95-year-old Leukemia Patient Story Shows What The "S" in TSA Stands For.

Boston Herald ^ | June 28, 2011 | Michael Graham

[suspects]

Now we know what the “S” in TSA stands for. All the (ahem) “stuff” they can’t handle.

You’ve heard about the 95-year-old, wheelchair-bound leukemia patient who had her adult diaper searched by the TSA. She required additional screening because her diaper had — according to media reports — something “wet” in it.

You’ll be stunned to learn it wasn’t nitroglycerin.

According to her daughter, the woman was flying from Florida to Michigan to move into an assisted living facility. “It’s something I couldn’t imagine happening on American soil,” Jean Weber told the Panama City News-Herald. “Here is my mother, 95 years old, 105 pounds, barely able to stand, and then this.”

As bad as that sounds, the TSA’s response was worse: They would do it again.

“We have reviewed the circumstances involving this screening and determined that our officers acted professionally and according to proper procedure.”

The proper procedure for what — making TSA employees look like buffoons? Because it certainly didn’t make anyone more secure. Neither did taking a plastic toy from a mentally-handicapped man flying to Disney; or searching the diaper of an 18-month-old; or invading the nether regions of a crying 6-year-old girl.

All these things have happened in recent months, and every time Americans think “This is as bad as the TSA can get.”

Then it gets worse.

And for what? For people serious about security, the entire TSA is a joke. “The whole system is designed to catch stupid terrorists,” says security expert Bruce Schneier. Trying to keep weapons or explosives off planes by embarrassing grannies or terrorizing toddlers is a waste of time, and the TSA knows it.

Former TSA head Kip Hawley admitted in 2008 that “all they [terrorists] have to do is...

[CodeToad]

While we are literally being strip searched at the front door many illegal aliens and foreigners are working at the back door. No security at all. This is nothing more than the TSA looking to build an empire

[GBA]

Hopefully, this is the case that clarifies the government's war on American citizens and what's left of our Constitution.

There is no other explanation for what they are doing.

None of this has a damn thing to do with safety or sanity.

We are being dismantled and their 'war on terror' is a convenient opportunity to show us that we are powerless against those we elect.

[little jeremiah]

And for what? For people serious about security, the entire TSA is a joke. “The whole system is designed to catch stupid terrorists,” says security expert Bruce Schneier. Trying to keep weapons or explosives off planes by embarrassing grannies or terrorizing toddlers is a waste of time, and the TSA knows it.

Oh, it's not a joke. It's doing exactly what it was designed to do. To wit: Terrorize innocent Americans, soften us up for more indignities and loss of freedoms, get lists of names of people who don't like the conditioning, and prepare us for blind submission to re-education camps/gulags. And for an added possible bonus, someone gets violent after the molesting and then whammo - ramp up the loss of freedoms even more!

[blastdad51]

Exactly!!!! the airplane ride was the high point of traveling.