Airport screeners 'touch' pregnant woman's breasts

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Wednesday, December 25, 2002 | By Diana Lynne

[knuthom]

Just after the incident, their baby breeched causing Mary Monahan to abandon her desire for a natural birth. He blamed the trauma she experienced at PDX.

He has very legitimate complaints. But he loses some credibility when he throws in stuff like this. There is no connection between the two incidents.

[Mean Daddy]

My family and I went to Portland last Easter. When heading home to Omaha, I was asked to remove my jacket to send through the screener. I was also holding my 1 year old who was also wearing a jacket. I guess the screener wanted me to remove her jacket to (even though she said just me) and put me and my 1 year old in a line to get scanned and frisked. The young man who came over to check me rolled his eyes at the little Hitler who wanted my 1 year old checked. They brought a female guard over to check the 1 year old and thankfully the young man let my wife take my daughter while he checked me.

[Aggie Mama]

You are right about that one. Upon further thought, I would have been the one to punch the screener instead of DH. Typically when pregnant, the breasts are very tender because of all the hormonal changes. It probably hurt the woman to be frisked by the screener if the employee wasn't gentle. I still don't understand why they didn't make her take off the bra instead of feeling her up and lifting her shirt in line.

[MichiganConservative]

The security paradigm that the federal government is currently employing is wrong. Does anyone remember who was actually responsible for thwarting the attacks on 9/11? Or what thwarted Richard Reid, the shoe bomber? How about the guy in South America? It was the passengers.

The proper response was not to jsut start treating everyone who wants to fly like convicted felons or worse. Not everyone wants to hijack an airplane; the vast majority do not. That's a fact. The proper response would have been to harness that fact, rather than impose Draconian "security" measures.

The proper response would have been to tell the American people they're on the front lines and they need to be prepared when they fly. They should have been told to strap on their piece when flying.

But we could never do that. We're a nation of wimps, sissies, and sheep, now. We can't do for ourselves. The ever-lovin' federal government has to be our daddy, our protector, our benefactor, our everything. It is disgusting to watch.

[Buffalo Head]

"I know me and I would be in jail in a country heart beat if one of those federalized rent a cops put a hand on me."

You have revealed enough about yourself to fully vindicate the zero tolerance policy in airport security.

[Buffalo Head]

"What is really hilarious is that folks think these "stringent" boarding procedures will make them safe."

True, but it does keep many undisciplined kooks off the airplanes.

[TheOtherOne]

Maybe this will shut up some of the folks trying to say that this incident never happened. Then again, maybe not.

Why would a different paper running the same story add anything to the argument either way?

[Buffalo Head]

"....all the liberty and freedom that this country was founded upon...."

Flying on a commercial airline is not a God given right, or Constitutional right or any other kind of right or entitlement. Behave and follow the rules and you will be allowed to enjoy some of the fruits of our country's freedoms.

[Check6]

Hey everyone: just face the facts! America is gone. We let the democrats destroy it. We are as much at fault as they are.

[onceone]

Why would a different paper running the same story add anything to the argument either way?

Early in the previous thread the question of authenticity was raised due to the lack of other sources identified or cited, i.e. screeners, police, etc.

Perhaps the addition of such information in the WND piece lends credence to the story?

[TheOtherOne]

Yes but the WND piece starts, "According to Monahan's account".

That is hardly a secondary source.

[MichiganConservative]

There's this thing called Amendment 4 to the US Constitution. It states: "The right of the gpeople to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause..."

So, is the mere fact that you want to get on an airplane probable cause to get searched by some federal rent-a-losers? Some think so. I don't buy that argument. Or can you get searched walking to a play? There's no Constitutional right to go see a play, is there? how about driving to visit friends? ther's no Constitutional right to go visit friens, now is there?

And all the sheeple went "Baaaaah! Please make me safe. I'll abdicate all my personal responsiblity and duties and rights, just make me safe!!! Baaaaaaah!"

[bvw]

Cover your mouth when you burp, please.

[Buffalo Head]

"It isn’t a right, true, but could you explain to me where exactly the government gets the constitutional authority to regulate the customers of a private business on this level?"

In exactly the same place where they derive the authority to regulate automobile drivers. No license, no driving. No consent to a reasonable search of things taken aboard and aircraft, no flying.

Sometimes one has to pay the price of admission.

[snopercod]

Take off the bra. That's the ticket!

French woman arrested for indecent exposure at airport

[Cultural Jihad]

Monahan said, (as a chip was seen to fall from his shoulder), "Nothing's going to stop the inevitable. There's no policy change that's going to save us. There's no election that's going to put a halt to the onslaught of tyranny. It's here already: this country has changed for the worse and will continue to change for the worse. There is now a division between the citizenry and the state. When that state is used as a tool against me, there is no longer any reason why I should owe any allegiance to that state."

[slimer]

I want to be a screener too.

[snopercod]

America is gone. We let the democrats destroy it.

Uh...excuse me, but isn't Bush (a republican, nominally) the one who federalized airline security and imposed these stupid rules on the public?