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TSA Pat-Down Leaves Bladder Cancer Patient Humiliated, Crying & Soaked in Urine

When I went to the airport today, I was put in the uncomfortable position of a so-called “naked” full-body scan. Today’s experience was very different from the last flight I made, nearly two weeks ago; at that time I only had to go through a magnetometer. Today there was no option — it was either the full-body scan, a humiliating pat-down or no flight. All passengers flying out of Washington, DC were subjected to the new procedures. So, like confused cattle, our uneasy line of air travelers was herded through the machine.

But my experience today was nothing compared to that of Thomas D. “Tom” Sawyer, a 61-year-old retired special education teacher from Lansing, Michigan. Sawyer was reportedly on his way to a wedding in Orlando when his medical condition caught the special attention of security.

As a survivor of bladder cancer, Sawyer wears his pants two sizes to large to accommodate medical equipment he must now wear. “I have to wear special clothes and in order to mount the [urostomy] bag I have to seal a wafer to my stomach and then attach the bag.  If the seal is broken, urine can leak all over my body and clothes,” he recounted to MSNBC.

On Nov. 7, Sawyer said he went through the security checkpoint at Detroit Metropolitan Airport. “Evidently the scanner picked up on my urostomy bag, because I was chosen for a pat-down procedure,” he said.  Because of his medical condition, Sawyer says he asked to be screened in private.  “One officer looked at another, rolled his eyes and said that they really didn’t have any place to take me,” said Sawyer. “After I said again that I’d like privacy, they took me to an office.”

After he removed his belt for security, Sawyer’s over-sized pants fell down around his ankles.  “I had to ask twice if it was OK to pull up my shorts… And every time I tried to tell them about my medical condition, they said they didn’t need to know about that.”

But when one TSA agent used his hand to pat-down Sawyer, his urostomy bag became dislodged and the urine began to pour down the front of him.  “I tried to warn him that he would hit the bag and break the seal on my bag, but he ignored me. Sure enough, the seal was broken and urine started dribbling down my shirt and my leg and into my pants.”

What‘s more disturbing is the TSA agents’ response.  The pat-down continued and they dismissed him without a second thought.  “He told me I could go. They never apologized. They never offered to help. They acted like they hadn’t seen what happened,” he said.

Sawyer says he was humiliated and “couldn’t even speak.”  He had to walk through the airport in his urine-soaked clothes, unable to clean himself up until he was onboard his plane.  He plans to file a complaint with the TSA.

In response, one TSA spokesman said the agency encourages air travelers with medical conditions to consult the TSA website.  However, the website clearly states that security officers “will not ask nor require you to remove your prosthetic device, cast, or support brace.”

Sawyer is not the only air passenger whose delicate medical condition has recently caught TSA officials breaking with official protocol.  As we reported, one flight attendant — a breast cancer survivor — was forced to show security personnel a prosthetic breast.

“I am a good American and I want safety for all passengers as much as the next person,” Sawyer said. “But if this country is going to sacrifice treating people like human beings in the name of safety, then we have already lost the war.”

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  • jginmt
    Posted on November 21, 2010 at 2:33am

    TSA = Testicle Search Agency
    TSA= Titillating Squeeze Agency

    Thank you Muslims of the world to make us go through all this.

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 3:57am

      Muslims? WHAT MUSLIMS? This is about the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995. McVeigh, the perpetrator, was executed six years later. Case closed, or so we thought. Enter Muslim-born, commie Obama, and the case was immeeediately reopened. Obama may be an atheist, but his fine-tuned Amerophobic, Allahsensory crapception tells him that the ghost of Timothy McVeigh is haunting the airports of America.

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    • Huckabee Gingrich 12
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 4:02am

      I was thinking “Titillated Stimulus Agents”…

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 4:40am

      Huckabee? Ain’t he a little too kumbaya with libs?

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  • Codered
    Posted on November 21, 2010 at 2:30am

    How come we haven’t heard from Obama about this TSA security issues ??? Something has to be done and soon…..

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    • wash1776
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 6:14am

      What makes you think that Obumbler cares. When has he shown to care ANYTHING about the American people? He runs around the globe appologizing for this country and when he is here all he does is look for ways to destroy this country. He takes lavash vacations after vacations with no concern for the taxpayers and continually ignores the will of the people and you expect him to care about what is going on at the airports?. He is probably laughing right along with the terrorists.

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    • OneRepublic4us
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 9:41am

      I‘m pretty sure this problem will be resolved before he’s a private citizen and his daughters are old enough to fly alone. Can you imagine the YouTube video of his daughters molestation at the hands of TSA going viral?

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    • mrdbcooper
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 11:05am

      it’s too late we already have the Schutzstaffel (SS) i love W but he started something evil without realizing it.

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    • BurntHills
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 11:28am

      oh for God’s sake Codered, obama is the one who put this NATIONAL ATROCITY and old nazi tactic into play. he is doing everything possible to disgrace, demean, humiliate the American whites who can afford to fly.

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  • Texas Galt
    Posted on November 21, 2010 at 2:30am

    Thoughts:

    Humiliate & Control:

    1. Spoiled Toddler-In-Chief: Barky pouts, whines and stomps his effeminate tootsies, and is paying us back for the last election. (Think about it: the set-up underwear ‘bomber’ was almost a year ago, but exactly a week after the election, this crap was put into place.)

    2. Andy Stern (of SEIU fame) sits on the new financial committee — **Presto-Bingo**, they just “ORDERED” that the TSA will immediately be unionized. Wow. 67,000+ new card carrying, union-paying goon squad. (Adds to the D-voter roll, also.)

    3. Cass Sunstein & Eugenics: Johns Hopkins Radiological drs. had warned since last April, that the scanners could at worst cause skin and bone cancers; at least severely sterialize us, especially the males. (Hell, they want LESS of us, and they ain’t gonna pay for cancer treatments, anyway.)

    4. The Eco Freaks: Done. They have been screaming about the “carbon-spewing” airlines for years.

    5. The Obvious: Takeover of the airlines — continued industry control by the State. (Mussolini)

    6. Further Humbling: Take us all back to covered wagons days, etc. (but make it illegal for us to even own our own seeds, animals, etc.). How dare we live better than 3rd world country?

    7. Enure us to centralization & jackbooting: Keep us bunched in nice little clumps, as not to stray too far from control, while insinuating themselves into aspect of our moves.

    8. Royally p*ss us off: Hack us off to total revolt, to institute some sort of martial law — and negate the Jan.’s new Congress. (Could this fairly-literate new “Federal TSA agents” be the germination of a new ‘army’?)

    Add to the list. They don’t do ANYthing without some grave ulterior motive.

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    • HEARDENOUGHCRAP
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 5:49am

      Well said!! Very sucsinct, and on the mark!!

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    • Max jones
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 7:29am

      HEY TEX…#8 on your list is the winner!! That was my first thought. It looks like revolution is being forced on us. This is unacceptable on so many levels and for so many reasons. I hate to say this,
      but the loony left has become the EVIL left. I look for more of the same type of intrusion in more and more areas of our day to day lives, meant to anger us and force emotional reaction.
      This tactic is completely unexpected, but brilliant! What EVIL S.O.B. came up with this one? I weep for my nation and my people.
      I knew the results of the midterm elections were going to cause some sort of retaliation…That the Demons in the administration were going to spank! Can the sixth trump be far?
      Pray with me..’Dear Father in heaven, We come to you in Yeshua’s name, humbly, in our hour of great need. Stand by us and with us now and forever against the forces of evil that have risen in our government and the world. Evil men who have no respect or compassion for your children are threatening our very existence. Give us wisdom and stamina, Keep us and protect us. Touch us with your Grace and sanctify our efforts. Always, as You will, Father…Amen

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    • Paleo Archer
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 8:11am

      Regarding #8….I’m not scared of those “ Mall Cops”…bring ‘em on!…a country boy can survive.

      Paleo Archer  
  • Matt
    Posted on November 21, 2010 at 2:29am

    Not really an emotional type, but as I was reading this I was nearly brought to tears with embarrassment for this guy. This may be the ONLY time I consider giving money to the ACLU.

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    • ronmorgen
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 7:33am

      Do you think those commies are going to do anything for the cause of righteousness? Pray folks, even if you aren’t a believer. Only God can help us, leaving him is the root cause of our predicament, returning to him the solution.

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    • constitutionparty
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 8:32am

      Have you notice the ACLU being completely silent on this one? They only will care when it is Muslims being searched.

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  • kryptonite
    Posted on November 21, 2010 at 2:25am

    These TSA agents are govt. employees, and in a commie regime people who work for the govt. invariably lose their soul to the govt. Obama was humiliated at home on Nov. 2 and abroad in Asia, and the narcissist is in a foul, vindictive mood. Be prepared to be humiliated. Airports are just the beginning.

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    • HEARDENOUGHCRAP
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 4:54am

      I have to agree with you that the First Monkey is in a foul mood. He has harbored ill will toward whites for years, but until his coronation, I didn’t know it also included Jews. It’s past time to put the monkey back in his cage along with the counterpart he jumped over the broom with. Reid is another one with disdain for the American people in general, and there is a line from a famous children’s movie that fits Pelosi to a T……You have no power here. Be gone before someone drops a house on YOU!!

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    • neveragainadem
      Posted on November 22, 2010 at 7:27pm

      You got that right! In addition, it is also another way to prompt civil unrest by the American people as they now use union thug mentality to humiliate those fortunate enough to afford a plane ticket.

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  • slade37
    Posted on November 21, 2010 at 2:23am

    I agree with the idea that TSA gives a false sense of security. I felt better back around 2002 when I saw the military in some airports. I think it was in Austin, TX where I saw an Army officer with a rifle at the top of a stairway. He was in the general area where non-passengers could be. I’d prefer to see that again.

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  • Dyscyple65
    Posted on November 21, 2010 at 2:22am

    All of this can be easily prevented by simply performing criminal profiling. Notice I said criminal and not racial. Criminal profiling occurs every single day in America by practically every law enforcment agency in the country. TSA should do the same.

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  • free2bme1961
    Posted on November 21, 2010 at 2:18am

    I can’t think of any words that describe how I feel right now…I’ll get back to ya!!

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    • RepubliCorp
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 4:23am

      I feel the same.

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    • TrueGrit
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 6:55am

      What bothers me the most… is that the damn Muslim (radicals) are laughing at all this.

      We are indeed the laughing stock.

      Wolverine

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  • teahugger
    Posted on November 21, 2010 at 2:17am

    My heart goes out to this poor fellow. This kind of treatment makes my blood boil! Just wait ’til someone’s colostomy bursts because of this foolishness, or they dislodge a dialysis catheter…its only a matter of time.

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    • Waggedy Wabbit
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 11:46am

      Did any fellow passengers offer any help to this guy or maybe a kind word or two? Doubt it!!! typical sheep move -do not get involved they might come for me next just comply WARSAW GETTO ring a bell or maybe we are NOT there yet??????

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    • mrclean
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 9:04pm

      WAGGEDY WABBIT

      Make no mistake, we indeed ARE knocking HARD on that Warsaw Ghetto door. Sheep mentality is a very dangerous and contageous disease…. and quite deadly

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  • pc_mechanic
    Posted on November 21, 2010 at 2:16am

    Now I know what to do with that old bottle of ipecac I have laying around. Think of all the fun you can have with the TSA if you can vomit at will!

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    • snowleopard3200 {mix art}
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 5:06am

      Be sure to have eaten fish tacos heavily dosed with beans and bacon. Eat the rawest of onions and of garlic you can stand; and have the strongest, foulest smelling of deoderant and such worn just before going to the airport terminal. If they are going to grope and assault you, make it payable in kind to them.

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  • CYCLONE
    Posted on November 21, 2010 at 2:14am

    shoot em in the f*ing face…

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  • davidwjohnson
    Posted on November 21, 2010 at 2:12am

    I read that only 7% of Americans fly on a regular basis. So they are the only ones complaining right now.

    Just wait for the Thanksgiving holiday schedule when that number jumps to 42 million people.

    We haven’t seen anything yet!!!

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    • Reavist
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 10:29am

      Only 7% complaining is a lie. I fly maybe once a year if that. I went through the scanner and then the pat down. It’s happening to everybody. After my experience, I am PRO profiling. Our government needs to stop their arrogance and enlist the help of Israel – they know what they are doing.
      I see a waste of resources on people who are normal Americans who do not fit a terrorist profile. The scanner and pat downs (feel ups) should be used only on those they TRULY suspect might be a problem. This takes serious training in behavioral profiling. What’s going on is disgusting and does not solve the problem, it creates a new ones.

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    • gracew
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 2:16pm

      You’re wrong, David. Many of us who will never fly again are protesting this humiliation and sexual assault (even on children). It is unconstitutional and unforgivable. Join the Tea Party and help us try to stop all forms of government abuse of the people.

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  • Minority Retort
    Posted on November 21, 2010 at 2:04am

    I’m so very sorry for this mans experience. My son was born with a mid-line defect and may one day have a similar requirement. “Insensitivity” is defined these days with regards to peoples life choices. How about defining it with regard toward decent human respect and dignity.

    Every time, I get “selected” for the scanner, I opt for the pat down. Because they should endure the inconvenience just as much as I will. Further, the pat-down lasts for a moment, the scanner image lasts indefinitely.

    Then I ask the TSA employee, “How was I selected for further scrutiny?” and they will [quite often] say, “We select people at random in order to keep it fair and sample the population.” Or do we really believe children fit a threat profile?

    Folks, random sampling is not “reasonable search and seizure.” Keep a record and file a complaint anywhere and everywhere. Begin with TSA, the airlines and your congressman’s office(s).

    Defend the constitution, or be prepared to live without it. Know the 4th amendment. Know when it’s been violated too.

    There’s something very wrong with this arrangement. Remember, if seems excessive, it probably is.

    THERE ARE other technological and manual methods which will work without invading your privacy or assaulting your dignity and your rights (scanner image clarity OR the frisking)!

    Otherwise, some suggest “crop-dusting.” ;^) You pick…lose your rights, or lose your couth. That’s gonna be a curious trend to report in the news!!

    In other related news, the terrorist Ghailani got a slap on the wrist with 1 conviction out of 285 charges…and the one conviction was not even a “terrorist” charge…you think it’s going to get easier on the American public as we have to make up for the lack of deterrence…

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  • BrownTrout
    Posted on November 21, 2010 at 2:02am

    That’s right, sheep. Just keep baaaing and clucking your tongues, saying how horrible it is to be treated like inmates in your own country. Baaaaa! Baaaa! Baaaa!

    Remember that little nursery rhyme Baa Baa Black Sheep?

    Baa baa black sheep, have you any wool?
    Yes sir, yes sir, three bags full!
    One for the master, one for the dame,
    And one for the little boy who lives down the lane.

    Well, Obama and his socialist friends around the world is your master now. Deal with it. Most people who call themselves Americans don’t even trouble themselves enough to vote, so what right do they have to bitch? Those who do vote, all they know how to do is bitch – or so it seems! Franklin, Jefferson, Paine and Washington were made of stiffer material than this – perhaps this is why American freedoms are being taken away so easily.

    What a sad mess sheep, what a sad sad mess you’ve gotten yourselves into. Baaa. Baaa. Baaa. Sounds like the inmates in the USSR or East Germany. Here’s an idea, go complain to the UN! ROFL

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  • Vie_En_Ras
    Posted on November 21, 2010 at 2:00am

    Hate pointing out errors but:

    “… Sawyer wears his pants two sizes to large to accommodate…”

    should be: … two sizes *TOO* large to accommodate…

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    • wash1776
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 6:00am

      This is all you can come up with after what that man went through? A spellling error. PITIFUL!

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    • Minority Retort
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 2:20pm

      @Krptonite (pg. 1)

      Wow! What a wake up call. McVeigh executed within 6 yrs. for the bombing in OKC.

      We sure know how to bring an American baddie to justice…but how long will it take us to turn foreign terrorists loose? Ghailani was charged with [basically] vandalizing (destroying) government property.

      Execution? Nah. Don’t count on it. Not even for KSM!

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  • SaintMichael
    Posted on November 21, 2010 at 2:00am

    WHAT? WHAT threat is this supposed to stop? Seriously?

    This would not have stopped the shoe bomber (thank you xraying our shoes)…

    This would not have stopped the underwear bomber…

    This doesn’t stop guns or knives any better than a less intrusive metal detector.

    The puffer chemical sniffers, which we already paid for, did adequately detect explosive oders.

    So what the heck is this supposed to catch that a chemical sniifer machien (or dog) plus a metal detector can’t do?

    Oh yea line lobbiest pockets who pushed the fed to buy these pornographic machines in the first place.

    The last several terror plots have been on CARGO, and ALL of the incidents with persons in the cabins have been on FOREIGN flights coming INTO the us.

    These scans and pat downs detect NOTHING that a metal detector, chemical sniffing and profiling couldn’t detect for cheaper.

    Udderly rediculous. TSA has got to be the scum of the federal employees, although IRS investigators give them some compeitition.

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    • APPLESOFGOLD
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 10:22am

      I can’t wait to see the next machine and method the TSA comes up with after a terrorist tries to blow us up with explosives packed in his anal cavity. And I wonder who is going to line up for employment with the TSA once they learn that they get to perform procto exams!

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  • RestoreCapitalism
    Posted on November 21, 2010 at 1:58am

    Those bastards should be fired immediately.

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    • BurntHills
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 11:26am

      more like it, since we are back in 1930s Germany, where is the nearest BRICK WALL.

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  • SHASTADIANE1
    Posted on November 21, 2010 at 1:57am

    You know, I have seen them rubbing their hands all over woment with tight fitting shirts that you couldn’t fit anything under without it showing and I see no point to this to safety. I’m not flying anywhere, till they get this mess fixed and cleared up. There are very few terrorists out there. Most of the folks who are flying are within the US. I’d be asking ???’s like “check ID” where they live, where they are going, why are they going, when are they returning? If it is a one way ticket, WHY is it a one way ticket. Not racial profiling, but maybe that would be best also. A 30 year employee of the airlines, and a 60 Plus man with a urine bag is NOT a terror risk. Common sense makes a lot more sense here. What happened to that stuff? Common sense I mean.

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    • Beachcomber556
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 3:18am

      The problem with common sense is that it is not very common, especially when dealing with the Federal government.

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    • Ron C. de Weijze
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 4:50am

      In Israel they put those suspected, everybody if necessary, into a box that would detonate anything if they hadn’t removed it themselves. That is very small government and perfectly sufficient.

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    • mrclean
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 8:54pm

      No offence, but we’re WAAAAYY past common sense here folks.

      I picture in my mind the lines at the airports, parents holding children, tempers growing short, etc etc, while they wait like obediant citizens for the government’s approval to fly…..

      The Jews in line for check-in at Auschwitz after their 5-day cattle car ride held their squirming children in their arms, still unaware of what awaited them, that is until they got to the head of the line where the children were ripped from their arms and taken away.

      If we don’t put a stop to this nazi-type behavior of the government, we will be waltzed into a place we never in our wildest dreams thought we would ever be in…..

      And it’s not just the TSA.

      Be as wise as a serpent and as harmless as a dove.

      The mind set of flying Americans is numb, much like the Jews, who hoped for the best right up to the end.

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  • CYCLONE
    Posted on November 21, 2010 at 1:56am

    bacon rules…. lol

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  • traderdan
    Posted on November 21, 2010 at 1:51am

    Watch the other hand folks

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    • msguidedchld
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 4:11am

      Slight of hand is happening. I’m with TRADERDAN on this one.

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    • whitaker
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 4:31am

      Is this the other hand: Obama is allowing 80,000 Muslims to immigrate next year. He is doing it with an executive order or is it the lame duck session.

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    • El Braapo
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 7:15am

      Well said. Seems like classic misdirecting.

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  • flevan
    Posted on November 21, 2010 at 1:40am

    I hope this rediculousness gets squared away, but in the meantime I propose the following;

    If you refuse the Backscatter radiation machine,
    If you refuse the full body pat down,

    Plate of bacon.

    Plate of bacon is a powerful screening tool, and hey, free bacon.

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    • mrdbcooper
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 10:58am

      learn this word: Schutzstaffel (SS), need I say more?

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  • Opinionmonger
    Posted on November 21, 2010 at 1:39am

    The stupids at the gate should be schooled in what normal people have and act accordingly.
    But then again , how can one assume that a a goon who failed as a burgerflipper could understand anything about hyuman rights , The Constitution or eben mere civil dignity.

    S

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    • treshall
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 9:07am

      I’m with DSTARR55- I too love to travel by train- but I must ask, does anyone else wonder if this is going to put the airline industry in the red? If more Americans grow disgusted by the TSA, and who could blame us if we did, will the air carriers bear the brunt of it and see their revenues shrink? Who but the business commuter will submit to this crap on a regular basis? Not only do I believe that we’re well within our rights to complain, I feel that we’re morally bound to complain, as this s*it violates every human being’s right to privacy and DOES, in my opinion, constitute “unreasonable search”; these TSA agents have no reason to suspect John Q. Public is a terrorist. This nation has been totally f*#%ed by “political correctness”- so very, very sad. Who was that just made the point that we’ve been “conquered from within”? So it would seem, my friend.

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  • CYCLONE
    Posted on November 21, 2010 at 1:37am

    … well… is’nt this lovely… I would imagine that all of the airports don’t want to do business with TSA anymore… and or I will not be doing business with the airports anymore… I guess that Amtrack won’t be losing 2 billion dollars a year anymore…

    2 cents worth

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    • wyldibrouse
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 6:40am

      As long as they persist in this barbaric practice, I’ll use any other method of transport even my own two little legs. Just watch, trains and buses will be next.

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    • Dstarr55
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 8:12am

      I always loved the trains more anyway – you are very relaxed and ready to go when you get to your destination and it relaxes you from all the fun you had on vacation or all the work you did on your business trip. The last few times I rode the train in the station was several officers walking around with dogs (either drug or bomb sniffing). I find that far more pleasant than the humiliating, invasive procedures at the airports. The last time I flew a women in front of me was near tears as they pulled her aside for extra screening. She was in her upper 50’s and was shaking as she was taken away. Her crime – they told her she changed her flight at the last minute.

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    • neveragainadem
      Posted on November 22, 2010 at 7:11pm

      What happened here is clearly a case of raw egotistical power gone wild. One can’t help but wonder what person in their right mind would want to take on such a job. Thug mentality comes to mind and plays right into the hands of the union mentality wanting to control peoples’ freedom of movement. This new procedure is just another way of trying to prompt civil unrest among American citizens. Better to boycott the airlines than to resort to unrest.

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  • snowleopard3200 {mix art}
    Posted on November 21, 2010 at 1:31am

    My God, this is above any humanity to subject him to what they did. I hope to heavens he can win a case for emotional damages and anything else as well. The TSA is become as bad as the KGB in its own manners. Fire the whole lot of them, and try Napoletano for treason.

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    • teahugger
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 2:41am

      I agree, Snow! Glenn said to respect the TSA agents, they are just doing their job, but I have to disagree (which is rare for me…I love Glenn!). The prison guards at the concentration camps were also lowly government workers just doing their jobs. The tank operator who mowed down a civilian in Tienamen Square (pardon the spelling) was also just doing his job!

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    • HEARDENOUGHCRAP
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 4:38am

      I’m reminded of those who were transported to the concentration camps. They were herded like cattle, treated like they were worthy only of contempt, and forced to strip naked. Is this scenario sounding familier to anyone?

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    • wyldibrouse
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 6:42am

      Oh, I dunno, maybe if the President, his family, and all the big mucky mucks would lead by example and show us how it’s done to go through this procedure in public on national television, I might submit. NOT!

      BTW, how about “Titillated Stimulated Agents”?

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    • Zoe
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 7:35am

      Spot on! I have resigned from several cash cow corporate jobs in my life. (My wife always asked why before Christmas?)

      Core values are not determined by the season.

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    • PatriotGirlUSA
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 7:38am

      I am in utter disbelief that this is America and as a citizen, when I fly to DC next week, I will lose all of my rights because I purchased an airline ticket. I’m a wreck over the thought of traveling through the airports. I have one other trip already booked for February. After that, I‘m not sure I’m up for flying any more. There must be something that can be done to stop these degrading invasions of our personal privacy and liberties. Are there no TSA agents that are even human? Do they not have any respect for other human beings? Of course, I keep asking why we cannot impeach Obama and force him out of office. Our world has gone mad.

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    • mrdbcooper
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 10:59am

      Schutzstaffel (SS)

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    • Brad
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 11:04am

      I have to agree with TeaHugger. Though I understand Glenn’s stance that the agents are just doing their jobs there has to come a point when the stance is no longer valid. Wrong is wrong and no one should be allowed to use “I was just doing my job” as a shield to hide behind.

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    • CatB
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 6:07pm

      I wonder if they didn’t put this poor man in danger of getting an infection. I would think that a breach of the medical device in an unsterile way could put the man in harms way. I hope he doesn’t get an infection but if he does I hope that he or his heirs sue the HE LL out of them!

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    • wvgirl
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 10:53pm

      I agree with Teahugger below. There is no way I would take a job that would debase and humiliate my fellow human beings, that goes against the very core of our American constitutional protections, that is the same as what was done to human beings in the concentration camps. There is no amount of money that could make me perform these sick, dehumanizing acts.

      Until we stop the PC crap, this will continue on into other realms of our lives, as well. There needs to be massive protests at several major airports in unison. Shut them down. Until Americans are willing to stand up, fight back, and rid our government of these progressive cult leaders, we are going to be subjected to this and much more. They will continue as long as we allow it.

      When will we stand up, good men of America? Where are you?

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    • democratgirl
      Posted on November 22, 2010 at 10:33am

      The problem with all of this is ALL THE POLITICIANS HAVE THEIR OWN AIRPLANES OR KNOW SOMEONE WHO DOES, so none of them are subjected to this. I love Glenn Beck and pray for him daily, BUT THIS TIME HE IS JUST PLAIN WRONG. A lot of these workers are CONTRACT WORKERS and are not actually subject to the laws of our government, even though in the job capacity, they are told they must comply. So, what happens if someone sues? Who will you sue? I see some nasty stuff coming and it won’t be from the left.

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  • Allie
    Posted on November 21, 2010 at 1:27am

    I just wish the urine had gotten on the TSA agent.

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    • Dustyluv
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 2:25am

      Give up your Constitutional rights to fly. Yep we are gonna fall in line when the cavity searches begin I suppose. Those TSA agebts will need more than rubber gloves then. Urine wil be the least of their problems.

      Restore sanity. Profile for TERRORISTS!!!

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    • IVillageIdiot
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 2:50am

      We need to use the El Al method and drop this PC non-sense…..

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    • Jimbo143
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 3:08am

      im not a conspiracy guy but does the govt not want us to fly?i meanalot of people wont fly because of this and then the airlines will lose money.and maybe the govt will bail them out like the auto companies.banks,auto companies now airlines?just a random thought.

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    • SHTFMilitia.com
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 4:35am

      Thats so sad .

      Are the TSA agents not american ? How can you do this to someone and not feel bad or ask to help them, These people are like ROBOTS.

      It just disgusts me.

      If you are prepared you may survive,
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    • Polwatcher
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 5:31am

      If El Al airlines were allowed to fly in America with their security, they would get all the business.

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    • geminisailor
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 5:49am

      It seems like this ought to be the final straw. WHY ISN’T BIG SIS STOPPING THIS??? Did humiliating that law abiding Senior make the flight safer?

      Folks, how much longer can we stand for this? It needs to stop NOW.

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    • HKS
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 6:49am

      I’m guessing this is only the start, next you will be stopped wherever and whenever and get the same thing. It’s for the greater good ya know, to keep you safe, and the kids, what about the little kids. We need a video feed in your house to protect them. Yes, this is only the beginning.

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    • Conservative Grinch
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 7:11am

      Revolt – Do not comply with the TSA’s unconstitutional dictates over the Holidays.

      We hold these truths to be self-evident, that ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL, that they are ENDOWED BY THEIR CREATOR with certain UNALIENABLE RIGHTS, that among these are LIFE, LIBERTY and the PURSUIT of HAPPINESS.–That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among Men, deriving their JUST POWERS from the CONSENT of the GOVERENED, –That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the RIGHT of the PEOPLE to ALTER or to ABOLISH it, and to INSTITUTE NEW GOVERNMENT, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their SAFETY and HAPPINESS. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while EVILS are sufferable, than to RIGHT THEMSELVES by ABOLISHING the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of ABUSES and USURPATIONS, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under ABSOLUTE DESPOTISM, it is their RIGHT, it is their DUTY, to THROW OFF such government, and to provide NEW GUARDS for their FUTURE SECURITY.

       
    • PaPosse
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 8:21am

      Obama told us he would do all this and yet America voted for him. Shame that the greatest nation is conquered from within.

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    • Colonial Revolutionary
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 8:35am

      This is outrageous. So many stories like this popping up recently and still nothing is being done to stop these unconstitutional searches. I am a frequent flyer and fly just about every week. I have no choice but to submit to these screening processes other than quit my job. I feel so violated and helpless. I guess this is what it feels like when your liberties are taken away from you. land of the free my a s s . Not anymore.

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    • tower7femacamp
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 8:36am

      If we don’t stand up now we NEVER will !!!!

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    • aquariaqueen
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 8:41am

      Me too…..

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    • RJGUSA
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 8:46am

      Gotta love ABC News subliminal messages in their report: ‘Stiffer Measures’ & ‘Stiff measures’.

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    • Freedomisslavery
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 9:23am

      It is terrible that people like this man are and will continue to be humiliated for “our safety”. My advice is that if you don’t want to go through all of the intrusive pat-downs DON’T FLY!!! They will get the message. If people keep taking it, they will keep doing it. Next they will say “spread ‘em”, and I don’t mean your legs.

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    • poverty.sucks
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 9:27am

      She’ll be fine, the Obamanation and their death panel will take good care of him.

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    • metalurgy
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 9:36am

      Just another reason for this conservative to dispise George Bush. He gave us this gift of Dept of Homeland Security, the TSA, two more bloated government agency’s full of democrats voting for their paychecks and signed off on the first Stimulus that gave Timmy Geitner powers to endrun the constitution.

      GOP = Enslavement on the 50 year plan.
      DFL = Enslavement right here, right now.

      In my mind there is no differnce until the RINO’s are rooted out in total and the party name is changed to something befitting of the anti-gov movement. TeaParty works for me, Constitution party works for me, what ever, but GOP leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Thanks George Bush for your service and you are far better then Obama, but you were wrong and every time the GOP creates a government office, it doesn’t take long for it to matastisize into a malignant DFL cancer.

      I give you the TSA, the DFL‘s new government union voting block who’s salaries, pensions and healthcare will be paid by us for ever more while they stick their hands down your pants, strip search and humiliate you.

      Thanks for that gift George Bush.

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    • oldoldtimer
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 9:54am

      What Obama supporter is getting rich from these machines? $11,000 fine if you refuse the scan, body search and to not fly? What happened to freedom. How long before they expand it to entrance to WalMart or the mall or the football game? This is only the start. The test to see if the American people can be brainwashed into doing it. Believe me the RIF chips are coming next. “But we need to for your safety”. He who gives up freedom for safety shall have neither.

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    • oldoldtimer
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 9:57am

      Which is to be feared most? A terrorist attack or the TSA brown shirts? Coming to a bus depot and train station near you.

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    • Annette
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 10:44am

      let’s be honest here..this is one more industry our beleoved obama and minions is trying to destroy….it’s that simple. when we can’t move around freely this is exactly what he wants.

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    • mrdbcooper
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 10:54am

      Schutzstaffel…look it up!!!

      Does the acronymn SS mean anything to you people????????

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    • Rogue
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 10:56am

      @ oldtimer – one of the people making money from the scanners (among many I’m sure) is the former Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff. He recommended these machines through his consulting firm, and cashed in big when the TSA bought them.

      I agree with what Glenn alluded to a while back on his program. Implement dogs instead of these scanners. However, that will never ever happen…. no one makes money on dogs.

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    • BurntHills
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 11:24am

      apparently these TSA goons are the absolute dregs of our society, there is no excuse for ANY of this behavior against us from them; for they are totally power-mad over us plain decent white Americans and our innocent little children and our cancer patients and our nuns. we have been singled out as the new WWII Jews, folks. obama is salivating like the rabid animal he is, just waiting for us to rebel so he can kill us and declare martial law.

      this is WWII 1930s Germany, welcome to it. this is how much obama HATES America. this is his agenda, this is his whole play. and the democrats rejoice.

      America falls unless we figure out a way to STOP THIS.

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    • smokie
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 12:04pm

      I‘m of the theory that it’s their purpose to demoralize and humiliate the American people. A vanquished citizenry doesn’t fight back. They didn’t take people to Auschwitz in passenger trains, they used cattle cars. I think this has nothing to do with security.
      It seems the more reports that come in, the more that Big Woman(?) ups the ante.
      Many of the searches and humiliations are of a sexual and/or humiliating nature. It’s time to think like my Uncle Rex- don’t think about your next chess move, get inside their heads and try to figure THEIR next move. The directives to be more sexually assaulting are coming from somewhere.

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    • zanutsa
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 1:46pm

      Does anyone else but me think “Auschwitz mentality?” I often wondered why the Jews, Gypsies and others being rounded up and sent to the death camps weren’t able to rise up and rebel. It’s because it all started with very, very, very slow conditioning. I think we’re getting there very quickly. Frightening!! I say let’s adopt the Israeli mode of security in their airports. Even detection dogs can smell and detect secreted items that these machines and pat downs cannot.

      I just came back from Romania. In London, even though I had gone through security in Budapest, I still had to go through another security check at Heathrow. I realized that some of the passengers on my same flight, were being sent through two different lines. The people in the line I happened to be directed to were being sent through the simple metal detector. The others were going through a physical pat down and “wanding.” I remember thinking to myself, “Wow! I‘m glad I’m not in THAT line.” It was right then that I realized, Omigosh! I have the “Auschwitz mentality.” I watched several mothers with their toddlers wiggling in their arms, businessmen and others in THAT line, while I was really pleased I wasn’t having to go through the pat down and scanning with the electronic wand. Since then, I’ve been replaying that scene in my mind, over and over again. There was not one thing I could have done to intervene and halt that process, one way or another.

      Again I ask, is it just me that thinks “Auschwitz mentality?“ I was in the ”right” line. Sadly, other passengers were in the “wrong” line. In Auschwitz the “right” line led to showers; the “wrong” line led to the gas chamber. Now I ask, what can we do? I don’t know, perhaps I’m thinking too much.

      Oh, by the way, in Europe, you don’t have to take off your shoes to go through security in airports. Small comfort, huh?

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    • aafriend
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 1:49pm

      Watch the other hand ! Look at the headlines ! everything TSA ! What’s really going on !
      Tweet from AF1
      Probe on wall street
      Korean nuke threat
      Soros

      Tsa is to get our attention of the the real stories. Wall street probe is next.

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    • CatB
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 5:46pm

      Where are they hiring these TSA workers from? … they don’t seem to have a brain or compassion … Where do they get these people?

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    • CultureWarriors
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 6:56pm

      Enough, someone needs to answer for this. Republicans are you listening? The first order of business this January needs to be haul that idiot Napolitano up to Capitol Hill, grill her, and make a spectacle of her. She is utterly incompetent. What kind of idiot has us searching people like this. It’s a complete waste of time and a violation of our civil rights. She’s absolutely derelict in her duties. Any rational person with an IQ about 80 would be targeting the terrorists instead of everyday Americans. If there is an incident, it will be the Administrations fault for wasting valuable resources strip searching kids and patting down nuns. We need a grown up administration.

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAN9f9clmig

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    • mrclean
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 8:32pm

      The last sentence of the Preamble to the Constitution sums up the intent of the government–

      “But when a long train of ABUSES and USURPATIONS, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under ABSOLUTE DESPOTISM, it is their RIGHT, it is their DUTY, to THROW OFF such government, and to provide NEW GUARDS for their FUTURE SECURITY.”

      My heart rate nearly doubled as I read the story about the TSA’s despicable treatment of this man.

      It can’t be much plainer what road the government is waltzing us down…..

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    • Poor Richard
      Posted on November 21, 2010 at 9:39pm

      Does anyone find it curious that our US airport security workers, almost exlusively answered help wanted ads to become TSA agents? This gives me little confidence in these employees and their employer.

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    • OperationNorthwoods
      Posted on November 22, 2010 at 1:23am

      The war on terror was always a war on you. You bought into it, now please enjoy the destruction of our republic. More CIA terrorists like Bin Laden are on their way.

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    • UPSETVET
      Posted on November 22, 2010 at 7:01am

      America should be outraged because of the inhumane treatment Mr. Sawyer received at the hands of TSA agents. Mr. Sawyer has a medical condition that requires him to wear a urine bag. The TSA agents were told this but they patted him down anyway and in doing so they dislodgdd the urine bag and caused Mr. Sawyer to be soaked in his own urine. After the humiliating “patdown” the TSA agents released Mr. Sawyer to fly but offered no apologies for the Gestapo like security procedures they put him through. I wish that Mr. Sawyer could have emptied the urine bag over the heads of the TSA agents. All Americns should write their Congressional representatives and file a complaint against the NTB and the TSA. The new security measures recently adopted by the TSA shouldn’t rob citizens or anyone else of their dignity

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    • G.W. Dobbs
      Posted on November 22, 2010 at 8:00am

      Government ********! Typical. Give a Little Man “power” and he will assert himself; much like IRS agents.

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    • 13thgenerati0namerican
      Posted on November 22, 2010 at 8:02am

      I have soaked myself a few times in my life and it‘s really not as bad as you’d think. You can get used to it if you are forced to sit in it for periods of time. I can’t get out of my bed so for periods of time I am forced to lay in my messes. I am used to it, infact not even really bothered by it any more. I do ask for clean linens though when they get a chance.

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    • ANGELSHTFMILITIA
      Posted on November 22, 2010 at 8:48am

      Totally uncalled for

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    • democratgirl
      Posted on November 22, 2010 at 10:20am

      Class action lawsuit

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    • democratgirl
      Posted on November 22, 2010 at 10:22am

      Class action lawsuit is the ONLY way to go. How about it lawyers? Are there any HONEST attorneys out there that actually know and understand our CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS?????

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    • pattyto
      Posted on November 22, 2010 at 10:25am

      there is no call for the attitude of the TSA agent. This is why that department needs to go private with out a union. That way someone like that can be dismissed then and there. We are playing right into the hands of the terrists. get us in our pocketbooks and make Americans uneasy.

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    • democratgirl
      Posted on November 22, 2010 at 10:30am

      Freedomisslavery:
      I must disagree with you. REVOLT is better. A class action lawsuit is better. Unless you ORGANIZE like the liberals do, what good will it be for 1, 2, or 3 , or even 20 people to NOT FLY? ORGANIZE, ORGANIZE, ORGANIZE. They do it, so let’s use their own tactics against THEM. That makes much better sense. Actually, the lawsuit sounds much better. Get a website that will accomodate this. Get all American citizens who want a class action lawsuit and who flies frequently and have them contribute $5 towards the attorney fees and get it all the way to the supreme court. THIS CAN BE DONE, if you are angry enough. None of this has anything to do with security. It has everything to do with CONTROL OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE and WHAT IS COMING NEXT. I do not fly and will probably never fly, but just reading this stories makes me very, very angry. Handle it LEGALLY. Use their own tactics against them.

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    • Ken
      Posted on November 22, 2010 at 2:29pm

      Agree with ALLIE!!! Also, Obama needs to get a pat down and a cavity search so he can see just how humiliating these BS rules are that he’s imposing on all of us, while the policy apparently doesn’t apply to him!!!

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    • George Washington
      Posted on November 22, 2010 at 4:39pm

      Had any urine gotten on the TSA agents, they would have arrested him and charged him with assault and obstructing justice ,plus GOD knows what else. But do not worry. What goes around, comes around. They will one day get their comeupance.

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    • roseofsharon
      Posted on November 22, 2010 at 5:54pm

      13th Gen, I get the feeling you rather enjoy sitting in your own piss and s@#t, I hear most of the feeble-minded do. As for the rest of us, this is unacceptable.

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