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TSA Pat-Down Leaves Bladder Cancer Patient Humiliated, Crying & Soaked in Urine
The Blaze ^ | November 21, 2010 | Meredith Jessup

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.”

(Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com ...


TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: detroit; florida; hillaryclinton; johnpistole; lansing; michigan; orlando; tsa; tsapervs; tsascanners
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To: patriot08
With all the dry runs and bombs being found on passengers, why not do a through search?

Nits cause lice.

221 posted on 11/22/2010 5:07:14 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going.)
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To: patriot08
Correction:

Nits make lice.

222 posted on 11/22/2010 5:11:00 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going.)
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To: patriot08
What other option would you suggest? (seriously :) )

We arfe in a WAR!

What would you suggest we DO to end it? (seriously :) )

223 posted on 11/22/2010 5:13:42 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going.)
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To: patriot08
am only a young college student.

Ah...

NOW we understand your position!


Folks; this is caused by BRAINWASHING in the Education System; but most of us on FR already KNOW this.

224 posted on 11/22/2010 5:16:08 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going.)
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To: indylindy

People are outraged because the Constitution is THEY ARE being ignored.


225 posted on 11/22/2010 5:17:52 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going.)
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To: PA-RIVER

Not ‘can’ - but HAS!


226 posted on 11/22/2010 5:19:55 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going.)
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To: piytar
Hillary Clinton:

"We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."

227 posted on 11/22/2010 5:24:27 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going.)
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To: LomanBill
 
 

 
Eerily familiar...
 
 

Party ownership of the print media
made it easy to manipulate public opinion,
and the film and radio carried the process further.


 



16. Ministry Of Truth

.......

The Ministry of Truth, Winston's place of work, contained, it was said, three thousand rooms above ground level, and corresponding ramifications below.

The Ministry of Truth concerned itself with Lies. Party ownership of the print media made it easy to manipulate public opinion, and the film and radio carried the process further.

The primary job of the Ministry of Truth was to supply the citizens of Oceania with newspapers, films, textbooks, telescreen programmes, plays, novels - with every conceivable kind of information, instruction, or entertainment, from a statue to a slogan, from a lyric poem to a biological treatise, and from a child's spelling-book to a Newspeak dictionary.

Winston worked in the RECORDS DEPARTMENT (a single branch of the Ministry of Truth) editing and writing for The Times. He dictated into a machine called a speakwrite. Winston would receive articles or news-items which for one reason or another it was thought necessary to alter, or, in Newspeak, rectify. If, for example, the Ministry of Plenty forecast a surplus, and in reality the result was grossly less, Winston's job was to change previous versions so the old version would agree with the new one. This process of continuous alteration was applied not only to newspapers, but to books, periodicals, pamphlets, posters, leaflets, films, sound-tracks, cartoons, photographs - to every kind of literature or documentation which might conceivably hold any political or ideological significance.

When his day's work started, Winston pulled the speakwrite towards him, blew the dust from its mouthpiece, and put on his spectacles. He dialed 'back numbers' on the telescreen and called for the appropriate issues of The Times, which slid out of the pneumatic tube after only a few minutes' delay. The messages he had received referred to articles or news-items which for one reason or another it was thought necessary to rectify.

In the walls of the cubicle there were three orifices. To the right of the speakwrite, a small pneumatic tube for written messages; to the left, a larger one for newspapers; and on the side wall, within easy reach of Winston's arm, a large oblong slit protected by a wire grating. This last was for the disposal of waste paper. Similar slits existed in thousands or tens of thousands throughout the building, not only in every room but at short intervals in every corridor. For some reason they were nicknamed memory holes. When one knew that any document was due for destruction, or even when one saw a scrap of waste paper lying about, it was an automatic action to lift the flap of the nearest memory hole and drop it in, whereupon it would be whirled away on a current of warm air to the enormous furnaces which were hidden somewhere in the recesses of the building.

As soon as Winston had dealt with each of the messages, he clipped his speakwritten corrections to the appropriate copy of The Times and pushed them into the pneumatic tube. Then, with a movement which was as nearly as possible unconscious, he crumpled up the original message and any notes that he himself had made, and dropped them into the memory hole to be devoured by the flames.

What happened in the unseen labyrinth to which the tubes led, he did not know in detail, but he did know in general terms. As soon as all the corrections which happened to be necessary in any particular number of The Times had been assembled and collated, that number would be reprinted, the original copy destroyed, and the corrected copy placed on the files in its stead.

In the cubicle next to him the little woman with sandy hair toiled day in day out, simply at tracking down and deleting from the Press the names of people who had been vaporized and were therefore considered never to have existed. And this hall, with its fifty workers or thereabouts, was only one-sub-section, a single cell, as it were, in the huge complexity of the Records Department. Beyond, above, below, were other swarms of workers engaged in an unimaginable multitude of jobs.

There were huge printing-shops and their sub editors, their typography experts, and their elaborately equipped studios for the faking of photographs. There was the tele-programmes section with its engineers, its producers and its teams of actors specially chosen for their skill in imitating voices; clerks whose job was simply to draw up lists of books and periodicals which were due for recall; vast repositories where the corrected documents were stored; and the hidden furnaces where the original copies were destroyed.

And somewhere or other, quite anonymous, there were the directing brains who co-ordinated the whole effort and laid down the lines of policy which made it necessary that this fragment of the past should be preserved, that one falsified, and the other rubbed out of existence.

 
 

228 posted on 11/22/2010 5:26:31 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going.)
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To: CottonBall
They're using the $11000 fine instead of guns to intimidate.

How many GUNS can be bought for $11K?

229 posted on 11/22/2010 5:27:55 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going.)
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To: FTJM
So.....a Muslim bomber tries to blow up a plane with explosives in his underwear.

And another Muslim bomber tries to blow up a plane with explosives in his shoes.

And....ELEVEN months after ignoring the advice of the Muslim underwear bomber's father, the TSA institutes body scanners and pat-downs just before the busiest travel day of the year?

230 posted on 11/22/2010 5:32:00 AM PST by N. Theknow (Kennedys: Can't skipper a boat, Can't drive, Can't ski, Can't fly. But they KNOW what's best!)
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To: GOPJ

There ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man’s hand.


231 posted on 11/22/2010 5:35:16 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going.)
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To: GOPJ
For the first time in our country's history - we know it's possible.

FIRST time?

SIGH... Yet another that knows NOT our history.


"Well intentioned..."

http://www.nrcprograms.org/site/PageServer?pagename=nrf_hist_boardingschools

232 posted on 11/22/2010 5:39:45 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going.)
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To: KoRn

If I can’t drive there, I won’t go...

Amen. Been that way since 9-11. It was smoke and mirrors then, and has gotten worse, which we all knew, those of us who knew. If they don’t get rid of PC, and if they don’t start Israeli type security, TSA and your government are going to kill the airlines.

Of course if TSA succeeds, they will grope themselves right out of a job. Don’t see that happening, so their is hope and change to look forward to.


233 posted on 11/22/2010 5:41:59 AM PST by wita
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To: 1000 silverlings
Are we men or mice?
 
 
One evening as the sun went down and the jungle fire was burning
Down the track came a hobo hiking and he said boys I'm not turning
I'm headin’ for a land that's far away beside the crystal fountains
So come with me we'll go and see the Big Rock Candy Mountains

In the Big Rock Candy Mountains there's a land that's fair and bright
Where the handouts grow on bushes and you sleep out every night
Where the boxcars are all empty and the sun shines every day
On the birds and the bees and the cigarette trees
Where the lemonade springs where the bluebird sings
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains

In the Big Rock Candy Mountains all the cops have wooden legs
And the bulldogs all have rubber teeth and the hens lay soft boiled eggs
The farmer's trees are full of fruit and the barns are full of hay
Oh, I'm bound to go where there ain't no snow
Where the rain don't fall and the wind don't blow
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains

In the Big Rock Candy Mountains you never change your socks
And the little streams of alcohol come a-trickling down the rocks
The brakemen have to tip their hats and the railroad bulls are blind
There's a lake of stew and of whiskey too
You can paddle all around 'em in a big canoe
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains

In the Big Rock Candy Mountains the jails are made of tin
And you can walk right out again as soon as you are in
There ain't no short handled shovels, no axes saws or picks
I'm a goin’ to stay where you sleep all day
Where they hung the jerk that invented work
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains

I'll see you all this coming fall in the Big Rock Candy Mountains"



234 posted on 11/22/2010 5:49:19 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going.)
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To: patriot08
I remember the ‘unlawful search’ thing.

But...

Are these NOT 'lawful' searches?

235 posted on 11/22/2010 5:52:19 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going.)
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To: CincyRichieRich
No media coverage...too busy carrying Obama’s piss in buckets.

"It's good to be King!"

236 posted on 11/22/2010 5:53:26 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going.)
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To: Smokin' Joe

GMTA


237 posted on 11/22/2010 5:54:48 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going.)
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To: Elsie

Ha ha ha - I feel you. lol.


238 posted on 11/22/2010 6:00:24 AM PST by GlockThe Vote (I'm not Anti-Obama - I'm Pro-America)
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To: Sun

They are. Somewhere in his cave, or where else he is,Bin Laudin is wetting himself because he can’t control his laughter.

The traitors to America did themselves proud on November 4, 2008.


239 posted on 11/22/2010 6:11:55 AM PST by sport
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist; Willie Green

Yep! From the camps....er housing projects to the staging areas.... depots by bus and from the staging areas....er depots by box car to the extermination camps. Once in the box car there is no need to be subtle with the sheep.

Willie can be the engineer driving the locomotive.


240 posted on 11/22/2010 6:18:40 AM PST by sport
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