‘Horrible’: Video Captures Woman Sobbing During TSA Patdown
- Posted on April 15, 2012 at 7:41pm by
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Gateway Pundit captured heart-wrenching video of a woman seemingly sobbing because of a TSA “patdown” at an airport in the Midwest this morning.
In an article beginning with the phrase, “War on Women,” the author continues:
Have any of you had this horrible experience yet?
You’re going through security, just passed through the naked scanner, you’re getting your bags and you witness a woman crying hysterically as she is getting her Obama TSA patdown?
It’s something you won’t forget.
Critics of the TSA note that there are ways to keep airline passengers safe without resorting to such invasive techniques. The most popular model is that of Israel, which has a 100% success rate due largely to various methods of profiling.
The article further notes that one in six women have been sexually assaulted, and mandating that they be groped by TSA is likely more of a “war” on their rights than asking them to pay for their own birth control.



















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dissentnow
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 8:32pmThis what happens when you willingly hand over your freedoms to the government because you are a coward. I would rather live with the threat of terrorism abroad than live with tyranny at home
Report Post »Al J Zira
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 8:37pmI can‘t tell what’s going on in the video but your statement is absolutely true.
Report Post »jhaydeng
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 8:42pmGod help them if something gets by these idiots for their crappy selection process!I can’t even begin to think how angry people would become! I still can’t believe we have come to this type of screening!
Report Post »dissentnow
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 8:49pmIts time to fire the TSA thugs and privatize airport security.
Report Post »anOpinion
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 9:02pmTell John Pistole how you feel … http://www.tsa.gov/who_we_are/people/bios/john_s_pistole_bio.shtm
quoted from his page
“Under his leadership, TSA will continue to grow as a risk-based, intelligence-driven counterterrorism agency dedicated to protecting our transportation systems.”
or in other words
“Under his leadership, TSA will continue to grow as a criminally invasive agency dedicated to both treating citizens as criminals, and abolishing your constitutional rights”
Report Post »daves
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 9:08pmwell put!! another gem comes to mind (concerning my 2nd amendment right) I rather die on my feet than live on my knees .I hope oathkeepers know this also..
Report Post »dissentnow
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 9:29pm@Daves
Report Post »All gun owners ( myself included ) need to take a stand with the libertarians. If the federal government can get away with gropping the elderly, infants, and the mentally retarded in the name of “security” and no one says a word, how much longer will it be before they come after our guns in the name of “security”?
jlwb
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 9:41pmYou don’t have to give up anything. Just stand back for 30 seconds and study the lines. You will see which ones will scan and/or do pat downs. Then pick the other line. This worked like a charm when I flew last month.
Report Post »If it works for a grandmom……hmmmm. I did, however feel safe. I chatted with others waiting for the plane. Lots of private citizens who would jump a bad guy who “picked the other line”.
MadinIllinois
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 10:04pmI have come to hate flying – It’s gotten to the point that I will drive anywhere I need to go, even 15 hours +, just so that I don’t have to deal with rude, narcissistic, sexual deveants with a badge from the government.
Report Post »cessna152
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 10:05pm@jlwb
Report Post »It used to work like that but not longer. The last few times I flew I watched the lines as I always do then I proceeded to the line f my choice…. the tsa dope asked me to get in another line. I am sure there are any some good agents but flying in and out of Philadelphia is by far the worst.
Macman1138
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 10:09pmAmen.
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 10:18pmThey who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. ~Benjamin Franklin
I refuse to fly. I will never submit myself to this humiliation and confiscation of my 4th Ammendment rights…They can F themselves.
Report Post »republitarian
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 10:27pm“All gun owners ( myself included ) need to take a stand with the libertarians.” You got it.
“We must hang together, gentlemen…else, we shall most assuredly hang separately.”
— Benjamin Franklin
Report Post »Jaycen
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 11:07pmDid you know that the TSA screenings were optional? Each city could opt out, and get private security.
This looks like St. Louis International to me. Not surprised. I’ve been patted down twice at St. Louis for refusing to go through the naked scanner.
Report Post »Jaycen
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 11:09pm@jhaydeng
What would get by them? Tell me.
What plots have the TSA stopped? Zero.
How many terrorists have the TSA caught? Zero.
Report Post »Glock31
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 11:09pmi agree
Report Post »ICRedifURBlue
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 11:13pm@Dissent….if they come for my guns the only thing I will give freely is USED bullets….they can catch them until I run out…….
Report Post »colt1860
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 11:28pm“Former TSA head Kip Hawley talks about how the agency is broken and how it can be fixed: ‘The crux of the problem, as I learned in my years at the helm, is our wrongheaded approach to risk. In attempting to eliminate all risk from flying, we have made air travel an unending nightmare for U.S. passengers and visitors from overseas, while at the same time creating a security system that is brittle where it needs to be supple. … the TSA’s mission is to prevent a catastrophic attack on the transportation system, not to ensure that every single passenger can avoid harm while traveling. Much of the friction in the system today results from rules that are direct responses to how we were attacked on 9/11. But it’s simply no longer the case that killing a few people on board a plane could lead to a hijacking. …The public wants the airport experience to be predictable, hassle-free and airtight and for it to keep us 100% safe. But 100% safety is unattainable. Embracing a bit of risk could reduce the hassle of today’s airport experience while making us safer at the same time.”
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/04/14/1244209/former-tsa-administrator-speaks
Report Post »colt1860
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 11:30pm*correct link to article:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303815404577335783535660546.html
Report Post »colt1860
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 11:42pm“One of the most traumatic events in German history occurred soon after Hitler took office. On February 27, 1933, in what easily could be termed the 9/11 terrorist attack of that time, German terrorists fire-bombed the German parliament building. It shouldn’t surprise anyone that Adolf Hitler, one of the strongest political leaders in history, would declare war on terrorism and ask the German parliament (the Reichstag) to give him temporary emergency powers to fight the terrorists. Passionately claiming that such powers were necessary to protect the freedom and well-being of the German people, Hitler persuaded the German legislators to give him the emergency powers he needed to confront the terrorist crisis. What became known as the Enabling Act allowed Hitler to suspend civil liberties “temporarily,” that is, until the crisis had passed. Not surprisingly, however, the threat of terrorism never subsided and Hitler’s “temporary” emergency powers, which were periodically renewed by the Reichstag, were still in effect when he took his own life some 12 years later.” http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0703a.asp
Adolf Hitler said, when announcing the Gestapo to the people, “An evil exists that threatens every man, woman and child of this great Nation. We must take steps to ensure our domestic security and protect our homeland.”
Report Post »colt1860
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 11:46pmConsider the warnings of James Madison, the father of our Constitution:
“The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.”
“If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.”
“Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.”
Listen to the wise words of Abraham Lincoln:
“Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step over the ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never! — All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a Thousand years. At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.”
Noah Webster declared, “If a republican government fails to secure public prosperity and happiness, it must be because the citizens neglect the divine commands, and elect bad men to make and administer the laws.”
Report Post »colt1860
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 11:58pmIn the TSA or DHS we trust? NO!
“We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven. We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us! It behooves us, then to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins, and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.” – Abraham Lincoln, Proclamation for a National Day of Fasting
Our nation trains the bravest troops, and commands the greatest military in the world. If we fall, it won’t be by the hand of foreigners, but because in our sins, we rejected God, from whence all our blessings come.
“A general Dissolution of Principles & Manners will more surely overthrow the Liberties of America than the whole Force of the Common Enemy. While the People are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their Virtue they will be ready to surrender their Liberties to the first external or internal Invader.” Samuel Adams
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on April 16, 2012 at 12:03amBill Baker · Top Commenter
Report Post »If we used the Israeli airport screening system in the United States, we would all be a lot safer and there would be significantly fewer complaints. Of course, most of today’s TSA grunts would be out of work because the Israeli system requires intelligent, well educated people to do the face to face rapid fire question screening.
rawmilker
Posted on April 16, 2012 at 12:05amthese jackbooted thugs are completely UNSAT. As futile a it may seem, flood the congress with your e mails and phonecalls. This type treatment is unacceptable. It will only get worse if not challenged to the max.
As usual corruption behind the scenes are making Michael Chertoff and other bureaucrats alot of $$. They are huge investors in the scanner equipment and the contracts they are awarded from the airports.
Refuse to fly if possible, hit them in the pocketbook. Boy are we being stomped on from every angle by these athoritarians in DC….Its a total powergrab for all out control.
Report Post »colt1860
Posted on April 16, 2012 at 12:08amIn these past SEVERAL decades, the federal Government has amassed a great amount of authority over our lives and livelihood. No more are we a nation that trusts in God, but a nation of cowards who squirm by the mention of the word terrorist. We have denied our Creator, from whence our Rights do come, and have adopted instead, the counsels of men, over the wisdom of God. We have too easily given up on our freedoms for an expedient sense of security. No more shall our sons inherit a home for the brave, but a desolate wasteland ruin by fear and death. Did not Christ come and conquer all? You all should be ashamed of yourselves for fearing principalities and nations, which will all be under the footstool of Christ.
“Resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian and social duty of each individual… Continue steadfast and, with a proper sense of your dependence on God, nobly defend those rights which heaven gave, and no man ought to take from us.” John Hancock
“And say, finally, whether peace is best preserved by giving energy to the government or information to the people. This last is the most certain and the most legitimate engine of government. Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. Enable them to see that it is their interest to preserve peace and order, and they will preserve them. And it requires no very high degree of education to convince them of this. They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.” Thomas Jefferson
Report Post »NeoFan
Posted on April 16, 2012 at 12:31amI read your comments about how you don’t like the treatment your getting from “Your” government and yet when I talk to people about getting rid of RINO’s like Orin Hatch, all I get is grief. He was on watch as the ATF and the FBI burned children alive at waco. He says nothing about the Fast and Furious gun running to criminals that has gotten our federal agents killed. People here in Utah say things like “we will lose seniority in the senate” if we get rid of Hatch. Our kids are brainwashed everyday in school and yet I know almost nobody that home schools their kids.
Report Post »They are preparing the gas chambers folks. Complain all you want but if your kids are in a government school or your still voting for the people that have overseen the implementation of the TSA and the rest of this crap and yet have not even lifted their voice for us then what do you expect.
Prepare for this to get much worse. Because the fact is that most people are doing nothing but complaining.
wdittgasn
Posted on April 16, 2012 at 4:25amThey won’t pat down the people that actually have a bomb or something on them, like the guy wearing a turban or the woman wearing the burka. or the guy named akmed. but they will do this to the innocent, I say profile away.
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on April 16, 2012 at 6:39amI can tell you what’s going on in the video. TSA woman is groping a passenger who is shaking and sobbing. I’m an abuse victim and I still have PTSD when confronted with control freaks. That’s all TSA is, a bunch of control freaks. That‘s why I don’t fly. I‘m afraid my PTSD would kick in and little ole 5’5 me, cancer patient and all, would try to take them all out and my children would be without a mother. They actually stroke your breasts and put their hands down inside your waist band. My sister in law (who isn’t an American, she’s from the Netherlands here on a visa) is fine with this because she doesn’t know what real freedom is. Let these people live under tyranny for a while and they’ll wonder, why didn’t we stop this when it was small?
Report Post »@leftfighter
Posted on April 16, 2012 at 7:38am“He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.” ~Ben Franklin
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on April 16, 2012 at 7:39amExactly correct Dissent. And what will people do now? Sit and gripe and then…nothing.
Cowards is exactly correct.
Report Post »Eleutheria
Posted on April 16, 2012 at 7:42amI’d rather have free in flight cocktails.
Report Post »johnjamison
Posted on April 16, 2012 at 7:58amBen Franklin said it best
Report Post »Those willing to trade liberty for security will end up with neither liberty or security.
flsnipe
Posted on April 16, 2012 at 8:17amWell said this what happens when you give up freedoms and liberty’s and give in to political correctness.
Report Post »B-Neil
Posted on April 16, 2012 at 9:24amLiked your comment. I’m adding. Stop the crap, DON’T FLY. God Bless America, Ohio and Individual freedom
Report Post »Cerealface
Posted on April 16, 2012 at 9:44amWRONG, this is what happens when you buy a plane ticket and get randomly picked for a search.
Report Post »sndrman
Posted on April 16, 2012 at 9:49amwonder how long before the alien anal probes? will they have ob-gyn on the payroll? maybe they’re looking for ET with special powers all encompassing? when we went to drop of my son to the gate so he could back to his Military base so we could spend last few moments with him. now my mom is 80′s can barely walk we usually get her a wheel chair and the last time what they did to her,my wife had to hold me back my other sons were furious beyond belief….sick sick Bastar dssss
Report Post »old white guy
Posted on April 16, 2012 at 10:17amand yet the idiots keep flying. stop for one week and refuse to fly again while tsa procedures are being used. don’t tell me that things would not change. civil disobedience is necessary to stop this crap.
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on April 16, 2012 at 10:29amMy Grandmothers were tougher than this! Comon!
Report Post »BlackCrow
Posted on April 16, 2012 at 11:35amIf those with CCW’s were allowed to carry on airplanes then there would be about one attempted hijacking before they figured out that it was futile.
Report Post »mycomet123
Posted on April 16, 2012 at 12:03pmSeriously, these people feed off of POWER. She should of started acting like she enjoyed it along with “all of a sudden” developing tourett’s syndrome, instead of crying. I’m sure the search would of ended more quickly!
Report Post »jpclarksville
Posted on April 16, 2012 at 12:08pmI watched a segment on Stossel showing how a privatized security company had shorter lines, didn’t frisk people, and were more effective than TSA. What the liberals like to argue is that privatized companies hire people off the street and pay them minimum wage…sounds more like what the government does…except the part about pay.
We need to start profiling like Israel does. Can’t argue with 100% accuracy.
Report Post »okienoodlerfan
Posted on April 16, 2012 at 12:26pmI ALWAYS opt out of the radiation screeners for the crappy patdown. I fly frequently. Last week after my patdown, the gloves the TSA used set off an alarm. I was told I would have to go into the back room for a further patdown–privately for my own comfort. BS. I refused to go to ANY back room with anyone. I had to go through 3 levels of TSA before they finally conducted the “more thourough” patdown in public. I had to “get loud” and stand my ground. People should really be refusing these backscatter machines. I sat beside a traveling commercial pilot on the flight who told me that the pilots don’t go through–too much radiation & very questionable issues with the calibration of the machines. We get enough radiation elsewhere. The gov. just wants to justify the idiotic purchase of all those machines. Come on people. Let’s get some backbone. Oh yeah, and they neglected to send me through the metal detector at all in leiu of their patdown. Whatever.
Report Post »VanceUppercut
Posted on April 16, 2012 at 12:36pm@johnjamison
“Those willing to trade liberty for security will end up with neither liberty or security.”
So I take it you weren‘t a fan of Bush’s (un)PATRIOT Act?
Report Post »jzs
Posted on April 16, 2012 at 2:01pmThe quoted article says, “You’re going through security, just passed through the naked scanner, you’re getting your bags and you witness a woman crying hysterically as she is getting her Obama TSA patdown?”
Did you catch the “Obama TSA patdown” part? TSA patdowns started in 2002, under the Bush administration. It was a 9-11 thing. That would make it a “Bush TSA patdown” I guess.
Report Post »KKC003
Posted on April 16, 2012 at 2:05pmyou are 100% correct!
Report Post »LOTO
Posted on April 16, 2012 at 5:16pm@ DISSENTNOW
Report Post »Spot on comment.
Flying for any reason only empowers the terrorists.
If people stop flying the airlines will fix this or go out of business.
I am appalled that people so willingly give up our freedom.
Why are people so bent on flying anyway? Door to door it really doesnt save that much time.
You can drive from Denver to KC for less time than it take to fly it from door to door. People only count the air time but if you count all the time and wait flying is not convenient anyway.
It used to take months to go coast to coast and now you can easily drive it in 5 days. So people are willing to give up freedom and liberty for 4 days time?
YesIWill
Posted on April 16, 2012 at 6:30pmOn April 15, at the Minneapolis/St. Paul airport, I watched my 17-year-old daughter get sexually assaulted. The perpetrator‘s hands were on my daughter’s buttocks and breasts. The perpetrator reached between my daughter‘s legs and shoved fingers into my daughter’s ******* area. The perpetrator was a flippant, sarcastic, uncaring TSA agent. Afterwards, my daughter said to me, “That‘s the farthest I’ve ever gone, Mom.” I did not understand. “Sexually,” she explained, “That‘s the farthest I’ve ever gone.” More than 24 hours later, we are both still reeling.
Report Post »Dinkiecb
Posted on April 16, 2012 at 7:48pmWelcome to the United States .. where you’ve given up your freedoms by allowing this to go on. No wonder the woman was crying…it’s humiliating for everyone! Yet another reason why I REFUSE to fly anymore! This is America, you shouldn’t have to give up your freedoms and be “patted down” for any reason just to get on an airplane.
Report Post »whitcheywoman13
Posted on April 16, 2012 at 10:11pmYou are exactly right. I would not allow this to happen to me. I’d be in jail for decking that broad if she did that to me. No shame.
Report Post »EndTheFedNOW
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 12:28amThe TSA is just a small part of the military industerial complex. Thru laws like the Patriot act and the NDAA (which republicans love, most anyway) our rights which our God givin, have been stripped. You cant hate the TSA and support the wars in the middle east. And if you do, your not seeing the whole picture. The American people have been soled that we need the wars we need to restrict the 4th admendment we need to cut down on free speech. Its all just part of a larger picture. The bankers hijacked our government and have looted everything. They know its coming to a end. So they start wars to distract. Then they start building up their police state. So that when everything crashes the bankers can sit off shore and let us kill eachother with class warfare. Then they can usher in world government.
Report Post »PATTY HENRY
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 3:38amTSA is an OBAMA invention for one purpose only: TO INTIMIDATE the AMERICAN PEOPLE. TO ATTEMPT TO TAKE CONTROL. Bloody Bastards. ISRAELIS could teach our security how to do it.
Report Post »THIS MAKES NO SENSE whatsoever. HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE mind sets… It is really time to kick all these creepy PROGRESSIVE COMMUNISTS MARXISTS ANTI-AMERICAN ISLAMIC TERRORIST SOCIALISTS LIBERAL the hell out of office.
georgette
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 9:43am………pay minimum wage , give authority …..and call it Sheep Control.
Report Post »iampraying4u
Posted on April 17, 2012 at 2:57pmIts better to be pat down than blowen up
Report Post »olivia4
Posted on April 18, 2012 at 5:49pmStop flying for about a week or two and wait for the reaction. Money is always the most influential speech, attention getter.
Report Post »Siamese Smile
Posted on April 19, 2012 at 8:00pmAmen to that. Everyone told me if I didn’t like it to leave. So I did. Best decision I’ve ever made. Been a happy expat for many years now. No way am I ever going back.
Report Post »Tom Ballard
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 8:27pmHitler, Would be proud
Report Post »TSUNAMI-22
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 8:40pm“Papers please, schnell!”
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 10:15pmI dont think Hitler had pedophiles doing feel ups on children….Not even thay evil bastard was that sick!
Report Post »janedough1
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 11:07pmI’m sitting here thinking that when I was a kid, and I saw the death camp videos of naked moms and grandma’s being paraded past sneering guards that that sort of horror could never happen here. But looking at that video, I can see that we are only a small step from that here now. When you can so totally depersonalize a woman in public like that, and walk away leaving her sobbing without even a word of comfort, you are capable of stripping her naked and marching her into the “showers.”
Report Post »colt1860
Posted on April 16, 2012 at 12:24am“One of the most traumatic events in German history occurred soon after Hitler took office. On February 27, 1933, in what easily could be termed the 9/11 terrorist attack of that time, German terrorists fire-bombed the German parliament building. It shouldn’t surprise anyone that Adolf Hitler, one of the strongest political leaders in history, would declare war on terrorism and ask the German parliament (the Reichstag) to give him temporary emergency powers to fight the terrorists. Passionately claiming that such powers were necessary to protect the freedom and well-being of the German people, Hitler persuaded the German legislators to give him the emergency powers he needed to confront the terrorist crisis. What became known as the Enabling Act allowed Hitler to suspend civil liberties “temporarily,” that is, until the crisis had passed. Not surprisingly, however, the threat of terrorism never subsided and Hitler’s “temporary” emergency powers, which were periodically renewed by the Reichstag, were still in effect when he took his own life some 12 years later.” http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0703a.asp
Adolf Hitler said, when announcing the Gestapo to the German people, “An evil exists that threatens every man, woman and child of this great Nation. We must take steps to ensure our domestic security and protect our homeland.”
Report Post »VanceUppercut
Posted on April 16, 2012 at 12:42pm@Tom Ballard
“Hitler, Would be proud”
When in doubt, compare something to Hitler.
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 8:27pmYes citizens the vaunted TSA will protect you from all forms of terrorism,step right up and we‘ll degrade you in public and violate your fourth amendment right but hey you’ll be ‘safe’.
The government has no constitutional authority to provide security at airports and security should be handled by the airlines not unionized government zombies working for an unconstitutional Dept.
Report Post »Dalady
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 10:07pmWhat is the one major airport without TSA thugs? Yeah, GB was surprised, too, that it’s San Fran. You’re right, ProgSlayer, there is no law that says an airport has to give it up to these thugs. I might be wailing, too, like the woman in the vid if they want to touch me. Don’t touch me! OMG
Report Post »madasblazes
Posted on April 16, 2012 at 5:45pmThe gov’t hires low-IQ individuals to follow orders and exert control over people.
Report Post »It is to instill FEAR.
Fear, so you will comply.
Fear, so you won’t resist.
FEAR to control you; because they are afraid of the People.
RESIST this personal violation.
“I Will Not Comply!”
LeadNotFollow
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 8:24pm…
Report Post »Has anyone ever seen a Muslim get patted down?
They get to walk right on through, wearing their “bath robes”, with “towels” on their heads.
progressiveslayer
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 8:30pmMuslims would be considered one of Holder’s people and therefore protected from the thuggish tactics at TSA.
Report Post »rawmilker
Posted on April 16, 2012 at 1:16amAgain, boycott flying, this is BS they are looking at everyone as if guilty until proven innocent,
BTW did anyone hear Holder this week praising the douchebag al sharpton this past week on his ‘handling of the trevon martin case”. serious folks, you can’t make this stuff up….
Report Post »HookedM
Posted on April 16, 2012 at 10:33amActually you are incorrect, but I have neither the time nor the willingness to explain our procedures.
Report Post »KangarooJack
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 8:21pmOn a side note, looks like the TSA female employee actually looked upset too. I almost think she would have given the sobber a hug if she {the employee} were not afraid of being fired.
Report Post »OlefromMN
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 8:20pmI hate the TSA as much as the next guy, but this appears to be over-dramatization. She was given a standard pat down and not “groped” in the TSA claim to fame.
Report Post »HorseCrazy
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 9:19pmexcept as pointed out the speculation of previous sexual assault….it can take women years if ever to be touched again. who knows but I am tired of the tsa I no longer fly commercial after they stole my underware and cut the pictures of me out of my family photos. Violated. thats how I felt when I opened up my bags
Report Post »angelcat
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 9:43pmSome people react more strongly than others when their personal space is invaded. That’s why some people are huggers and others are not. For someone who has that particular “foible”, it really is very upsetting when their space and bodies are violated like this. It may seem like an over reaction to you, but it is a very real threat to them.
Report Post »MCDAVE
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 10:06pmHorsecrazy …The worst I have even been treated was in Paris France…Not allowed to board my flight..My luggage upended all the soaps and lotions dumped over the clothing..The Only offense Being American Hunters returning from South Africa…My outfitter will no longer book connecting flights through France for his clients..Both my Wife and I were detained in a room full of Arabs in there Muslim garb,the only two Americans in there were us..Looking back on it, it makes for a good story now..but it was extremely uncomfortable at the time
Report Post »blazer809
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 11:14pmyeah, i think i’m with you on this one…..not sure what happened for she started crying but that seemed pretty harmless. Don’t let the over dramatic dictate your actions….
Report Post »sonnetswan
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 11:57pmBeat your plows into shackles and your pruning hooks into chains…
Safety comes first for the American titmouse.
Report Post »Mary Just
Posted on April 16, 2012 at 3:13amYour a real crexp Olefrommn. Hopefully your wife or daughter will get the deluxe pat down treatment fromn the TSA at an airport. In fact now that the NDAA is in effect maybe you should be investigated by the authorities.
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on April 16, 2012 at 7:53amStandard pat down?
Wow, what a strange America I live in now.
Report Post »madasblazes
Posted on April 16, 2012 at 5:50pmWere you there?
Didn’t think so..how is this short clip able to convey to you “standard patdown”.
The point is this: TSA is ineffective, incompetant and UnConstitutional.
Report Post »Never about safety……..ALWAYS about control.
LeadNotFollow
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 8:18pm…
Report Post »Why are the female TSA agents so manly looking?
I’ve yet to see a sweet, petite, friendly lady, conducting a pat down.
I think the pat downs should be done by licensed nurses, not by these Muslim trained Nazis.
dmforman
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 11:22pmI was thinking that when I flew to Chicago a few weeks back. Not a feminine TSA agent amongst the bunch. I guess that must be part of the hiring process. The government needs to make sure that they have their base taken care by giving them jobs for the November election and to spread their BS.
Report Post »Darlie
Posted on April 16, 2012 at 12:58amI’ve noticed that, too, especially when they were patting down my 80 year old mother who had a cast on her foot and was being wheeled into the plane. Their look and what they did to my mother were both pathetic.
Report Post »Caniac Steve
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 8:17pmthe more we let and allow them to do this…they will take & regulate our rights and liberties away even more !! I Will Not Comply !!
Report Post »AmazingGrace8
Posted on April 16, 2012 at 11:20am@hatchetjob
I refuse to fly but like you said in your post, here is a thought. If Casey Anthony can get on a private jet (I am being snarky), people who have to fly for business purposes, why not “pool” their money together & buy or rent a private jet etc. and avoid commercial airlines as much as possible.I know GMC got themselves into trouble with “the master”, however, they were “begging” so their private jets went south,LOL. I am sure there is another “Virgin-Air” type that just want to provide a service for their fellow business friends. Just a thought..but then I am a rebel. I respect authority but when they act with tyranny & act like clowns, I draw the line in the sand.
Report Post »Quasimofo
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 8:17pmHaven’t flown since 2002 and damn sure not about to start now F them.
Report Post »hatchetjob
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 8:21pmSame here. I feel sad for the people who have to fly for business purposes though.
Report Post »randy
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 8:43pmI drove to texas from Syracuse, NY two months ago because I refuse to fly as long as the TSA is in power. And what a pleasant trip it was.
Report Post »anOpinion
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 9:07pmYou won’t be safe for long, remember, they are “transportation” meaning, buses, trains, cars, and anything else you can think of.
Here they are searching cars …
Report Post »http://sarasota.patch.com/articles/tsa-conducts-random-car-inspections-at-srq#video-8830631
colt1860
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 11:24pmTruth is, I never did trust the TSA, DHS, or FEMA when it was created and expanded during Bush’s two terms, and I sure as hell don’t trust them now with Obama in office. All it takes is for us to elect another fake Conservative, and we’ll blindly accept this kind of BS again. And that’s the hard truth right there.
Report Post »voodoolife
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 11:29pmYup! And, you really get to SEE America when you drive! I drove from Los Angeles to Colorado Springs, stopped at several places along the way and it was awesome! Arizona, Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas. Meet great people and had that crazy think called fun! They ain’t touching my junk!
Report Post »colt1860
Posted on April 16, 2012 at 12:58am@voodoolife Amen. I still remember the road trip my family took when I was about 12, from Maryland all the way to California. Those deserts in those western states are just Beautiful! A family united, bothered, and enjoying a good time. I hope too soon take a trip down America’s main road, route 66, and preserve what little Americana memories I can garner in today’s modern Anti-American world.
Thanks to the intrusive introduction, under a progressive administration, of massive national highways and initiated by our federal Government for the purpose of streamlining our Nation’s “National Defense”, we no longer have an America wherein roads connected Americans and… Well, that’s a whole other story…
Report Post »colt1860
Posted on April 16, 2012 at 1:06am*A family united, not bothered, and enjoying a good time.
Report Post »LeadNotFollow
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 8:10pm…
Report Post »I know a rather small, white, male, senior citizen, who gets pulled aside and patted down every time he flies.
This guy has no criminal record, not even a traffic violation. He doesn’t even drink or smoke.
I think the TSA pulls him aside because he’s such an easy target to bully and get away with it.
dugbru
Posted on April 16, 2012 at 12:38amYou are wrong, they pat him down to prove they don’t profile.
It’s liberal PC crapolla .
Report Post »whatthecrazy
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 8:07pmNo thanks, i’ll drive,walk,or go by boat but i am not paying to be fondaled by some nasty pervert while some muslim slips right through because they will cry foul and they are mistreated.Ya know i try not to hate people but it has become a full time job.
Report Post »copatriots
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 9:29pmThe problem with the “don’t fly” concept is that the O admin via Bis Sis wants to extend TSA’s authority to “feel ups” to subways, ball games, trains…….basically anywhere people gather together. If O gets another term, you can expect that to be implemented immediately. Anything to control the masses……
Report Post »justangry
Posted on April 16, 2012 at 2:33am@Copatriots, It isn’t Obama who did this. GW Bush signed it into law. Rick Santorum voted for it while in the Senate. Bachman voted for it. All of my state’s Congressmen/Senators voted for it. (Dems and Reps) Newt and Mitt said they support it. There’s only a handful of politicians who said, “no”. The bottom line is, if you’re not voting out your representatives who voted for it, and not supporting RP for president, you’re A-OK with this stuff.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on April 16, 2012 at 10:24amJUSTANGRY, Hey numbnutz, who do you think is running the TSA now. Nixon brought on the EPA but he is certainly not running it now. The POS in the White House is running all of these agencies via his cabinet or czars. It does not matter who signed the bill into law that brought us the TSA. Oh yeah, I had to hold my nose to vote Bush….all three times. He did a lot of things that I did not like, but I have to also consider the alternative…Gore or Lurch.
Report Post »colt1860
Posted on April 16, 2012 at 12:13pm@RJJinGadsden There were plenty of people sounding the alarm when the TSA was introduced. There was plenty of people sounding the alarm when the body scanners were introduced. Thing is, our very own “conservatives” called us unpatriotic, appeasing the terrorists, conspiracy theorists, and nuts. I WILL NEVER trust ANYONE with unconstitutional powers. All it takes is for us to elect a fake conservative, and we’ll blindly accept this kind of BS again. When Bush sent in the National Guard to the streets of New Orleans during Katrina, and other military troops, not to necessarily help, but to blockade and police streets, many called him out on that, yet we were labeled unpatriotic, and whiners. Truth be told, the New Orleans police along with the National Guard CONFISCATED GUNS from private citizens. The problem was not voting in Bush, the problem was being fooled into practically supporting all legislation signed by Bush, knowing that such a legislation was contrary to the Constitution or our freedom. I don’t care if Bush said he was Conservative, and just trying to protect us, it’s all dead without works. The Constitution and God were here way before Bush was even born. The Law of the Land and our Lord take precedent and preference over any worldly leader.
Report Post »Godzgrl247
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 8:05pmI think it’s a silly video. Some woman is standing there crying and we’re being told what to make of it. I have not experienced “groping” at the airport and I certainly wouldn’t stand there like an idiot crying about it if I did.
Report Post »jujubeebee
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 8:10pmThey stuck the hand up my private parts.
Report Post »jimmysinatra
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 8:30pmYou just told us a lot about you… not even the TSA wants to feel you up. Good luck there Mz. Fluke.
Report Post »Elena2010
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 8:33pmShe may have been a rape/sexual assault victim in the past who has not yet healed.
Sexual assault is absolutely the hardest assault to recover from. You are a boy or a girl; it remains your most basic definition of self. Rape/sexual assault attacks that using a weapon that should represent the most loving of intimacy. I have counseled rape victims who often have said that they felt as if they had been murdered, but they were left walking “alive.”
That kind of groping can cause a rape victim to flashback and re-experience the assault they survived all over again. Rape/sexual assault produces PTSD as surely as intense combat experiences.
There is absolutely NOTHING redemptive in these kinds of pat downs for non-custodial criminals or suspects.
Pat downs are reactionary looks at security not proactive approaches toward stopping it.
Report Post »bigmel754
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 8:40pm@GODZGRL247
Report Post »Letting you sensitive side show, aren’t we! Gee Wiz! Not everyone is as tuff as you, thank GOD!
valencyspeaks
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 10:26pmGODSGRL247: Perhaps you have been fortunate enough to make it through life without being raped, molested, or otherwise sexually assaulted. Many women in the U.S. aren’t that fortunate. I am one of them. I was manhandled by the TSA in 2011 as was my then 10-month old daughter. All my Special Ops husband could do was stand by and helplessly watch his wife and infant daughter be touched in ways he would normally pound someone over the head for, all in the name of “safety.” I stood there and wept, not as loudly as this woman, but it was so violating. While we were being patted down and our bags searched, a Muslim family went through security right after us. They were not selected for screening but the wife and infant daughter of a 24-year U.S. veteran was.
Needless to say, we will no longer fly anywhere as a family and will not until my children are adults and can make that decision for themselves.
Report Post »madasblazes
Posted on April 16, 2012 at 6:02pmYour time will come, girl…and you will be offended.
The ‘act’ it meant to Offend. Only the mindless will say it is ‘no big deal’.
Report Post »Sloburn
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 8:03pmThe security screening done here in the US has nothing to do with security. It is the government reminding you who is the boss.
If you want to fly, you will not mind the boot of our thug government on your neck.
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 8:14pmThat pretty much sums it up because all these so called ‘wars’ like the ‘war’ on terror,drugs and poverty are in reality a war on our constitution and the brown shirts conducting those ‘wars’ have no regard for the constitution or Americans,they‘re ’just following orders’.
Report Post »colt1860
Posted on April 16, 2012 at 1:34amTrue. How else do you explain this story:
TSA Mistreats Woman and Toddler
http://www.nowpublic.com/nightmare_at_reagan_national_airport_a_security_story_to_end_all_security_stories
Report Post »acovenantinblood
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 8:00pmYup, and Americans keep whining and whining about it. Keep flying around and whining about how you’re treated. Oh this is egregious! Until you’re ready to quit flying then shut up!
Report Post »not_content
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 8:13pmI would agree but I have a wonderful family and like to see them from time to time.
Report Post »Matrix22
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 8:16pmI agree for the most part, but unfortunately for people like myself who are in the military, sometimes traveling requires flying and there’s simply no choice about it. (well, I guess I could go AWOL?)
Report Post »hatchetjob
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 8:24pmTo NOT CONTENT, Why not take a bus? Or carpool?
Report Post »The Gooch
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 8:43pmWhat’s funny is Americans demanded govt. do something to keep them safe.
Report Post »AxelPhantom
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 11:21pmI have not flown since these new regulations were put in place and will not fly again until they are removed or security is privatized.
Report Post »VanceUppercut
Posted on April 16, 2012 at 12:40pm@The Gooch
“What’s funny is Americans demanded govt. do something to keep them safe.”
Exactly. People demand tough measures to ensure their safety, and then whine when the tough measures actually effect them.
Report Post »The Gooch
Posted on April 16, 2012 at 8:16pmVanceUppercut:
Report Post »I don’t believe stupid and ham-fisted necessarily equates to tough. Why is it so difficult to be smart and efficient… which could equate to tough? The problem is elements of society believe that we are all guilty until proven innocent. The TSA is a joke; intelligent security shouldn’t be.
SageInWaiting
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 7:59pmBoth the airlines and TSA – flying hasn’t been “fun” for years. You are little more than cattle, or worse. It’s REALLY not worth it anymore.
Report Post »LeadNotFollow
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 7:57pm…
Report Post »Why does it seem that the TSA agents only pat down white folks?
Isn’t that racial profiling?
kickagrandma
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 8:13pmBIN GO LADEN SOME where else!
Report Post »blackyb
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 7:57pmI had rather be patted than blown out of the sky.
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 8:24pmSo you prefer security and safety?
Rather than:
Freedom and Liberty?
ON September Eleventh Two thousand and one Just under Four thousand innocent Americans (and others) were murdered. And our government’s solution? the t.s.a. They have not made our skies one iota safer- yet you are ok with this?
I would ‘feel safer’ in a plane where every person of age had a firearm and knew how to use it.
The government vise is closing; and you are ok with that?
Report Post »Elena2010
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 8:26pmIi wonder what you’ll say when one of the enemy blows up a flight w/C-4 up his butt. Are you going to go along w/full body cavity searches?
PROFILE! It’s not racist; it’s smart.
Report Post »The Gooch
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 8:40pmTreating everyone like a criminal instead of focusing on the known demographic that is a threat is just stupid. It’s a perpetuation of the zero tolerance policy. The U.S. govt. is generally a tool that is used as an inefficient sledge, not an effective scalpel. In keeping it “fair” for everyone, the idiots made it fair to no one. Defend this at risk of appearing… simple.
Report Post »dissentnow
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 8:46pm@BlackyB
Report Post »“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety”
~Benjamin Franklin
Brooke Lorren
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 11:52pmThere are some fates worse than death. Living under tyranny is one of them…
Report Post »Balthazor
Posted on April 16, 2012 at 9:52am@dissentnow
Please stop with the quote.It’s about the most naive thing ever cited, and is always taken out of the context of it’s original intent. The entire BASIS for civilization is surrendering some liberty for security. Obviously we’ve gone too far with surrendering liberty for safety, but to toss out that quote to imply that surrendering ANY liberty for safety is a bad thing is just plain silly and basically advocates anarchy, something I‘m pretty sure Franklin wasn’t trying to do.
Report Post »colt1860
Posted on April 16, 2012 at 12:47pm@Balthazor The basis of Government is not to have the people surrender some liberty for security. THAT’S ABSOLUTE TYRANNY. The purpose of Government, in a most brief statement, is to secure the rights of the people and to ensure the safety and happiness of the citizenry. A nation may provide it’s citizens COMMON DEFENSE, but only A FREE AND ARMED PEOPLE can ensure the SECURITY of a free State, Government union thugs need not apply.
Report Post »madasblazes
Posted on April 16, 2012 at 6:09pm@blackyb
Report Post »You are ignorant.
dissentnow
Posted on April 16, 2012 at 6:44pm@Balthazor
Report Post »Please tell me the original context.
You are naive about liberty, freedom, and tyranny.
Go read up on Jefferson and Franklin.
patspeak
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 7:57pmWhen we the people of the United States get rid of Obama at the election booths Nov. 2012, the TSA will be History!
Report Post »Thighmaster
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 8:00pmJust like the huge changes promised from the mid term elections ???
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 8:20pmI applaud your optimism,however when an unconstitutional Dept.such as TSA is created two things will happen it’ll get bigger and never go away.Ronald Reagan tried to get rid of the unconstitutional Dept.of education and last I checked it’s still around.
Report Post »The Gooch
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 8:35pmFor the umpteenth time, the TSA is a product of George W. Bush’s administration. My God, ignorance is bliss.
Report Post »This is what the travelling public got right after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Careful what you wish for…
10/19/2001, the TSA is signed into law by George W. Bush. Obama was still in the Illinois Senate.
progressiveslayer
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 8:46pmTHE GOOCH That’s right Bush did give us the unconstitutional TSA,he also gave us medicare part D another expansion of the federal government so Bush was no conservative he was a big government progressive.
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 8:49pmTHE GOOCH
The t.s.a. is the result of the mentality: “there ought to be a law” or “the government should”
People around the world (including here) Hate/despise/loathe the US government. yet they like/love America – the country and it’s people.
Our government is out of control and far too many of our politicians either cannot or will not do anything to reign the government in.
Report Post »bigmel754
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 8:52pm@THE GOOCH
Report Post »Who said anything about it being or not being BUSH? The topic is about TSA and a lady being frisked while living in what once was a free country. It is humiliating for any individual to be treated this way.
dissentnow
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 9:06pmTwo things:
Report Post »1) The Gooch is right about Bush starting the TSA
2) Do you really think that president Romney will abolish the TSA?
RJJinGadsden
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 9:12pmTHE GOOCH, Agreed, the TSA was a horrible idea when the Bush administration signed it into law. The real trouble today lies with who now runs the TSA. Janet Napolotano under further guidance from the oval office.
Report Post »cromag11b
Posted on April 16, 2012 at 1:09pmWow, how do you remember to breath?
Who created the TSA?
Who Pushed the Patriot Act that stripped the constitution?
Who created the largest government organization in US history? ((doubling the size of govt in one stroke)
Hint it started with a G & B.
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 7:57pmIf it had been me, I would have decked the sucker!!!
Report Post »whitcheywoman13
Posted on April 16, 2012 at 10:32pmI’m right there with you. That *explentive* would be talking with a squeeky voice. The TSA is the MAIN reason I do not fly anymore. If I did, and I was wearing my stiletto heels, heaven forbid some moron tried to sieze the plane, those 6″ heels put nice little holes in you and you STILL look good wearing them =)
Report Post »Thighmaster
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 7:56pmJust wait until the new IRS medical team scrubs up.
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 10:19pmThat is creepy funny………………and not far from the probable truth.
Report Post »blackyb
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 7:56pmWell, don’t fly.
Report Post »Schteveo
Posted on April 16, 2012 at 12:18amYeah that’s the answer.
We ALL have 4 or 5 days to drive cross country to visit Granny and Gramps, a week out there and 4 or 5 days to drive home. And gas is so cheap, that drive is an easy, cheap no brainer right?
You’re this dumb all the time, aren’t you?
Report Post »madasblazes
Posted on April 16, 2012 at 6:18pmBLACKYB takes pride in being ignorant.
Mostly, I think BLACKYB is scared. (((Do not count on this person to rally in-flight, should a need arise.)))
Baaaaa black yb
Report Post »Thighmaster
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 7:52pmJust wait until the new IRS medical team scrubs up…
Report Post »ARSILHOUETTE
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 7:52pmI will probably go to jail the first time one of those TSA pediphiles gropes one of my grandkids.
Report Post »colt1860
Posted on April 16, 2012 at 1:05amHere, let me clarify your statement for those that can’t read between the lines:
One of those TSA pediphiles will most definitely go to the hospital if they ever grope one of my grandkids.
Report Post »youdidthis
Posted on April 16, 2012 at 11:05amguaranteed , touch one of mine …be lucky to go to the hospital.
will not comply…ever.
Report Post »Brooke Lorren
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 7:50pm:-( you also have people who won’t fly just to avoid situations like that. What a sorry world we live in…
Report Post »DeavonReye
Posted on April 16, 2012 at 9:24amYes. And I am one of them. I will not use airline services while big brother demands that some other guy feels me up.
So sorry for that woman. Makes me wonder if she experienced some sexual abuse in the past, and such “feeling up” brought it back to the surface?
Report Post »whitcheywoman13
Posted on April 16, 2012 at 10:34pmThey are the MAIN reason I won’t fly. I’d rather DRIVE across country than put up with that crap from them. They’re worse than the Gestapo.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 7:42pmWhen is enough going to be enough and we get rid of the TSA thugs?
Report Post »CatB
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 7:53pmNow!
Report Post »team1blazer
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 7:54pmAs soon as we get rid of all the progressives (and yes, that includes RINOS)
Report Post »The_Almighty_Creestof
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 7:57pmWhen people stop flying. If people boycott airports in favor of cars, trains or just staying/vacationing at home…these perverted wannabe cops would soon find themselves where they belong…flipping burgers at a fast food establishment.
Push them out the door by withholding your money.
Report Post »MrButcher
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 8:40pmLets go one step further and get ride of the entire Federal Government….
Report Post »dissentnow
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 9:31pmLets get rid of about 80% of the federal government. That would be a good start.
Report Post »VanceUppercut
Posted on April 16, 2012 at 12:37pm@Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Well, you can thank King George the Unwise for those “TSA thugs”. He was the one who created the damn agency.
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