Posted on 04/12/2011 6:13:28 AM PDT by keep your powder dry
Where the picture of the muslim child dressed up in terrorist equipment? I know it was posted somewhere!
Agree 100% and that is why see 6 years olds kids getting pat downs.
When has that happened? When you go down that road, then you can make up any scanrio you want....
Use your brain and profile.
FedGov’t can get real stupid, brain-of-a-gnat stupid, and what happened in New Orleans serves to prove it.
This story has gone viral, and the major news has now got ahold of it....
Blogdad Bob is getting his butt kicked at the tsa forum,
A great majority of the comments even at the main news websites are against what the tsa did to that little girl...
Chaffetz is ripping the tsa etc. a new one...
Hopefully more states join the six(what is it now, seven?) that have introduced legislation criminalizing the patdowns.
And We the People can assert our power, keep the pressure on.
Parents of 6-Year-Old Girl Pat Down at Airport Want Procedures Changed
Selena and Todd Drexel Say They’re ‘Struggling to Explain’ Screening to Daughter
BY ANDREW SPRINGER
April 13, 2011
The family of the 6-year-old girl who received a pat down at airport security in New Orleans said today there needs to be a different screening process for children.
“We struggle to teach our kids to protect themselves, to say ‘no, it’s not ok to touch me in this way in this area,” the girl’s mother, Selena Drexel, said. “Yet here we are saying it’s ok for these people.” If we don’t find other ways we’re making them more vulnerable, she said.
Drexel and her husband, Dr. Todd Drexel, of Bowling Green, Ky., appeared this morning in an exclusive interview with “Good Morning America.”
A video of the couple’s daughter going through the screening went viral on the Internet, getting thousands of views on sites like YouTube. It shows a TSA agent rubbing the young girl’s inner thighs and running her fingers inside the top of the girl’s blue jeans.
The Drexels said they stood powerless, watching as their daughter was patted down.
“I did ask for alternatives, I asked for her to be rescanned,” Selena Drexel said. “They just refused and said they were going to do what they were going to do.”
Selena Drexel said she could only speculate as to why the 6-year-old was selected for the pat down. She said that the TSA supervisor made it clear “non-verbally” that there would be trouble if she caused a fuss.
The girl’s father said that while his daughter was polite and respectful during the screening, she broke down into tears afterwards.
Excerpt:
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/parents-year-girl-pat-airport-procedures-changed/story?id=13363740
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