Monica Emmerson, her son, and the sippy cup.
Posted on 06/14/2007 12:13:27 PM PDT by FreedomCalls
Monica Emmerson, her son, and the sippy cup.
The TSA who handled this should be fired for being a moron. A sippy cup is now a threat? BULL$HIT it is!! This is just some petty little wanna-be dictator hassling someone for no good reason other than to get their jollies.
If all government employess got fired for being morons, there wouldn't be a Civil Service. Why do you think they are all protected from ever being fired for any reason?
We have a “Reagan National Airport,” but we certainly don’t live in a Reaganite country anymore. Not even close.
What a horrific story.
The TSA, aking the world save from baby cup terrorism and teaching beligerent terrorists a lesson. Meanwhile how many knife-through-security stories have we seen this month?
So, I open this story, expecting to feel anger toward the TSA and sympathy for the mother. But I have to say -- I think the mother handled this very badly. I'm not surprised they gave her a hard time. It started out small -- I do not think the sippy cup had to be a monumental problem -- but then she spills, she yells, she protests. Come on.
She handled this badly.
Not relevant to the story, but nineteen month old son and fiance?
This is the same mentality that happens to guards in prisions. Remember the experiment where a professor divided up his class into guards and prisioners and had to end it early due to the “guards’ being so cruel to there “prisioners”. Going through TSA security is just like getting checked into a prision to visit to visit a prisioner. They make you feel like you are a low life, well unless you’re the Hiltons.
Stupidity is contagious. In Government it's an epidemic........
Same goes for the underendowed Jack Booted Thugs who menaced a woman with a child. There’s a way to be professional in any situation. Too bad the cops’ names are not released so everyone who knows them could see what sort of faggots they really are.
Welcom to the new TSA Soviet Bloc.
Sorry, but I want to hear the other side of the story first. Look at the way moonbats scream about “police brutality” when they get tasered for ignoring security personnel at libraries. (Snicker)
But, no - this is a one-sided account. She could have very easily been rude and abrasive. Having a 19 month old doesn’t excuse you from treating public servants like trash.
What is their side of the story, before they are fired.
Having flown quite a bit I can tell you there are some really obnoxious people going through screening, some with children. Her story may be true to the letter but there may be more.
When I had broken my ankle and was flying I had to be set aside for special screening, the TSA where were very polite and professional about the whole deal but I also treated them with respect.
Ok ok to long I know but there are always two side to every story and if you’re a liberal there may be five or more.
What of it?
Hmmmm...Gee, what a surprise. What else could be expected to happen when a giant bureaucracy is thrown together out of expediency and then spawns thousands of these little bureaucruds?
As civilians, all we can do is try out best not to go through security when any of them are bored, pissed off or needing confirmation of their power. Yipes.
Could race be involved here? Monica Emmerson, after all, is terribly blonde.
AFAICT, the sole qualification for becoming a an agent for the TSA is to love power and to hate accountability. If you have those, you’re set for a lifetime career in the TSA.
Your right, it isn’t relevant. One less aborted baby is fine with me. That he will have married parents is a positive.
I suspect there’s more to the story if the woman started to make demands.
If she’s got a case, I hope she’s talking to her lawyer.
Why did her fiance wander off anyway?
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