Posted on 05/11/2011 8:28:19 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner
The Rev. Jacob Jester wasn’t trying to start anything.
But when he saw security screeners at Kansas City International Airport patting down a baby — a baby — he took a picture. And then he shared that picture on Twitter.
It went viral, and voila: Jester’s snapshot is the flashpoint of the day in the debate over who should be considered a threat to the flying public.
Not what he intended, Jester said Tuesday, after the image had been picked up by The Drudge Report and the Daily Mail in London, among others, and viewed nearly 300,000 times.
“I thought it was a curious situation,” said Jester, a pastor at a youth ministry in Independence. “I have a son about the same age — 8 months old — and I thought that I would not want that to happen to my own child.”
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The baby stroller, for some reason, did set off the explosives alarm. I would like to know why, so they can adjust the machine accordingly.
And Islamic jackasses would rig their baby up with a bomb instantly, if they thought it would kill some infidels. Their baby would be whisked up to paradise to sit beside Allah, the pedophile, and for some reason, this creepy mental image pleases them.
A little bit of profiling would have avoided this excercise though.
I have lost two cans of shaving cream, three tubes of toothpaste, three corkscrews and two pairs of nailclippers.
Feel safe yet? Government is the problem.
The baby must have been leaking classified materials.
I hope he whizzed all over the agent.
LMAO Good One!
Teaching them young that they have no rights. Years from now this kid won’t know it isn’t okay.
They blow up so fast.
Funny, the government has become so controlling, obese and corrupt, it took two government agents to search the baby...
“I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.”...............
The terrorist gangs win!
Israel uses profiling.
When asked what the difference was between El AL security and US air security, an Israeli security official said, “Americans look for weapons. WE look for terrorists.”............
I’m just surprised it wasn’t non-white screeners! They’re usually the ones gleefully patting down and molesting any race but their own. In SF, it’s the Asian screeners, in Oakland, black, etc. I never see anyone but white victims, elderly and young or cute girls, pulled aside.
But 99% of Americans are so conditioned to statism that freedom to travel sounds scary.
The “terrorists” won, and they’re in our own government.
Just like in that movie “V for Vendetta.”
Exactly right. BTTT.
I wonder if TSA runs their fingers through a dripping soiled diaper?
Bras and Panties are game.
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