Posted on 11/20/2010 10:53:27 PM PST by FTJM
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.”
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I think that we should follow this man’s example, wear warm up suits with spandex underwear and strip down at the security lines. Tell the TSA inspector, look but don’t touch. We could have lawyers at the security check points filming the whole thing. It would an excellent example of mass civil disobedience to unlawful government violation of our 4th amendment rights.
Nothing will change until Americans start openly discussing, advocating, and demanding the indictment, trial, conviction, and execution of sentence against those in the three federal branches of government for giving aid and comfort to the enemy and treason against the U.S.
Until Americans demand that the rule of law bring justice to traitors, such traitors are not going to change their ways.
yep, it’s no different than bullies at school making you give them your lunch money, or else. all bullies ever understand is a smack in the jaw, they need to get the “or else” themselves. Are we men or mice?
Mice!
Absolutely. BTTT
In Israel you are groped before entering Walmart (or the
local equivalent thereof). Every mall, restaurant, hotel,
hospital and bank has a armed security man out front and
he pats down and checks the belongings of everyone who wants to enter.
This isn’t Israel. This is America.
the problem is we got that Chertoff’s “security” now. Tell him to take it to Israel if it’s so darn good
ok, but a couple hundred thousand mice up your pants cant be fun.
Thank you, and exactly right.
ewwwwwwwwwwwwwww!! lol
Zero's apparent distain and hatred of real Americans is obvious to anyone with eyes to see yet he was voted in anyway. So, I wonder, did they vote for him out of stupidity or because of his race or do those voters feel that same?.
They should NOT have taken the child away - this liberal has my sympathy. On a lighter TSA note:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joIxWcFO3bY
I flat out would not have allowed this to happen in my presence. Shame on those who stood nearby and allowed it. What kind of human beings would watch and do nothing?! I would have rallied the crowd around me.
I WILL rally the crowd around me if I see such unconscionable behavior. We do not have to put up with this. It’s not necessary for security.
Wake up, citizens. This is the line in the sand. Don’t let them cross it. Phone calls and demonstrations aren’t going to stop this. You must physically intervene. Stand together in a crowd and refuse to allow groping and humiliation of the citizenry.
Don’t get a certain person on Free Republic with a train obsession started( wink, wink).
Napolitano need s to be hung.
Napolitano must be thrown from office.
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