TSA Officials Ask Elderly Woman With Leukemia to Remove Adult Diaper
- Posted on June 26, 2011 at 9:08pm by
Christopher Santarelli
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A 95-year-old woman was detained and extensively searched while trying to board a plane to Michigan Saturday in order to be with family members during the final stages of her battle with leukemia. The Panama City News Herald reports that the woman’s daughter is now filing a complaint with the Department of Homeland Security for asking her wheelchair-bound mother to remove her adult diaper to complete a pat-down search. FoxNews.com was able able to obtain the displayed photo of the mother and daughter from a 2010 trip to New Orleans.
“It‘s something I couldn’t imagine happening on American soil.” said the daughter.
A spokeswoman for the Transportation Security Administration in Miami could not give a comment to reporters because she could not comment on specific cases to protect the privacy of those involved. The 105-pound harassed woman entered the airport’s security checkpoint in a wheelchair because she was not stable enough to walk through.
“TSA cannot exempt any group from screening because we know from intelligence that there are terrorists out there that would then exploit that vulnerability,” said the spokeswoman.
After filing a complaint, the daughter received a reponse from a Homeland Security representative that told her personnel had only followed procedures during the search.
“Then I thought, if you’re just following rules and regulations, then the rules and regulations need to be changed,” said the daughter.
“I’m not one to make waves, but dadgummit, this is wrong. People need to know. Next time it could be you.”



















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Comments (164)
damrite1969
Posted on June 27, 2011 at 12:48amthis is wrong all day long, these meatheads are so out of control.. I wouldn’t take a plane to anywhere.. cause if they laid one hand on my winkie we would be fist fighting… Nope not me.. I’ll stay one the ground and let the fools ride in planes.. I can smoke and play with my winkie myself in my car if I decide to..
Report Post »suran
Posted on June 27, 2011 at 12:48amDear Lord, she looks SO dangerous! What is wrong with these pervert government employees (though perhaps the word “government” gives it all away)? Dump them all. Smaller government. What an embarrassment! This was absolutely not part of my upbringing!
Report Post »ZaphodsPlanet
Posted on June 27, 2011 at 12:46amJanet Napolitano should have to eat her diaper. Freaking insane. The spend so much time going through the diapers of 2 year olds and grandies, but a freaking bearded Muslim carrying hand grenades but wearing a burqua would be allowed to walk right on through to the plane. Napolitano and BO should both be in jail for what they are doing with the TSA.
Report Post »LB
Posted on June 27, 2011 at 12:34amwe need to stop flying whenever possible. Families can enjoy a good old fashion car ride. Those are some of the best of my memories and my now grown children. If I ask them if they remember the flights we took to some of our destinations, they don’t.
Report Post »riseandshine
Posted on June 27, 2011 at 1:29amThere you go…nice thought
Report Post »AmeriCat
Posted on June 27, 2011 at 12:32amTSA groping all began quietly and abruptly…
a mandate from above,
clearly to intimidate
and condition the masses to accept tyrannical authority.
Report Post »Teaparty-grammy
Posted on June 27, 2011 at 3:23amI agree, which is why I don’t fly–I will NOT submit to this!
Report Post »TOPOFTHEGAME
Posted on June 27, 2011 at 12:28amI believe all of this is ORCHESTRATED, just like all the MSM calling Tea Party people racist, There are pushing,,,pushing they want US not the SEIU’s and libs to take to the streets…..Lets all keep our COOL. And remember the BALLOT BOXES ______________________________________________ Say are there any Okies out that can answer my question…Why did Congressman Don Nickles (r) introduce S,2128 on Feb.25,2004 to change the definition of ”natural born citizen”? co-sponsors were Congressman’s James Inhofe (r) and Mary Lanrieu (d)….Did they know something that was coming up for the elections ??????????
Report Post »Mimi24
Posted on June 27, 2011 at 12:22amI wouldn’t fly if it were free. What do you think this is doing to our airlinesl.
Report Post »Elena2010
Posted on June 27, 2011 at 12:09amAmerica — STOP flying until these morons get their heads out of their and our collective fannies!
Profiling and bomb sniffing dogs are far more effective than hijacking what little bit of pride a cancer patient still has.
Report Post »Suanniiq
Posted on June 27, 2011 at 12:08amYou cannot beat that good logic–END TSA NOW!
Report Post »Stu D. Baker-Hawk
Posted on June 27, 2011 at 12:02amI’ve stopped flying. Why? Because of the minimum-wage idiots with little education who have been put in charge of our ‘so-called’ safety. A dripping pox on all of them!
Report Post »Mimi24
Posted on June 27, 2011 at 12:29amAgree. It sucks but I drive everywhere now no planes or trains until sure safe.
Report Post »riseandshine
Posted on June 27, 2011 at 12:49amIf I fly, maybe I’ll wear depends and leave them something gooey to find inside.
Report Post »mossbrain
Posted on June 27, 2011 at 12:01amWho caused this mess, Muslims, Arabs, Pakis, Somalians… Well, is there a political candidate who will crack down on these groups? If there is, who is it.
Report Post »Elena2010
Posted on June 27, 2011 at 12:42amLet’s pack them all up and send them back to where they came from, unless they can demonstrate they are really Christians.
We have enough brains here to take up the slack fm all those educated muslims we import or educate for free.
Report Post »Southernguy
Posted on June 27, 2011 at 9:41amI’d sure be!!
Report Post »Treaty
Posted on June 26, 2011 at 11:51pmClearly she fits the profile of a terrorist.
Report Post »Tropla
Posted on June 26, 2011 at 11:46pmHussein does not like bullies: http://biggovernment.com/jerikson/2011/06/26/the-individual-mandate-bullies-americans/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BigGovernment+%28Big+Government%29.
Report Post »shirlgirl63
Posted on June 26, 2011 at 11:45pmGoing through security at the statue of Liberty I was asked to take off my hat while a Muslim women was let through with her scarf on. Go figure who’s running this country. not us anymore.
Report Post »Uncle Sammy
Posted on June 26, 2011 at 11:37pm“A spokeswoman for the Transportation Security Administration in Miami could not give a comment to reporters because she could not comment on specific cases to protect the privacy of those involved. ”
Report Post »This from an agency that publicly gropes children ????? This from an agency that forces American citizens to allow a stranger to fondle our genitalia in order to board a plane ????? And this is called “security” ????? Monsters, degenerates, pedophiles, disgusting wretches !!! And we call ourselves free..
NoStoppingUs
Posted on June 26, 2011 at 11:35pmAt least we know who will be stuffing us into rail cars. The Blue Shirted TSA.
Report Post »Cherynn
Posted on June 26, 2011 at 11:35pmfrigging PATHETIC. Thank God for TSA,,,,,,,,not everyone is smart enough to get a job at mcdonalds
Report Post »Mimi24
Posted on June 26, 2011 at 11:33pmOh My Lord. So sorry you had to go through that with your Mom. Prayers for y’all.
Report Post »Mimi24
Posted on June 27, 2011 at 12:11amPlease seek our living God while you can. John 3:16. The Bible will be taken from us. Please hide it in your hearts, as a sword and a shield. The time is coming when we can’t they will deny the written word.
Report Post »TumbleBumble
Posted on June 26, 2011 at 11:31pmThis is absolutely sickening. Why don’t they just have us take all of our clothes off and run around them in a circle until they approve.
How much longer can we take this?
Report Post »abbygirl1994
Posted on June 26, 2011 at 11:29pmI hope TSA rots in hell o!
Report Post »TennesseeConservative
Posted on June 27, 2011 at 9:00amNext time we see this crap, lets have a flash mob, take them outside and humiliate them, film it put on youtube.See how they like it. We surround them.
Report Post »rose-ellen
Posted on June 27, 2011 at 10:53am“may they rot in hell”; ooh americnism-such a peaceful religion!.
Report Post »davidwjohnson
Posted on June 26, 2011 at 11:26pm“After filing a complaint, the daughter received a response from a Homeland Security representative that told her personnel had only followed procedures during the search.”
Isn’t this the excuse given by guards at Auschwitz?
We better rise up before it’s too late!
Report Post »Mimi24
Posted on June 26, 2011 at 11:42pmI think all Christians will be in Fema camps soon. They will come first for us Blazers. We can’t keep our mouths shut.
Report Post »Teaparty-grammy
Posted on June 27, 2011 at 3:17amYep, their primary defense during the Nuremburg trials was, “I was only obeying orders.” That was not considered a defense for the Nazis in WWII, and it is not a defense for the TSA Nazis now. I hope all the liberal moonbats who support this “regime” realize that this is just the beginning of the “invasive procedures” we’ll see put into effect if these Communist a$$ holes have their way, and I daresay they won’t just apply to Conservatives or 95-year-old, terinally ill women.
Report Post »Dougral Supports Israel
Posted on June 26, 2011 at 11:23pmThis is another issue that needs to be addressed by Congress. The TSA is out of control and must be reined in. Making a 95 year old person remove their Depends is an outrage There has to be a better way to screen people than the brute force methods they are using.
Report Post »Steve
Posted on June 27, 2011 at 12:16amGonna have to work through their communist Union Bosses first.
Report Post »Twins Dad in NH
Posted on June 27, 2011 at 12:46amNow we have to file our complaints through Richard Trumpka?
Won’t THAT make everything BETTER????
Report Post »rose-ellen
Posted on June 27, 2011 at 9:08amAmericanism-such a decent ,honorable religion.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on June 26, 2011 at 11:20pmPersonally, I amj ashamed of the TSA, the Department of Homeland Security, the BUREAU of ATF (under Homeland Security), and quite frankly, most of the Members of Congress.
What this lady was subjected to is beyond the pale. All this administration seems interested in is NUDGING, regulating, and taking our money to spend and continue its agenda of driving the COUNTRY off the cliff — forget Grandma!
Report Post »saviorammo
Posted on June 27, 2011 at 12:29amMay they all burn in hell, along with monicne and the like. It is getting to a boiling point by design. They have no idea what this push back will be like.
There will be no where for our reps. to run and hide. Even the limestone caves in Kentucky won’t save them.
Our entire government is guilty. Just letting this one occurence and it hasn’t been just one, occurr is a disgrace to all law abiding Americans.
Let the games begin!
Report Post »Robert-CA
Posted on June 27, 2011 at 1:47amWhat happened to profiling ????????
Report Post »Bring it back .
Bill_
Posted on June 26, 2011 at 11:19pmjesus wept……
Report Post »SLARTIBARTFAST
Posted on June 26, 2011 at 11:41pmI think we’ll all be weeping over this. How can this happen here?
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on June 27, 2011 at 1:11amSLARTIBARTFAST Because we let it………….
Report Post »SgtB
Posted on June 27, 2011 at 1:16am@ slartibartfast, did you pick your handle while listening to a crossdressing comedian?
Report Post »SLARTIBARTFAST
Posted on June 27, 2011 at 6:25amSgtB
Report Post »@ slartibartfast, did you pick your handle while listening to a crossdressing comedian?
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It’s the name of a character from “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”. So the answer to your question is “No”. Guess you’ll just have to go back to looking under rocks fo that special one just for you.
dcwu
Posted on June 26, 2011 at 11:12pmWhat, no cavity search?
Report Post »MONICNE
Posted on June 26, 2011 at 11:19pmAccording to the Blaze, this is hearsay. Lets see if charges are actually filed before we believe this one-sided shock story that has no verification! Notice she has no badge numbers or names to give us.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on June 26, 2011 at 11:22pm@Encinom -
You haven’t learned to read yet, I see. The story said nothing about CHARGES being filed.
“The Panama City News Herald reports that the woman’s daughter is now filing a complaint with the Department of Homeland Security ….”
Report Post »silentwatcher
Posted on June 26, 2011 at 11:30pmand do they direct muslims to remove their towels from their head? remove their underwear? do ANYTHING that would offend them? Nope. they want a handicapped elderly woman to remove her diaper.
I imagine it would be VERY DIFFICULT to maintain a sense of pride in that job.
Report Post »NoStoppingUs
Posted on June 26, 2011 at 11:47pmDemocrat party operative moncine lies and impugns every article posted here. It is amazing to behold. How did the left in this country become so morally bankrupt?
The TSA has alrady posted a response stating that they followed established procedure.
But the lying insincere agitator will impugn, malign, and ridicule till it is blue in the face.
Must suck to be such a failure.
Report Post »masterplan
Posted on June 27, 2011 at 12:06amhttp://www.infowars.com/world-war-iii-defined-wider-war-unfolding-in-middle-east/
Are they checking ****** diapers ?
Report Post »Oil_Robb
Posted on June 27, 2011 at 12:10amIts disgusting……..Unless the TSA agent Thought that the green lepricon hat was a BURQA because muslims are taking Ireland over also.
Report Post »Oil_Robb
Posted on June 27, 2011 at 12:12am@SILENTWATCHER…….not even the TSA has the stomach to look under that Muslim Awnig that they wear
Report Post »Elena2010
Posted on June 27, 2011 at 12:14am@MONICNE — Get back in your box, dearie…you are not adding to the conversation. You are trying to throw dirt into the crankcase. Stick to the facts or state your opinion abt the facts. You did neither on this post.
Report Post »Mimi24
Posted on June 27, 2011 at 12:14amThis sucks with the bigness. Leave Grandma the freaking hell alone.
Report Post »THETRUTHWORKS
Posted on June 27, 2011 at 12:18amIt’s all about goverment taker over. One little thing at a time. Watch this and learn the truth about obama!
http://www.silverbearcafe.com/private/12.09/obamadeception.html
Report Post »CatB
Posted on June 27, 2011 at 12:27amMy God this woman is going home to DIE … Nice “send off” by the TSA. We can’t “profile” because it will hurt some Terrorists feelings .. but they will go after a dying grannie. Disgusting POS TSA.
Enough .. everyone needs to contact their Congressmen and women NOW!
TEA!
* I am.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on June 27, 2011 at 12:34amDear Senator :
This unaccountable TSA MUST be stopped .. they are assauting people on a daily basis .. and this is so over the top .. it is disgusting….
“TSA Officials Ask Elderly Woman With Leukemia to Remove Adult Diaper”
“A 95-year-old woman was detained and extensively searched while trying to board a plane to Michigan Saturday in order to be with family members during the final stages of her battle with leukemia. The Panama City News Herald reports that the woman’s daughter is now filing a complaint with the Department of Homeland Security for asking her wheelchair-bound mother to remove her adult diaper to complete a pat-down search.”
Enough of this INSANITY while they let people who ARE possible (and have gotten gotten on planes– remember underwear and shoe bombers) terrorists right through .. wouldn’t want to OFFEND THEM… WELL I AM OFFENDED AT THIS! Enough!
Sincerely,
Report Post »My name
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VegasGuy
Posted on June 27, 2011 at 2:12amThe answer is simple. Boycott all flying anywhere. With no business the airlines and Feds will quickly buckle to the loss of income and tax revenue.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on June 27, 2011 at 2:52am@CatB ~
Cat, that is an excellent letter! Thank you.
Report Post »Teaparty-grammy
Posted on June 27, 2011 at 2:57am@ MONICNE Posted: “According to the Blaze, this is hearsay. Lets see if charges are actually filed before we believe this one-sided shock story that has no verification! Notice she has no badge numbers or names to give us.”
Awww, Encinom, you silly little troll, you are as bad as the Mainstream Media who either try to spin a story like this to make it fit their bias, or omit it from the news altogether. I read the entire story, and saw not one word about “hearsay” or “no badge numbers”, etc. Probably will not see this one on the MSM, because it reflects negatively on the ODUMBER administration. DUMBER is the operative word here. Whatever happened to COMMON SENSE? I’m sure a 95- year old, terminally ill woman in a wheelchair is a TERRIBLE threat to airline security. But that guy who ran down the aisle screaming “Allah Akbar” — well, I bet they didn’t even pat him down. He apparently had no trouble getting on the plane, even if he DID have a passport from Yemen, which should have made him suspect, right there. Oh, but I forgot–THAT would be profiling, so it is necessary to harrass 95-year-old terminally ill white people to “prove” we’re not profiling. What idiocy, and typical of the leftwing moonbats who have taken over our government!
Report Post »Marci
Posted on June 27, 2011 at 2:59amEncinom–do you have nothing better to do than troll the Blaze and hope their story is hearsay? The story is the story, and this has been going on for quite some time. I have a better idea. Grow a pair and tell us you AGREE WITH THE TSA and their invasive procedures on Americans while willfully and brazenly ignoring those who do pose a threat out of political correctness. If you in fact, do not agree with that, your point here is only that you hate The Blaze and Glenn Beck. Take a number–you are in a sea of angry moonbats on that one and no one cares. Your voice has been lost because you are a useful idiot doing the bidding of progressives. AMAZING.
Report Post »Marci
Posted on June 27, 2011 at 3:02amVegas Guy–unfortunately, that is part of the plan. Once the airlines start to go under, the government nationalizes them. TSA is the mechanism that is being used to overtake them.
Report Post »Teaparty-grammy
Posted on June 27, 2011 at 3:03am@ silentwatcher who Posted: “and do they direct muslims to remove their towels from their head? remove their underwear? do ANYTHING that would offend them? Nope. they want a handicapped elderly woman to remove her diaper.
I imagine it would be VERY DIFFICULT to maintain a sense of pride in that job.”
PRIDE???? Hah! The goons and thugs our government hires for these TSA jobs probably take great PLEASURE in harrassing white passengers in this way–especially those who cannot defend themselves against this kind of invasion of privacy. This totally violates the Constitutional guarantees against “unreasonable search and seizure” — all so we can avoid “offending” a Muslim or two, who should not be allowed on the plane until they have been THOROUGHLY checked, if not stripped and cavity searched! Yeah, I know that is profiling, but it’s also common sense, when ALL the would-be airplane terrorists have been of that persuasion to at least LOOK at them, instead of letting them waltz right past with their underwear full of C4 while they all but strip-search a terminally ill 95-year-old woman.
Report Post »Teaparty-grammy
Posted on June 27, 2011 at 3:06am@ VegasGuy who Posted: “The answer is simple. Boycott all flying anywhere. With no business the airlines and Feds will quickly buckle to the loss of income and tax revenue.”
Amen to that! I do not and will not go anywhere that I can’t drive. To HE!! with the airlines and TSA and ODumber, too. I will not submit to this outrageous harrassment–and that is all it is.
Report Post »GadsdenPatriot
Posted on June 27, 2011 at 5:05amThere is no excuse anymore to support the losing of liberties for security. Either you support the terrorists, or the freedom on which the United States of America stands. The line has been drawn.
Report Post »Marylou7
Posted on June 27, 2011 at 5:58am@SILENTWATCHER
I imagine it would be VERY DIFFICULT to maintain a sense of pride in that job.
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The TSA just showed how they feel about America by voting the AFL-CIO to represent them. How can anyone with pride and honor ever work for the TSA OR join the AFL-CIO.
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on June 27, 2011 at 6:19amI hope it was really wet and she handed it to her! How absurd is that, and their justification even more so.
Report Post »LIBSALWAYSLIE
Posted on June 27, 2011 at 7:03amEncinom, you are too stupid to understand how ignorant you are. Think about it if, you can even think at all.
Report Post »anOpinion
Posted on June 27, 2011 at 7:04amThe TSA must be disbanded, it is an utter disgrace.
I can just imagine the headlines if Hell had a newspaper:
Osama Bin Laden was seen smiling in Hell today as he stated “9/11 was just the bite, but the lingering effect of fear and appeasement is the poison that will ultimately destroy America and the west. We don’t even need Al Queda anymore, America will destroy itself.”
Report Post »Dahart
Posted on June 27, 2011 at 7:33amJust a snapshot of the coming union thuggery……
Report Post »Mr. Oshawott
Posted on June 27, 2011 at 7:34amThis is BEYOND HORRIFIC! A 95-year-old mother, being forced to submit herself to government-sponsered rape. THIS IS UTTERLY OUTRAGEOUS! END THE TSA NOW!!!
Report Post »Cobra Blue
Posted on June 27, 2011 at 8:00amOne question? What are WE THE PEOPLE going to do about this? Sue? Big deal. That strikes fear in no one. Get ready for more. Why? Because we the people continue roll over and over and over. All we do is talk. And the left keeps marching on.
Report Post »Sound The Trumpet In Zion
Posted on June 27, 2011 at 8:17am@dcwu
Report Post »Apparently they tried since they were making her take of her underwear. It may have been a diaper but that still makes it her underwear. These TSA thugs claim that they are doing this terrorists have used children and old people as suicide bombers and such. Please tell me EXACTLY how many non-muslim children and non-muslim old people have actually been used in this way! They are protecting us my royal backside! They are profiling non-muslims to be abused in these lineups while protecting muslims from this harassment. I would love to know EXACTLY how many muslim 10 and under children and muslims 65 and older have beem molested in the manner that they are molestng non-muslims. I would be willing to bet that if it was checked out good enough, that the answer would be absolutely NO muslim children or old people have been molested like this!
V-MAN MACE
Posted on June 27, 2011 at 10:07amOh, it took you long enough. Alex Jones has been talking about this story for days already.
Catch up.
Report Post »V-MAN MACE
Posted on June 27, 2011 at 10:08amMaybe you were too busy trying to smear Emily Good for her filming of those Nazi Cops to worry about the TSA Nazis molesting elderly people at the airport?
Report Post »Nostraquedeo
Posted on June 27, 2011 at 10:16amPolice State at the Airport and no law on the borders. This does not compute.
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on June 27, 2011 at 10:59amLIBERALS GONE WILD!!!
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Get your’s today!
Watch for the follow up DVDs – “UNIONS GONE WILD” “TSA GONE WILD” ™
lol
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on June 27, 2011 at 11:02amIf THIS story doesn’t deserve the IRE and attention of our lawmakers, NOTHING will.
Report Post »JRook
Posted on June 27, 2011 at 3:02pmAnother great example of the monster Bush created. The Bush job creation plan.
Report Post »kennyg933
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 8:19amA little wine and some Dean Martin may have got that diaper off with less publicity. (I’m joking). I feel that this victimized, ill old woman should have defacated on the TSA Brownshirt. She should have just beared down with all her strength and said, “Is THAT what you are looking for?” WHEN will someone just absolutely kick the living sh*t out of one of these Nazis? I have not had the opportunity because I just pass right through the checkpoints without incident. But last time I flew I did say to another passenger how creepy the whole set-up felt and that this must be how the Nazi prisoners disembarking the trains must have felt as they were separated from their stuff and cataolged. To me, this is an ongoing training excecise: Desensitizing theTSA Nazis, while getting the sheep to quietly accept the assaults. If you are crotch grabbed by the brownshirt, immediately reach back and grab his/her crotch. If someone asks you to remove clothing other than shoes, knee them in the crotch and call for the police as this is attempted sexual assault. If you feel threatened, use whatever force you deem necessary to defend yourself and stop the assault. But we won’t. The beast has us by the diaper.
Report Post »Secret Squirrel
Posted on June 28, 2011 at 10:55am.
There’s been a rash of diaper bombing grannys.
Well, maybe diaper rash.
Keep up the good work, Janet!
The last time I was selected for “additional screening”, it was me, along with a blind guy, and an elderly woman in a wheel chair. Come to think of it, I’ve never seen someone in muslim garb being selected for additional screening.
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