Posted on 02/11/2014 4:00:17 PM PST by matt04
The Transport Security Administration has been criticized for humiliating a cancer survivor at a security checkpoint for wearing an incontinence pad. The man's wife has told that he suffers from OAB (overactive bladder) after a battle with prostate cancer and wears adult diapers for his condition. At an airport security checkpoint recently, he was forced to explain his situation multiple times to TSA officers, one of whom announced that he was wearing a diaper for the whole security line to hear, and then underwent an embarrassing back-room search.
The man's wife, writing anonymously, described her husband's ordeal on the forum CafeMom. She writes that her husband, after waiting for a lengthy time in the security line at an unnamed airport, had had a 'bladder spasm' and had wet the incontinence pad.
When he went through security, he was asked if he was carrying any liquids in his clothing. He explained his condition to the female TSA officer, who called over her male boss and tried to explain the situation to him. 'The problem was he did not understand what an "incontinence product" was when she told him,' writes the man's wife.
'Myself, [my husband], and the female TSA employee tried explaining a few times before the woman finally just shouted "HE IS WEARING A DIAPER" which caused pretty much everyone to turn and stare at us.'
Then, she adds, the TSA officer 'snickered.'
To add to the couple's humiliation, the TSA agents told them their scanner was unable to detect what was beneath the man's clothing and forced him to take off the diaper so that they could inspect the 'suspicious padding,' writes the man's wife.
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I agree. I wasn’t a fan of the creation of the TSA. It wasn’t necessary. It was an overreaction. The 9/11 terrorists carried perfectly legal box cutters when they went through security. There was no security failure to justify the creation of a whole new government agency.
But the situation after 9/11 was what it was. I traveled extensively before and after that. I never once had an encounter with a TSA agent that wasn’t completely professional. The ONLY difficulties I saw where other passengers that copped a ‘tude... And slipped into @hole mode and made some sort of scene at the TSA station.
>>You approve of the government ditching the Constitution to “protect” you.<<
As do you. Or did you just ignore the unconstitutional “infraction” you allow? Every day you drive you undermine the Constitution.
>>What more is there to say?<<
Not much. You quivering little gophers can stay in your burrows. We who challenge the TSA constantly (we removed the nakedometers and other devices) make the changes. Your kind with little lives and little worlds just let the government do what it wants.
>>May the TSA be with you. At all times. Everywhere.<<
The TSA is a necessary evil. I and my travel brethren are shaping it. We don’t just quiver in our burrows.
There is no Constitutional right to flying just as there is no Constitutional right to driving (you and your ilk gave that away years ago).
May the State Police, local Police, Sheriffs and Highway Patrol be with you always.
You should just stop driving and stay quivering in your house.
I am going to Ireland soon — see you there! Oh wait, I won’t — you will be under your bed scared of the bad TSA man.
>>I agree. I wasn’t a fan of the creation of the TSA. It wasn’t necessary. It was an overreaction. <<
Yes. When they changed to the white tunics it was like they thought they were cops.
But by and large it is a small blip in my travel radar.
It is the inconsistencies that piss me off more than the professionalism. It is like they need constant training. Sometimes by me (always kindly delivered with a smile).
“There is no Constitutional right to flying ...”
US Code 40103
“A citizen of the United States as a public right of transit through navigable airspace.”
Continued: I don’t know where the idea that purchasing a ticket and flying is a privilege.It is the right of American citizens as stated in US Code 40103.
Well good for you, Mr. Special. The hoi polloi, the ones that "slow the lines up terribly," don't have that privilege.
>>the ones that “slow the lines up terribly,” don’t have that privilege.<<
That is the point — THEY DO. The TSA has been giving away Pre Check like Halloween candy in the last year or so.
A few well-placed signs would make a huge difference.
Also, I paid for my credentials and had to do an in-person interview. I have the right to be pissed of that people who did neither are using and slowing down the line.
>>US Code 40103
“A citizen of the United States as a public right of transit through navigable airspace.”<<
The US Code is NOT part of the USC, per se. But if you want to quote the US Code, quote the WHOLE thing. Quotemining is frowned upon in most respectable boards.
Part 2 of that code says:
“2) A citizen of the United States has a public right of transit through the navigable airspace. To further that right, the Secretary of Transportation shall consult with the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board established under section 502 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (29 U.S.C. 792) before prescribing a regulation or issuing an order or procedure that will have a significant impact on the accessibility of commercial airports or commercial air transportation for handicapped individuals.”
That means the Seceretary can, with consultation, put whatever he thinks is appropriate but can’t do so unilaterally (The TSA was a group effort).
The USC is still silent on the matter of flying.
Good grief, you embrace tyranny as long as it doesn’t bother you too much. What bothers you are people who resist, not those who oppress.
History is littered with governments that formed armies and agencies for the purpose of outward defense, only to have them turned inward to suppress the people.
TSA is part of a larger police state mosaic. America is fast becoming another failed republic and you obviously don’t give a rip.
>>Good grief, you embrace tyranny as long as it doesn’t bother you too much. What bothers you are people who resist, not those who oppress.<<
Staying at home cringing under your bed isn’t “resisting.” FACING the Police State and calling them out on their errors is the right thing. We already got rid of the nakedometers. We travelers did. Not the “I am too afraid of the TSA to fly” people.
What are YOU doing to oppose and shape the TSA?
>>TSA is part of a larger police state mosaic.<<
You embrace that mosaic every time you drive and subsidize it every time you get a ticket.
>>America is fast becoming another failed republic and you obviously don’t give a rip.<<
Apparently neither do you. Or do you just walk>
I also have the right to contract for services that are not illegal. Government has no legitimate power to restrict my right to contract with an airline or bus service or cab company.
In case you haven't noticed, the police state considers itself entitled to regulate, run or destroy any institution it sees fit. Banking, transportation, energy, education, manufacturing all exist at the pleasure of Obama. Instead of celebrating and joining, you should resist.
So what is your solution? Go in, Matrix like, and have a shoot out?
That's what they're famous for.
My last flight about a year ago....They scanned my purse and pulled me out of the line and explained to me that there was something suspicious in there. I watched the guy pull my e-cig tips out. I laughed and said......millions and millions of passengers and you guys have never seen an e-cig filter tip? He just handed me my purse and nodded for me to go.
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>>Going to Ireland to have an abortion?<<
Wow.
Most.
Vapid.
Response.
Ever.
>> Instead of celebrating and joining, you should resist.<<
I don’t know where you got “celebrate.” I don’t care for the TSA but there they are. I “fight” them the best way I can — through engagement not craven hiding under the bed (”I won’t fly b/c of the meanie TSA”) as some here have stated.
I live in Dallas and commute to/from Toronto weekly. Last year I worked in Washington DC. My work has taken me to NYC, Chicago, Seattle, Denver and Miami just in the last 6 months.
You are so smart — tell me what I should do to avoid the TSA. Also note my comments about the TSA have been denotative as I shared my direct observations. Please share yours while you are telling us your solution.
Pinging all y’all to Post 34 — now THAT is how to win an argument!
I guess that land of my ancestors will just have to not enjoy my visit due to some dude’s misinformed concept of what a place is “famous” for.
I was right, wasn’t I!!!
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