I can not believe the father stood there and watched
Me neither, RnMom. Parents are their child's LAST LINE OF DEFENSE. This is sick stuff.
What would you have him do? We Americans are new to this stuff. Once threatened with a fine we get a deer in the headlights look and back off. Maybe we should just start carrying threats of lawsuits from our lawyers when we fly...or one huge, slapping class action law suit would suffice.
You think this is bad...wait 'til the TSA unionizes.
Agree wholeheartedly. And this attitude is what is a big part of the problem. Until the inconvenience of changing one's travel plans is outweighed by the humiliation of the government's personal and physical assault, many people seem willing to tolerate it even if they hate it.
Case in point: Sean Hannity has been very outspoken about the assaults on innocent Americans at the hands of TSA gropers but when asked by a caller this week if he was going to change his Thanksgiving travel plans because of it he replied "if it's a choice between freezing my butt off in New York instead of going to Florida" he was going to tolerate the actions of the TSA agents. So much for principle. "Great American"?, I think more of an "American of Convenience."