Posted on 01/03/2016 11:04:45 AM PST by BBell
Maybe I'm over reacting ? I would have no problem submitting myself for a pat down, I support a high level of security, but I feel invasive touching of Children crosses the line, unless credible evidence exists.
On 12/30/15 TSA ordered a full Pat Down of my 10 year old daughter & detained us for over an hour (see YouTube video of the Pat Down, the link is below)
TSA policy states PAT Downs of children under 12 should be method of last resort.
In my 10 yr old daughter's case, after clearing metal detector, a forgotten Capri Sun juice pack was found in her hand bag by x-ray & agent swabbed bag resulting in a false positive.
Rather than retesting bag or alternate screening methods, my daughter was immediately ordered to submit to a full body Pat Down, and I was told I could not record the process. Luckily I knew the law regarding video recording and agent subsequently allowed me to record.
TSA policy states children under 12 will receive a "Modified Pat Down" yet my 10 year old received a full adult pat down. I feel it was intrusive, invasive, and unnecessary.
TSA made it clear I would be arrested if I resisted the search of my daughter.
TSA attempted to persuade me to allow my daughter into a private room, I felt safer with the general public surrounding us and refused several efforts to whisk us away.
TSA agent repeatedly touched my daughters buttocks and other sensitive areas with her palm & fingers not back of hand.
ROL!
My impression has been that the quality of TSA agents has increased in recent years. The ones I have dealt with seem professional and not idiots. Maybe it depends on the airport.
Folks who want to be taken seriously will spell stuff correctly.
That’s just how the world works. Eyes are drawn to the error and
away from whatever message is trying to be conveyed. It calls into
question all the rest of the account.
And no, I didn’t watch the video.
None of this crap is necessary and all of it is about intimidating Americans. They need to profile people and stop molesting little kids, women and old people. This is just Bull $**t and we have that moron GWB to thank for it.
If I had a kid potentially subject to TSA pat-down, I’d prepare the kid so that the instant he/she feels any contact with the private area to scream at the top of their lungs and keep it up non-stop. Might not stop the TSA but it sure would reinforce a later case of molestation.
On a couple of other recent occasions I was stopped when I set off their alarms and I was treated in a polite and reasonable way. In both cases it was something that they should have checked out and they did only what was necessary.
This is just Bull $**t and we have that moron GWB to thank for it.
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I never flew that much ‘before’ but I refuse to fly now. I can drive where I want/have to go.
I am not ‘afraid’ of flying, crashing or being hijacked, I am ‘afraid’ of what I will do if I run into one of these heavy handed SOB ‘govt employees’.
The only way ‘WE the people’ can get around this is fly only when absolutely necessary.
If the pocketbooks start getting hit the attitudes of the people losing money will change.
Too easy now for the airlines to say ‘WE don’t approve of this treatment, it is the Government’. When the money ‘dries’ up, attitudes may change.
Of course ‘we’ have to get around that segment of society who thing all this BS is a perfectly ‘good’ thing.
I don’t want to pull the ‘I served in the Military so I wouldn’t have to put up with what we are putting up with now’ line, but......
Old guy was in Paris and stumbling to find his passport when the Custom Agent started getting on him for not being ready. Old guy said “Well, this is new to me, last time I was here I didn’t need a passport”...
“You are not only slow and old but you are stupid we always require a passport for Americans when arriving”
“Son, when I hit Normandy in 44 there were not only very few Frenchmen around but there damn sure weren’t any idiots asking for a passport”.
Look in the mirror. You need to learn sentence structure and punctuation.
“ordered to submit”
Sounds like something a dictator would say.
You are not permitted to qvestion der polizei.
I’m not pretending to write articles using “gropping” in the title, either.
Being a white American male at an airport no more than 30 miles from my home, I was unfortunately not surprised to be treated as a suspected terrorist/criminal. Meanwhile, middle easterners who could barely speak English passed right through around me without so much as a glance from TSA. Gee, I feel soooo safe. And this was in Newark airport, from which one of the 9/11 planes took off.
This ain't your father's America...
What is a Asian man these days?
Would he be from Japan, China, Pakistan, India or Thailand?
Or perhaps Siberia?
Because that isn't a word. Only a mentally challenged drunk blogger would try to spell "groping" like that.
As opposed to some of the spelling and grammar that passes as insightful commentary right here on Free Republic?
TSA at security checkpoints have no power to arrest. They can only prevent you from passing thru the security area. They can call the police but you must actually break a law for the cop to arrest you.
Assault, threats, or trying to get past the checkpoint will get you arrested.
You always have an option to call the police if you think you are being threatened or if TSA is sexually assaulting you.
The TSA rules by intimidation, knowing you want to get on your flight and have limited time.
Because there have been sooooo many incidents of sudden jihad syndrome by 10 year old American girls.
Wait, you mean not a single one, ever, in all of our history?
My, the TSA is so useful.
Had a worn out, crumpled 1/4 tube of toothpaste confiscated in Minneapolis some years ago. Never again.
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