This is my take.
It is JUST as invasive .....more so as far as I’m concerned.....for this dad to post pictures of his little girl getting her pat down
How’s the pay over at TSA?
If he hadn’t posted the video we’d never know how evil this organization is.
PS I have an 11 yr old granddaughter, and I would not want her to receive an invasive pat down...( she is very modest)
But I would not post her picture either!!!!!
Why would you say that? It is his daughter getting groped; she doesn’t belong to the “village” (yet). Why should he just bury his head in the sand?
Perhaps it is, but let us increase the stakes a little.
Let us assume a 10 year old was being raped, outright, by an FBI agent while others held the father by arm and leg, physically.
And a bystander who had guns drawn on him, photographed the assault.
I would agree that the photos are invasive, but the invasion of the rape is moreso... and evidence needs to be taken and preserved. Would you not agree?
Now we can decrease the stakes again, and come back to the particulars of this case.
The invasion of photography is still less than the invasion of the probing finger. I know you, Gwen, so I know you will see what I (and perhaps a few others, less elegantly) rightfully assert.
Sorry, that's the most ridiculous statement I've read in awhile. He needed to show proof. If he doesn't, nobody will believe him. Remember, a picture is worth a thousand words.
He should have sought assistance in film editing to place a blur on her face so that she would be anonymous. The film shot is valuable as documentary proof that procedures and profiling must change.
OTOH, if the little girl was wearing a Burka or a Muslim veil .....
Guen, I agree—it would have been better not to show his daughter’s face.
It is the pat down that needs to be documented—not the face of the little girl it happened to.
If it was humiliating to her the first, it will be so with every playing of the video.
Maybe the Dad was eager to get it out there to show the excesses of the TSA, and that is understandable.