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The moment a mom, 42, with breast cancer was 'violated' and reduced to tears by TSA agents ...
(UK) Daily Mail ^ | December 7, 2016 | Jessica Chia

Posted on 12/07/2016 6:28:28 AM PST by Zakeet

Complete Headline: The moment a mom, 42, with breast cancer was 'violated' and reduced to tears by TSA agents who patted down her medical port and 'tried to perform a body cavity search in public'

Denise Albert, a morning show contributor and co-host of The Moms, a SiriusXM radio show, was traveling through Los Angeles International Airport on Sunday when the 'humiliating' experience left her in tears.

Albert detailed the experience of removing her wig, exposing the sores on her feet, and telling the TSA agents she had a medical port in her chest that she didn't want them to touch - a warning that was not heeded.

Albert said she notified TSA about her medical port and removed the cream from her bag, as she has done numerous times before without an issue.

The security agents then pulled her aside, and said she would have to take off her shoes and undergo a full body pat-down 'with pressure' if she wanted to take the medical cream with her, Albert wrote.

The agents flouted the TSA pre-check protocol by asking her to take off her shoes, leaving her bare feet freezing for 20 minutes due to her medical treatment, she claimed.

Albert asked to sit down, since her chemotherapy has left her feet covered in sores, which she did not want touching the ground.

They later offered to conduct the search in the privacy of a room, but Albert said she couldn't walk there because they wouldn't return her boots.

The radio host said the agents then told her they would 'apply pressure from head to toe', and she decided to take her wig off, saying: 'I didn't want them to touch it, move it, or ruin it'.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: airlines; bushesfault; cancer; government; tsa
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It's OK for the TSA Nazis to keep us safe from people like that poor woman and this old man as long as they don't offend Muzzies by making them go through screening like this ...

1 posted on 12/07/2016 6:28:28 AM PST by Zakeet
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To: Zakeet

Keep taking this humiliating sh#t, America. It’s designed to break you. In the mean time your borders are wide open.


2 posted on 12/07/2016 6:32:23 AM PST by WKUHilltopper
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To: Zakeet

I hope President Trump can do something about this.


3 posted on 12/07/2016 6:33:55 AM PST by MAGA2017
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I was treated like dog sh!t by LAX TSA people when flying home to my father’s funeral. Horrid, dreadful pieces of crap they are. Barney Fifes but demon possessed.


4 posted on 12/07/2016 6:36:37 AM PST by MayflowerMadam
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To: Zakeet

Meanwhile we have military aged men, direct off the boat from Yemen an Somalia, loading our friggin aircraft

Madness


5 posted on 12/07/2016 6:40:18 AM PST by Spruce
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I know I sleep better at night knowing the TSA is on the job protecting us from terrorists...

...

...

/s ( but hoping it wasn't really necessary )

6 posted on 12/07/2016 6:42:42 AM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: WKUHilltopper

One of the several reasons I quit flying. I was pretty well sick of flying even before 911. TSA is just icing on the cake. Screw that!


7 posted on 12/07/2016 6:42:55 AM PST by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and thse religion of thieves. Socialism is governmental theft!)
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To: Zakeet
THIS IS HOW YOU HELP TERRORISTS TO WIN:

BY WASTING LIMITTED RESOURCES ON STUPID THINGS.

8 posted on 12/07/2016 6:43:21 AM PST by Mr. K ( Trump kicked her ass 2-to-1 if you remove all the voter fraud.)
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Disgusting and shameful. Old men and women are not the threat. Focus on young men of Middle-Eastern descent!


9 posted on 12/07/2016 6:44:10 AM PST by tjd1454
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To: Zakeet

We spent the time and money to get the TSA pre- went smoothly several times thru security but on our last trip my husband had to remove his shoes and had other issues - people in the “regular” line got through faster than he did.


10 posted on 12/07/2016 6:44:25 AM PST by boxlunch (Pray for Donald Trump's safety, for his family and cabinet. Make America Good Again!)
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To: MAGA2017

Donald Trump briefly mentioned something about reigning in the TSA during his acceptance speech at the Cleveland convention.

The comment was made very briefly, but I wonder what he has in mind.


11 posted on 12/07/2016 6:46:02 AM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (November 8, 2016..... Donald Trump schlongs Hillary Clinton. 306 Electoral Votes)
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I hope he kills the TSA. It does no good. It is just in place to torment the american public.

I don’t fly anymore. I drive. The airlines and the frickin’ TSA can all just go away and die a horrible, painful death.


12 posted on 12/07/2016 6:50:15 AM PST by RepRivFarm ("During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." -George Orwell)
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To: MAGA2017

“I hope President Trump can do something about this.”...

He CAN do something, the question is will he? My guess he WILL do something.

How many true “terrorists” have those people actually found since this privacy invasion started?

On the other hand, I cannot say enough GOOD things for a number of TSA people who treated my wife (who is handicapped and requires a wheelchair) and I, as we went through customs inspection both in Canada and in the U.S. Unfortunately, there are poor employees in every job and also it was unfortunate for the articles two examples, those travelers found them.


13 posted on 12/07/2016 6:50:23 AM PST by DaveA37
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To: MAGA2017

“I hope President Trump can do something about this.”

Yes, and within the first 100 days!


14 posted on 12/07/2016 6:51:28 AM PST by ryderann
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Incompetent, indecent scumbags - I DESPISE the TSA. How they treat people would be bad enough if they actually accomplished their mission, but they have NEVER caught anyone who was trying to board a plane with a bomb or anything else; they regularly fail tests by other government agents, who sneak guns past these morons.

Trump MUST do something about these people, starting at the top with a serious change in attitude.


15 posted on 12/07/2016 6:53:14 AM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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16 posted on 12/07/2016 6:56:55 AM PST by RC one (The 2nd Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances)
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To: Zakeet

get and publish their names.

If you can get, in addition, pictures of them and publish them as well.

bullies hate being known.


17 posted on 12/07/2016 7:04:00 AM PST by The_Republic_Of_Maine (politicians beware)
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I have learned that if I don’t use my airport borrowed wheel chair and walk through the screening machine, it has stopped the hand screening. So even though it is painful, I get out of the chair to walk it.

I was leaving Fresno a few years ago, and they pulled three of us out of line, and made us stand side by side with our arms out, switching from one foot to the other for about a minute until I told them I was going to fall down and threatened to sue them for more money than they’ve ever seen. The screening was terminated and we boarded and left. Still have no idea why, especially at an airport that doesn’t exactly qualify as an international in the middle of an agricultural area of about 200 square miles.

red


18 posted on 12/07/2016 7:06:29 AM PST by Redwood71
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To: Zakeet

The TSA needs to be disbanded.
They’ve never caught a terrorist; they’ve only inconvenienced and abused citizens.


19 posted on 12/07/2016 7:08:00 AM PST by BuffaloJack (Own a rifle. Be an American.)
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To: The_Republic_Of_Maine

Wear vid cam glasses. Get the whole thing down.


20 posted on 12/07/2016 7:09:45 AM PST by Noumenon (Proud Irredeemable Deplorable, heavily armed Infidel. Islam delenda est.)
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