Posted on 06/26/2011 3:26:20 PM PDT by Zakeet
An elderly woman in the late-stages of leukemia was forced to undergo 45 minutes of additional screenings last Saturday when she tried to board a flight out of Northwest Florida Regional Airport, her daughter told FoxNews.com
Lena Reppert, 95, was to say her final goodbyes to her daughter before she made what would most likely be her last flight to her native Michigan. After eight years of battling leukemia, doctors say she doesn’t have much time to live.
“She said she wanted to be closer to her grave,” Jean Weber, her daughter, told FoxNews.com. “I knew it would probably be the last time I ever see her.
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After 45 minutes, the mother and daughter were given two options: either don't fly, or lose the Depend. The women chose the latter.
“I ran with her to the bathroom and stripped her down,” Weber recalled. “I got back to the line and just started bawling.”
Weber said the emotional toll was too much. From perhaps seeing her mother for what could be the last time, to having to see her mother go through all the security measures, “I just cried and said, ‘Please can you let her through, she’s just so sick,” she said.
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I prefer criminal.
“and that person is forced to remove their adult diaper, that, my friend, is unreasonable search in violation of a Constitutional right. “
Agreed, although we have the option not to fly.
Thus my suggestion that we have ‘search’ and ‘search free’ airlines.
Some may prefer to be searched for the added security. Not me however.
My husband just asked me if I wanted to take a trip...and I said, “Not if we have to fly.” I have an implanted device that delivers anti-spasticity med for my MS. I can’t imagine what kind of treatment I’d get when they see that hockey puck sized metal implant in my abdomen. Pat down, to say the least...and I have a card to hand them to explain the device...but after all these stories, I don’t really think the card will make much difference.
Someone needs to educate the TSA on medical conditions and devices. Remember the guy with the urostomy (they spilled his bag all over him.) The tales of searching leg braces, and wheelchairs, etc. They’re going overboard on the folks who are the “least” likely to be terrorist. Have any of the terrorists masqueraded as a person with a medical condition...don’t think so!
Oddly enough, the solution is for there to be full time 24/7 video on every security line and in on every 'private patdown.' Video needs to be easily accessible to the public for whatever reason including merely reviewing the tapes for abuse. The TSA works for us and they are not the CIA or FBI.
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“You are wrong in thinking they are just stupid. They ENJOY their sadism. They know their will never be punished, in this life, and they are firm in their conviction that there is no other.”
100% correct.
#2 is correct, imho. DHS is the agency that is responsible for serving the role of internal security forces. TSA is the division on the front-line of teaching americans how to behave when dealing with fedgov, essentially, they can do anything they want, they are virtually unaccountable, and you have no rights.
I often wonder what kinds of lists and profiles on law-abiding citizens DHS has compiled. The main utility of such lists is if there is a real opportunity to enact a pogrom in the future.
Was anyone else on that plane wearing Depends? So is it now illegal to wear Depends, Diapers, pads or tampons on an airplane? Good reason not to fly. I don’t want to imagine how germy those those seats would be. What happened to common sense? Doesn’t the TSA know why people wear Depends? Totally illogical. . .
You’re right, it’s mostly #2. The scary thing about the TSA is there is no one in Congress against it, showing once again, there is basically one party; the Government Party. Right now, it’s all a gentle fascism, but it won’t stay that way. All government agencies grow, and achieve more and more power.
Someone here said bureaucracies without soul exist for their own ends. Well, that’s all bureaucracies. Have you ever seen a bureaucracy with soul or feelings? Sooner or later, the TSA is going to become something more sinister. Once they start applying their powers to the highways, they’ll be able to restrict one of our most basic freedoms; the freedom of movement.
Good grief...so the 4th only applies in your house?
The 4th is negated once you're in public or elect to take advantage of a public (which you pay for ) service?
Were I a terrorist....Well, first of all...you’d probably be a Muslim..........
Here’s another opportunity for you to root for the TSA and make more snotty comments about U.S. travelers.
Theoretically, yes. Practically speaking, not so much.
You want to get from Los Angeles to Boston and back. Are you really going to drive more than 6,000 miles?
Thus my suggestion that we have ‘search’ and ‘search free’ airlines.
It's a good suggestion. Personally, I'd prefer "security by profiling" airlines, but that's not gonna happen.
That being the case, I'd fly the search-free airline just to avoid the search.
“Agreed, although we have the option not to fly.
Good grief...so the 4th only applies in your house?
The 4th is negated once you’re in public or elect to take advantage of a public (which you pay for ) service? “
No, I am arguing for a freedom-based solution.
The airlines are privately owned, right?
So let them offer various levels of security/screening.
Then let the consumer choose the best level for himself.
I prefer this to government mandated screening procedures that I don’t think most airlines or most passengers want.
Or, you want to travel to Britain. Are you going to spend weeks on a boat? Or are you first going to drive to Canada or Mexico, and then take a plane from there?
So theoretically, there’s an option. Practically speaking, for almost all of us, there isn’t.
“Theoretically, yes. Practically speaking, not so much. “
Agreed, I think the gov’t has overstepped its bounds.
I mean they could search everyone on the sidewalk and could say well, if you don’t like it, you don’t have to walk.
Obviously we have a right to transport ourselves, it is supposed to be a free country.
Except, of course, for not going at all - which comes with a cost, either personal, or financial, or both.
“Or, you want to travel to Britain. Are you going to spend weeks on a boat? Or are you first going to drive to Canada or Mexico, and then take a plane from there?”
I agree, I believe the government has gone too far.
They want to be armed and I’m sure our GOP reps in Washington will vote for it when it comes up. On the other hand it will be a great supply of free weapons.
“The nation definitely needs a no fly day to help protest egregious infringement on human dignity such as this elderly lady suffered.”
The environmentalists would love you.
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