Posted on 06/26/2011 3:26:20 PM PDT by Zakeet
An elderly woman in the late-stages of leukemia was forced to undergo 45 minutes of additional screenings last Saturday when she tried to board a flight out of Northwest Florida Regional Airport, her daughter told FoxNews.com
Lena Reppert, 95, was to say her final goodbyes to her daughter before she made what would most likely be her last flight to her native Michigan. After eight years of battling leukemia, doctors say she doesn’t have much time to live.
“She said she wanted to be closer to her grave,” Jean Weber, her daughter, told FoxNews.com. “I knew it would probably be the last time I ever see her.
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After 45 minutes, the mother and daughter were given two options: either don't fly, or lose the Depend. The women chose the latter.
“I ran with her to the bathroom and stripped her down,” Weber recalled. “I got back to the line and just started bawling.”
Weber said the emotional toll was too much. From perhaps seeing her mother for what could be the last time, to having to see her mother go through all the security measures, “I just cried and said, ‘Please can you let her through, she’s just so sick,” she said.
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The TSA attempted to take Joe Foss’s Medal of Honor because it has pinty edges. They are senseless.
TSA execs are working on a system requiring all passengers travel naked. Say it isn’t so.
Before or after they require every passenger to drink a laxative and then crap in a clear glass bowl?
What an ugly, oppressive government we have. Our Founding Fathers would be so ashamed that the nation born of their courage has deteriorated into a flock of sheep that will stand with their teeth in their mouths and meekly watch their wives and little daughters sexually assaulted by TSA perverts and their mothers and grandmothers forced into shameful situations such as this 95 year-old terminally ill cancer patient endured.
Remember every one of these pitiful stories when that snake Obama and his statist cohorts bring up the wonderful things Big Government is doing for you as they connive to seize four more years of control and misery for Americans.
Were I a terrorist, I would hide a bomb inside the body. None of it would be hanging on the outside inside someone’s diapers. Induction coupling would provide the detonation pulse to set off the nitroglycerin implants.
Laz, I'll second that.
“An anus is “a good place to hide a bomb.” Let’s begin checking everyone there. “
You’re talking to me as though I support this required screening.
I don’t.
“a “no-search” airline” with profiling”
That’s what I’d pick to fly!
A while back, my endo gave me a letter to carry with what was then a new diabetes drug, Byetta. Turns out she had had patients who were made to SWALLOW the drug in order to show it wasn’t some kind of poison. Byetta comes in a pen delivery system, but you have to put a needle cap on it to use it. These folks had to put on the needle and squirt Byetta into their mouths to show it wasn’t poison.
I have to fly sometimes, but I hate every minute of it, especially going through TSA in big airports (my little airport here isn’t too bad).
You don't think that the satanic group that run this country haven't thought of that & are willing to incorporate it at the right time?
The tsa would just swicth to the train stationd, bus stations, and set up check points like the weigh stations on the interstates.
A lot of them are using the Boeing 717 (MD 80) - American uses them.
I feel that there will be a rumbling of discontent coming.
I wish. At one point in time, I felt that way also. I no longer do.
Silly question. After of course.
This is an outrage! What happened to the 4th Amendment?
We cannot let this insanity continue!
We need to implement the airline security tactics used by Israel!
>>Here’s another opportunity for you to root for the TSA and make more snotty comments about U.S. travelers.<<
OR
I can abide by FR rules by not carrying arguments from thread to thread;
OR
I can demand you show where I have “rooted” for TSA;
OR
I can point out (as I have) that refusing to fly just because one doesn’t agree with the rules (whether you like them or not) is just childish.
You leave me so many options that today I feel I am a rich man indeed.
You entreasure me and for that I thank you.
I knew we could count on you. 4th amendment be damned. Humiliation and degradation of the elderly, frail, and terminally ill is the way to go.
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