Posted on 06/27/2011 7:38:06 PM PDT by Nachum
(CNN) -- The Transportation Security Administration has denied that its agents required a 95-year-old woman to remove her adult diaper last week before allowing her to pass a screening checkpoint at Northwest Florida Regional Airport.
"While every person and item must be screened before entering the secure boarding area, TSA works with passengers to resolve security alarms in a respectful and sensitive manner," the agency said Sunday night in a statement. "We have reviewed the circumstances involving this screening and determined that our officers acted professionally, according to proper procedure and did not require this passenger to remove an adult diaper."
A response released earlier Sunday by the TSA said that the agency had reviewed the circumstances "and determined that our officers acted professionally and according to proper procedure."
The woman's daughter, Jean Weber, told CNN on Monday that the TSA agents acted professionally and never ordered the removal of her mother's diaper. However, Weber said the agents made it clear that her mother could not board the plane unless they were able to inspect the diaper.
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“Then you have taken the issue from one of mass protest to a conspiracy to commit a crime. Much worse.”
How’s that? I suggested nothing... What crime?
Not to be gross, but this whole TSA thing is gross
Do they make women who are menstruating remove their pads?
And if they don't...why not?
Why make an example of a 95 yr old woman to take off an adult diaper when 25% of the female population going through those lines most likely have the same type of product in the same area?
I’m not saying you were serious. But others might think it was. That’s all.
Oh yeah. Somebody got to her.
They have the software to track down any ISP and find any user on this forum. What you consider idle banter, they are now looking at ways to use it against dissent. There is only one way to combat this thuggery. Organize as our opponents have. There are more of us. We can take back the courts, school rooms, college professorships, local councils, and other roles of leadership. We can no longer afford to sleep through this. Organize in greater numbers. Fund raise. Use our numbers as our strength. We can boycott airlines. We can sue their unions. We can video them as they come and go. We can find out anything that they think they can find out about us. And we can do it better.
“They can track your cell phone, not your GPS.”
Unless you have OnStar!
The TSA is another agency like the EPA. They should be unfunded and disbanded yesterday.
And then charges filed.
“I’m not saying you were serious. But others might think it was. That’s all.”
People who are pushed around by agency’s of the government SHOULD take it seriously. So far I have not been... But don’t screw around with people I love.
What would you do if your family was violated? Would you sit back and do nothing? Answer please...
“How do these people lie with a straight face?”
Absolutely no conscience at all and years and years of practice.
Try 5 percent. Too many.
I read that in Seattle TSA people in uniform were denied service at a coffee shop. Maybe it’s a start???
I read that in Seattle TSA people in uniform were denied service at a coffee shop. Maybe it’s a start???
I read that in Seattle TSA people in uniform were denied service at a coffee shop. Maybe it’s a start???
Let’s just hope that somewhere along the way someone will actually be serious.
Problem is (to paraphrase "Hannibal Lecter") little minds with a little power "do enjoy their petty torments"; thus, the abuses will not just continue ... they'll expand (soon to railroads, then buses, then .......); eventually reaching a point where the public will say, "Enough!" But by then, the power is pretty much entrenched (if not so already).
There is a special place in Hell for the people who ordered this, and the ones who carried it out. I cannot imagine the depth of humiliation that little old woman felt. She is of the generation that believed in and practiced serious modesty. Even talking about the diaper would shame her... let alone having it and her private parts examined.
I would do what I could to help my loved ones- but not lash out in violence. They are not robbers. This is not a random thug on the street. These are people in uniform, backed up by other people in uniform who are armed. They can and will call back up to quell any 'disturbance'. I believe this enterprise is designed to make us lash out exactly this way so they will make examples of those who do. Communist and fascist regimes are famous for it.
There is only one way to stop it. That is to act as an organized body. We need to harness our frustration into organized action. Like I said, boycotts, legal actions, and political. We have to beat them at their own game.
My loved ones in Russia ran from the communists. The ones that stayed to 'fight' are dead. They gave over most of them to the Nazis. Some had to serve the communists to survive. The Soviets lasted 70 years. That is a long time to brutalize a population.
Hear, hear!!
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