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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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To: Deagle
Dont worry. Now that 0bama has declared the War on Terror over Im sure both the TSA and Homeland Security will be abolished. < /sarcasm>
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posted on
04/25/2012 4:07:12 AM PDT
by
R. Scott
(Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink)
To: Impy
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.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Yeah! Just like there are a “few’ bad teachers giving the government schools a bad rap. Soon we will here the same excuses about Obamacare.
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posted on
04/25/2012 4:11:40 AM PDT
by
wintertime
(Reforming a government K-12 school is like reforming an abortion center.)
To: AnTiw1
I went through this crap twice. It was enough. Havent flown since.
I had to go on several trips since the TSA started their crap, and have to fly in the near future. I dread the security every time.
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posted on
04/25/2012 5:12:04 AM PDT
by
Arrowhead1952
(Dear God, thanks for the rain, but please let it rain more in Texas. Amen.)
To: Clintonfatigued
What kind of people does the government employ? They do this to a girl whos barely a toddler. Would they have done this if she were an adult illegal alien? Nothing at all.
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posted on
04/25/2012 5:15:40 AM PDT
by
metmom
( For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
To: Impy
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. Sure, just a few.......
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posted on
04/25/2012 5:16:49 AM PDT
by
metmom
( For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
To: Clintonfatigued; ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas; DoughtyOne; calcowgirl; Gilbo_3; Impy; ...
Obama TSA profile of a terrorist:
Back when Bush was POTUS I used to complain regularly about TSA wasting money (big money) by treating us all like terrorists and almost everyone I talked to said they were happy it was keeping them 'safe'. It takes an Obama for Republicans to see the light.
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posted on
04/25/2012 5:23:28 AM PDT
by
sickoflibs
(Romney is a liberal. Just watch him closely.)
To: sickoflibs
The Patriot Act, and TSA, the need to protect us from us, was one of Bush’s biggest failures.
I think on Day 1 when Obama was first learning about his Executive powers he thought to himself, “Damn! I knew that president had far reaching powers, I didn’t know that Bush made it this easy for me.”
And then he set to working on Obamacare the very next morning. :)
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posted on
04/25/2012 5:45:23 AM PDT
by
Pan_Yans Wife
("For the sake of our party we must stand united, whoever our nominee is."-Sarah Palin)
To: Deagle
The Republicans brought us the TSA.
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posted on
04/25/2012 6:13:52 AM PDT
by
starlifter
(Pullum sapit)
To: sickoflibs
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posted on
04/25/2012 6:16:41 AM PDT
by
X-spurt
(Its time for ON YOUR FEET or on your knees)
To: Deagle
I refuse to travel by plane until things change!I''m with you! I will not get on a plane either. No need to.
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posted on
04/25/2012 6:18:32 AM PDT
by
2nd amendment mama
( www.2asisters.org | Self defense is a basic human right!)
To: Deagle
I just cant believe that the Republicans have not yet tried to demolish the TSA! What are they waiting for?They are afraid. Their greatest fear is that a terrorist attack happen after they dismantle TSA. They are as afraid of this possibility as they are of reforming entitlement programs. This is why the TSA will be with us forever.
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posted on
04/25/2012 6:53:21 AM PDT
by
Paine in the Neck
(Romney's judicial appointments were more radical than Obama's)
To: sickoflibs
compassionate conservatism and the 'security' to go with it...watch how many posts this thread gets telling us that ABBB is 'better' than bambam himself...
all this crap was instituted by "R"epublicans...
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posted on
04/25/2012 7:46:52 AM PDT
by
Gilbo_3
(Gov is not reason; not eloquent; its force.Like fire,a dangerous servant & master. George Washington)
To: Clintonfatigued; Impy; All
To: Paine in the Neck
Let us carry our privately owned firearms on airplanes and none of this would be an issue.
Shoe bomber? Underwear bomber? Box cutters? Erratic Muslim clerics causing a scene?
No trials for them. Just burials at the hands of their intended victims.
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posted on
04/25/2012 7:57:36 AM PDT
by
Dead Corpse
(Steampunk- Yesterday's Tomorrow, Today)
To: sickoflibs
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posted on
04/25/2012 8:26:32 AM PDT
by
stephenjohnbanker
(God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
To: Gilbo_3; ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas; stephenjohnbanker; DoughtyOne; Impy
RE :”
compassionate conservatism and the ‘security’ to go with it...watch how many posts this thread gets telling us that ABBB is ‘better’ than bambam himself...
all this crap was instituted by “R”epublicans...”
GWB kept us safe.
‘Flags waving’ Da-Da-Da , America-America.
But now it's all different, Obama does it because he hates us. It's like TARP :)
I dont like those scanners and I definitely dont like being separated visually from my ID, especially when they wont let me near the gate without my ID.
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posted on
04/25/2012 10:55:56 AM PDT
by
sickoflibs
(Romney is a liberal. Just watch him closely.)
To: Clintonfatigued
It used to be, when one of these guys screwed up, you didn’t get meat in your hamburger, there was something sinister in the secret sauce, or there was an extra dollar charged to your credit card.
Now they’re there to F up our wives and our children.
This is what Freedom looks like? Really?
This is what Land of the Free and Home of the Brave means to these people?
Somewhere along the way, we let someone with terminal dyslexia interpret the U. S. Constitution. Hey folks, I want a second opinion!
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posted on
04/25/2012 11:04:13 AM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Okay, now lets see if the RNC, Rove, and Card can get him elected without their core base. Game on!)
To: sickoflibs
I haven’t agreed with this from day one either.
At one point I went so far as to say I would voluntarily board a doomed flight rather than have our populace have to put up with this s—t.
I meant it too.
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posted on
04/25/2012 11:15:29 AM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Okay, now lets see if the RNC, Rove, and Card can get him elected without their core base. Game on!)
To: Clintonfatigued
One of the things that bothered me the most about the airport security, was them singling out my wife on the last two flights we took together.
I was forced to walk ahead while they gave her ‘extra attention’. I was raised to respect my wife, and be there to protect her if need be. Now I’m told ‘f—k you’, go on your way while we do as we please to her, or we’ll tackle you and basically F you up.
Say what? Never again.
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posted on
04/25/2012 11:21:40 AM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Okay, now lets see if the RNC, Rove, and Card can get him elected without their core base. Game on!)
To: sickoflibs
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posted on
04/25/2012 11:29:37 AM PDT
by
stephenjohnbanker
(God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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