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Weeping four-year-old girl accused of carrying a GUN by TSA officers
The London Daily Mail ^ | April 24, 2012 | Hugo Gye

Posted on 04/24/2012 9:55:17 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued

Of all the many complaints about airport security and the TSA, one of the most common is that they make little distinction between plausible security threats and passengers unlikely to be doing anything wrong.

And a recent incident in Wichita, Kansas has reinforced that argument, as a four-year-old girl was apparently subjected to a humiliating ordeal after she hugged her grandmother while she was waiting in line.

The girl was accused of having a gun and declared a 'high security threat', while agents threatened to shut down the whole airport if she could not be calmed down.

When asked about the overbearing treatment the girl received, a TSA spokesman did not apologise and insisted that correct procedures had been followed.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Government; US: Kansas
KEYWORDS: tsa
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1 posted on 04/24/2012 9:55:21 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
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To: Impy; fieldmarshaldj; GOPsterinMA; traviskicks; bamahead; Zanton; 2ndDivisionVet; wagglebee; ...

What kind of people does the government employ? They do this to a girl who’s barely a toddler. Would they have done this if she were an adult illegal alien?


2 posted on 04/24/2012 9:57:56 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (A liberal's compassion is limited to the size of other peoples' paychecks)
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To: Clintonfatigued

I just can’t believe that the Republicans have not yet tried to demolish the TSA! What are they waiting for? The people are behind them probably 80% - are they waiting for a higher majority? Geez - This is ridiculous!

I refuse to travel by plane until things change!


3 posted on 04/24/2012 10:01:15 PM PDT by Deagle (nOT Get a)
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To: Clintonfatigued; xzins
Would they have done this if she were an adult illegal alien?

Illegal aliens can't get on commercial airplanes because... THEY HAVE TO SHOW TSA A GOVERNMENT ISSUED PHOTO ID!

They can vote but they can't travel by air.

4 posted on 04/24/2012 10:02:49 PM PDT by P-Marlowe
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To: Deagle
What are they waiting for?

Republiwusses are waiting for their stones to expand from the microscopic.

5 posted on 04/24/2012 10:07:44 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it and the law is what WE say it is.)
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To: Navy Patriot

Well, I’d guess that unless the majority become Doctors, that we are lost but still waiting for results.


6 posted on 04/24/2012 10:13:03 PM PDT by Deagle (nOT Get a)
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To: Clintonfatigued; fieldmarshaldj; GOPsterinMA; BillyBoy; SunkenCiv; sickoflibs; NFHale; ...

I wish I could remember the name of the freeper that said she was a TSA agent and that there are just a few rotten eggs in their ranks giving her and the other angels she works with a unfair bad rap.


7 posted on 04/24/2012 10:13:22 PM PDT by Impy (Don't call me red.)
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To: Clintonfatigued

Thanks George W!!!!

Real well thought out plan you put in there.

Thousands Standing Around need to be privatized.


8 posted on 04/24/2012 10:13:54 PM PDT by Rome2000 (Rick Santorum -Mission Accomplished)
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To: Clintonfatigued
They did have an employment campaign - on the back of pizza boxes. This of course; gives rise to the worst instincts of those 'least empowered'; who are now in uniform; at our security gates. . .And of course, it is meant to give 'rise to the worst'. Who else would do this?

It's a variation; but the 'same stuff' of useful idiots. . .

Of course; there ARE some decent folks in these positions; just not enough; given the task at hand.

9 posted on 04/24/2012 10:16:57 PM PDT by cricket ( It is not just 'the economy' and Newt knows it. . .)
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To: Clintonfatigued
Would they have done this if she were an adult illegal alien?

How about a Muslim or a child of one. NOPE; they would not. For that matter; how many childen of 'color'; have been victimized by TSA? Would bet 'NONE". . .

10 posted on 04/24/2012 10:21:08 PM PDT by cricket ( It is not just 'the economy' and Newt knows it. . .)
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11 posted on 04/24/2012 10:31:58 PM PDT by garjog
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To: Rome2000

Thank you RINO Congress members and Democrats; and yes, some Conservative votes here. And yes; thanks too; to GW; who appeared unable to resist what seemed a pushy ‘mandate’ as the ‘smoke’ still burned from 9/11.


12 posted on 04/24/2012 10:32:43 PM PDT by cricket ( It is not just 'the economy' and Newt knows it. . .)
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13 posted on 04/24/2012 10:42:44 PM PDT by dfwgator (Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
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To: Clintonfatigued
Doug Casey has a good take on it...

Have you ever wondered where the 50,000 people employed by the TSA to inspect and degrade you came from? Most of them are middle-aged. Did they have jobs before they started doing something that any normal person would consider demeaning? Most did, but they were attracted to – not repelled by – a job where they wear a costume and abuse their fellow citizens all day.
14 posted on 04/24/2012 10:48:02 PM PDT by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: garjog

Why do these pictures make me want to shout the f word over and over, actually the f word w/a few others attached to it.


15 posted on 04/24/2012 11:39:10 PM PDT by punditwannabe
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To: Clintonfatigued

I went through this crap twice. It was enough.

Haven’t flown since.


16 posted on 04/24/2012 11:50:41 PM PDT by AnTiw1
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To: garjog

“All right Dog Breath, Spread em”


17 posted on 04/24/2012 11:54:56 PM PDT by haroldeveryman
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To: Clintonfatigued

All these well-paid TSA gropers with their union jobs are giving the illusion that they are protecting America from air terrorism. What a joke.

Nothing they are doing will detect the body cavity implantation of explosives. That old man with a huge pot gut and a pacemaker may actually have a bomb detonator made to look like a pacemaker and a pot gut filled with Semtex (not the similarly named energy drink). As little as 250 grams (or a little more than 1/2 LB) of Semtex can bring down an airline.

The Muslim terrorists have all the time in the world to perfect their internally implanted bomb designs on live animals.

Might I add, FUTSA!


18 posted on 04/25/2012 2:28:33 AM PDT by jonrick46 (Countdown to 11-06-2012)
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To: Deagle
I just can’t believe that the Republicans have not yet tried to demolish the TSA!

What makes you think that the Republicans have any interest in constitutional government or in reducing or even reigning in any government function? Republicans gave us "no child left behind," and the senior prescription drug give away funded by our tax dollars to name just two examples. The ethanol as a motor fuel farce is due to Republicans. Even Reagan signed into law the unconstitutional ban on full auto weapons. They're really just "Democrat lite" when it comes to government excesses.

19 posted on 04/25/2012 3:49:12 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: Clintonfatigued

Free men and women don’t do this #%ap to one another and their kids.


20 posted on 04/25/2012 3:53:57 AM PDT by mo (If you understand, no explanation is needed. If you don't understand, no explanation is possible.)
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