nothing to do with safety.
Report Post »rawmilker
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 10:08amWhere’s the professionalism, integrity, the respect? There is none, these goons are clearly out of control and over the top. Can you imagine if these clowns ever get the approval to carry weapons?
Seriously, it’s time for them to suffer some humiliation. There needs to be an event where several of them get their a s s beat & handed to them on a platter, & bring them down off their high horse. Check that, not handed to them,….more like shoved down their slimey throats, their potbellies stomped on and faces drug onto the tarmac….
Report Post »myway
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 10:15amThat is clear! Can someone give me one example of TSA stopping any threat or finding a threat after groping the whole damn country?
Report Post »Truthbeliever2
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 10:20amTSA agents are part of the lowest form of humanity. They get paid next to nothing working in a government mandated job. I mean come on; Is there a lower form of the “so called” working public? I tell ya they give DPS a run for their money in the race for assinine slugs working for the government.
Report Post »kim
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 11:31amthats right if that was my kid i would have walked out the dorr and told them to kiss my ass these are baby and kids they are doing this to i will never fly now i would be in jail fast
Report Post »Redwood Elf
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 10:33pmHey, it‘s a child molester’s dream job!
No TSA screener ever caught a terrorist, nor ever will. They don’t think the terrorists STUDY the screening procedures?
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 9:22amThere’s a special place in hell for the animals that would abuse this child. That would talk crudely in front of her, that would make her life harder. I pray for them to obtain a real soul, and mend their ways.
Report Post »VeritasOmniaVinculaVincit
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 9:39amTrue.
Report Post »Bill Rowland
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 5:05pmWhen you hire high school dropouts that can’t hold job at McDonalds, and give them a little authority this is what you get.
I will bet that Holdup and fat Janet want to arm them and give them police powers. Then they can arrest the folks and put handcuffs on them. Can you imagine this young lady or the little girl who went back for her grandmother under arrest. The training (?) they recieve seems to put some strange ideas in their heads.
Of course they don’t do this to people in arab garb with burkas and those long robes, that would be profilingm they get a pass.
Someone recently suggested that we quit flying for 3 months. I quit right after TSA started screening. But if everyone did it for just 3 months, things would change for the better.
OMG 2012
Report Post »PPMStudios
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 9:21amI’m all for safety but, TSA is nothing more than the ‘Brown Shirts’ squad for Her Highness Janet Napolitano and her boss, Barry the Wonder-god….
Report Post »Texas Chris
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 10:58amThe people best suited to provide security on an airplane are the people who own the airplane.
Government has no incentive to protect the public, nor the property. In fact, if government FAILS to protect either, it’s budget and scope of power increase.
That’s right. Government has more incentive to FAIL at security than it has to succeed.
Abolish the TSA. Vote Ron Paul.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 12:42pmTHXLL38 Quite the absurd statement. President Nixon started the EPA. After he left office he was not responsible for the horrendous national agency it became. I was never happy with many of the things that President Bush did myself. But President Bush does not have any control over the TSA any more than I have control over the sun coming up in the East. Bush is out of the picture, unless you are in the 0bama boat of blame Bush for everything idiots…and after reading some of your other posts, I consider you to be smarter than that. The current TSA has grown into what it is under this administration and it’s oversight is the responsibility of Janet Napolitano, a member of 0bama’s cabinet.
Report Post »Dde13
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 9:20amI’m sure terrorist are seeing this and having a good laugh at our expense. (@Josie, I agree) The TSA has to stop and let private company’s hired by the airlines do the screening. The airlines have more at stake to treat their customers with dignity. The TSA hired by the government could care less.
Report Post »frogg
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 9:19amTSA and the Dept of HLS is out of control. I do not think that we asked for the Gestapo when we set these up. Congressmen messed with little children that like Dine pose no threat. It’s time to crash and burn then before we get boxcared off to concentration camps and gassed. And don’t think that they would never dare to do it. They woult in a heart beat!
Report Post »DesertPaine
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 9:18amSo. Many of you are outraged about rights. By golly, you are going to do something about it this time. That is, for the couple of more hours that this story has our attention. Then it will be back to wholesale giving up of rights: accepting and even demanding unconstitutional/extraconstitutional govt interventions in your lives. Behaving on cue so you won’t get in trouble – filing a 1040, traveling with a license, &c &c &c &c &c &c &c &c. Then, feign outrage at the next intrusion for a couple of hours. Then, start the process all over again.
Report Post »Goosizdead
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 12:45pmI hear you. So, what do your suggest? What are you doing about it?
Report Post »palmettopalflorida
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 9:13amThe TSA has nothing to do with providing security for the American People. Instead it is about control. It is pure totalitarian fascism at its most basic level.
Report Post »Duey2000
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 9:11amSan Fransisco is the only major airport that doesn’t use the TSA for their security. They use a private firm and guess what? They have among the highest marks for courtesy and service AND SECURITY!!! All of the other airports that have requested to hire their own private firms have been denied by the dept of homeland security because they simply like having the control over the airports. John Stossel just did a report on it for his new book.
Report Post »Texas Chris
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 10:59amStossel’s book is a good read.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 12:52pmDUEY2000, Pelosi finds the hassle personally disgusting….imagine that!
Report Post »sndrman
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 9:10ami’ve told this story before. my son was going back to his military base after visiting us for his yearly vacation. when we took him to the airport my mother who can barely walk walks with a cane and we have to get for her a wheel chair…what they did to her her was beyond belief…. my wife had to hold be back ,,why does the tsa go after the young and disabled?
Report Post »Bloody Sam
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 9:19amIt‘s called ’Low hanging fruit’.
Report Post »THXll38
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 9:07amThe TSA is part of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) of its 187 agencies. We can thank Mr Bush that helped consolidate them into the DHS via the Homeland Security Act of 2002. Bush signed in the TSA in 2001 with the help of the 107th US Congress which was supposed to be part of DOT, but moved to the DHS in 2003. That said, I have no idea why you social neo cons are blaming Obama. When it comes to crapping on the Constitution in the 21st century, Bush did a fantastic job — Obama is just following threw as will Romney.
Report Post »Rayblue
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 9:52amAfter the wikipedia enumeration of the great mystery of TSA history, Obamas sons still act like, well, Obamas sons. Obama is just a patsy that follows whatever Bush did to compensate for his lack of a provable education. And don’t forget to throw the Romney prediction in also. It isn’t enough to blame the past. The future is blamed already. Quite a bit of coverage I’d say.
Report Post »Goosizdead
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 1:09pmI don‘t know who you’re calling “social neo cons” or why it’s necessary for you to put a blanket label on people who find this story more than objectionable; however, if you assume that everyone who thinks Obama is doing a terrible job is an automatic Bush supporter, you just aren’t paying attention. I’m not sure when we last had a “real” president or even a “real” elected member of the U.S. Congress. It seems to me they’ve nearly ALL been doing some level of crapping on the constitution AND on the American people–you and me included–for a very long time! If we really started listening to each other instead of name-calling, we might find we have more in common than we realize.
Report Post »jujubeebee
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 9:01amThis breaks my heart. How many terrorists have the TSA caught since they have been doing this? It seems the TSA is the terrorist. I’d rather take my chances and get on a plane like in the old days. I have had one of those extreme patdowns and it is unnecessary. I am okay with profiling and am okay with not allowing people from certain terrorist countries into the US. I am not okay with what they are doing to our citizens who want to fly.
Report Post »shotzie
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 9:01amDear The Blaze, Please continue to post each and every story referencing these insane antics by the TSA. I repost them everywhere I can. Keep putting them in front of as many eyeballs as I can. Hoping and praying the GOOD people of the USA will begin to stand up and demand a more efficient and less traumatic screening process.
Report Post »Abraham Young
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 9:00amCollectivists are bound by regulations and broad rules that no individual is permitted to question. The collectivist central planning authority believes that all decisions must be made at the top, and the bottom has to put up with it.
Welcome to the Third Reich. Welcome to the Utopian vision. Welcome to the Stalag, Komrads. Resistance is futile. Prepare to be assimilated you racist tea party individualists.
Report Post »josie
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 8:59amnothing will change until the people rise up and start forming a group that will put pressure on the tsa and the govt. Saul Alinsky people don’t care about anyone or anything but their agenda, and that is to rule over all people, sickening
Report Post »scuba13
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 8:58amWhile everybody is distracted by the TSA molesting a 9 year old girl with palsy, the other TSA agents are smuggling cocaine heroin and meth.
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 9:10amAND steal YOUR belongings right out from under your nose while they are molesting you. TOOK $400. from my husband, but HOW do you PROVE that? I HATE THE TSA screenings. Another government RIP OFF!
Report Post »loveoursoldiers
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 9:11amand stealing ipads
Report Post »alpha2omega47
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 8:54amCitizens and patriots need to boycott air travel until they throw TSA out on their ears. The TSA should be closed down and airports should have security companies and Police checking passengers. I; personally, won’t ever fly again.
Report Post »blanco5
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 9:00amI think that is the leftys’ goal—-to get us to not fly again, have airlines go out of busiiness while only gov run ones remain, get rid of cars, and control/restrict the peasants with trains and buses.
Report Post »poorrichard09
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 9:02amThe war on terror is over-so says 0bama & Co., so disband this bunch of losers.
Report Post »Marine 1
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 9:26amSearching little children with disabilities — what a joke. Bye, bye 1st and 4th Amendments. Quit flying for just a month and see what happens.
The TSA only exists to control the people. The Patriot Act is used to control the people. The Department of Homeland Security exists to control the people. Welcome to your new Amerika, Comrades!
If you all can’t see the slow takeover of the people by the power elite then you have had your head in the sand. If you think that 9/11 was what you were told it was then the power elite did their job perfectly and you have been had. The largest “crime scene” in the world was covered up by the power elite. Three buildings fall straight down on themselves — one never hit by anything –Wrong!
I have a friend that is a retired Brigadier General and Command Pilot with the USAF. He was also a flight instructor for various commercial aircraft after he retired. We’ve talked! The bottom line is that if you seriously believe that some unqualified terrorist-pilot did what qualified military and commercial pilots with thousands of hours of could never do then the power elite did their job exceptionally well. Pentagon — Can you say Cruise Missile or Predator Drone? No bodies–no seats–no titanium engine parts–no tail section–no wiring strewn about and so on.
It’s all tied in and the final objective is to control the population.
Bush, Obama, and others are nothing more than the puppets for the big dogs on the block.
Wake up!
Report Post »vilma
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 8:54amNinety percent of the tsa are total idiots who could not find a real job as is 75 percent of all the free loading government imployees. And who is really to blam? Yep, you and I. We stood by and watched the government grow into this horrible beast that is unbreakable now. We don’t have the balls to vote them out, too busy playing games, watching porn and TV. Our armed services just **** canned the Bible. What in hell is wrong with you obozo sheep?
Report Post »travelboy1
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 1:21pmI agree with most all you say except the complaint the armed forces removed “the Bible”. People are fed up with military commanders commandeering bases to force feed Christian Fundamentalist Bible readings at bases and being virtually mandatory. There are many beliefs out there, obsessively force feeding one is not valid and that’s why it was removed. I am God-fearing, religious, all American and always Republican but fed up with the obsession with one religion force fed by our latest Republican cantidates and on military bases. Let them deal with their issues which I am all for and keep their obsession with one religion force fed to this country at campaign stops and in their agenda out of it once and for all.
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 8:52amIf you fly, you give up your 4th Ammendment rights. PERIOD!
Report Post »Stop flying and this crap will end!
loveoursoldiers
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 9:21amI haven’t flown since 2009 because of this. I have a knee replacement and I either have to be assaulted or radiated and stripped in the scanner.
Report Post »I have to fly in August for a wedding. I am preparing myself for abuse by the TSA.
The last time I was scanned I was left in there for @ 5-10 minutes and scanned over and over because the perv in the backroom kept telling the operator there was something in my pocket.. of course there wasn’t. Finally I said” hey, what’s going on here”?
I had the impression they were doing this on purpose? why…. 42C maybe? Later I was walking through the airport a a few male workers walking towards me were smirking.. hmmmmm..
So in August I get stripped again and/or assaulted. I hope I make it to the wedding. If anyone puts their dirty gloves down my underwear in the middle of the airport…………………………………..I just don’t know how I will handle it.
recoveringneocon
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 11:43am@ Baddoggy
Report Post »And when you pull up to a checkpoint on the Hwy.? Then what? Stop driving?
De minimus
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 8:51amSeriously? Only two objections? Wait till you see what’s coming. I bet you‘ll object at some point but you big brother doesn’t care what you think or want anymore. They just decided to take over and make you pay for it.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 8:49amPoor kid. That breaks my heart.
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 9:06amFirst time I EVER heard if TSA coming to a gate and rescreening anyone, was when I was sitting at a gate in PSP and TSA walked up and asked me to remove my boots. That was B4 the shoebummer. I used to get secondary screening 75% of the time. I kinda guess they are profiling below the radar, and that they finally cleared me and flagged me as okay.
Now, I dream of a nation where we are free.
“…The greatest of these is charity!”
Report Post »love the kids
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 8:39amThanks Obama, just wait till they are unionized. It sounds like they purposely waited until their flight was ready to leave to make them miss the plane. If proper protocall wasn’t followed, then I hope there were TSA agents fired.
Report Post »dwelliver696
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 12:03pmWhat makes you think they aren’t already unionized? A large percentage of government workers are already.
Report Post »1956
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 8:39amOne day, a TSA agent will go too far. I can only pray this house of cards will come crashing down. Targeting children and the elderly has to stop. I wish there was a way that we would all stop flying for a month – I’d bet the airline industry would get the point…. and make their voices heard in Washington.
If the government and the airlines don’t get the message, we are doomed to more Nazi like police state fascist treatment in the future.
Report Post »Popp40
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 8:38amBut didn’t Obama say the war on Terrorism is over. So why is the TSA still needed if the war is over? Oh wait that’s right….it is to control us the citizens.
Report Post »progressiveslayers
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 8:46amWe’ve never had a war on terrorism or poverty or drugs,the war is on the constitution and it‘s been going on for over a century and sadly for us we’re witnessing the death of our republic.
Report Post »PATRIOTMAMA
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 8:47am@ POPP40
You’re absolutely right!!! If the war on terror is over then the threat then must be over and since Al Queda can go through legitimate channels like the Muslim Brotherhood than TSA isn’t needed any longer. You can’t have it both way Obama!!! You either do away with the TSA or you have to admit that the War on Terror is absolutely still raging and even being ramped up against us for another attack. Which is it Mr.President. Excuse me, Your Majesty.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 8:35amGet rid of the blasted TSA already!!!
Report Post »NOBALONEY
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 9:32amAbsolutely!
Report Post »momrules
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 11:42amSNOW……….The TSA isn’t going to go away. It is too big, too useful to the Regime and it is expanding as we speak. They are on buses in Houston, the roads with VIPIR and will ony get more intrusive in our everyday lives.
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