Grandma or children... It doesn't matter to them....One has to wonder what good is being achieved by taking aside a mercenary target like the frail 85 year old Lenore Zimmerman who was wheelchair bound and packed with bandages to both legs and subjecting her to the oppressive experience of a body x ray? What were authorities looking to find? Even they must have suspected that she was on a scale of 1 to 10 of potential terrorist a minus billion but proceeded to humiliate her anyway cause it's important to pick out the most non targets as possible and then later tell the public it spares no one when it comes to sometimes necessary heavy handed screening seems to be counter productive and only sends out the message that the TSA is in fact discriminatory and fool hardy. Surely the odds must remain that if a terrorist plot were to unfold it would be in the hands of an able bodied individual, not a sitting target like Ms Zimmerman.
Really one has to wonder if we shouldn't be protecting ourselves from potential terrorists but the terrorism of the TSA and one has to wonder what Bozo's IQ is when he appointed a dyke like the grotesquely ugly Incompetano as it's chief.
Pubic relations experts?
Grandma or children... It doesn't matter to them....
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There have been conflicting stories about this. Secondly, why did the family release a picture of her as a 60 something when she’s 80 something. There are things that just don’t pass the smell test.
The 84 year old lady has an ICD (an implanted defibrillator) which is quite vulnerable to magnetic fields. She has an innate fear of setting the danged thing off. And so refused the radiation chamber.
I am her age and have an ICD and the same caution (fear) of magnetic fields. Recently went through the TSA Maginot Line in Atlanta. They assured me the radiation field wouldn’t affect the ICD, so I went right in and out. No problem.
Went through the same process at Tulsa on the same trip. Nothing.
But I fully understand her fear. A random shock from an ICD is no fun. And if she was strip searched, I hope she carries this right to the courts with big recovery of moolah.
“The probe described the TSA as “an enormous, inflexible and distracted bureaucracy, more concerned with human resource management and consolidating power” than actual security. And the final report concluded that most of the agency’s functions would be better handled by private companies.”
So it differs in no way whatsoever from all the other government success stories from schooling and health care to resource and parks management.
It’s just government business as usual.
I think that most of this is just to embarrass people..I also would like to see the person or persons that invaded this nice lady..Strange how they let the Muslims through and stop the white grannies..
Sure, there’s some silly things they make TSA do, but I smell a set-up here. I would bet that a complete video would show a cantankerous and crabby old lady that was already throwing a fit well before any search. Then she kicks at somebody and hits her walker instead.
Yes, we should be profiling and giving our extra attention to swarthy males between 17 and 35. You can’t however, announce that certain classes of people are exempt from screening or they’ll be the ones carrying the ‘splosives.
I’ve been through the screening hundreds of times, before and after 9/11 and creation of the TSA. I’m polite, I’m prepared, and I never have had any trouble. I breeze through. In my experience the people who bring an attitude and get all huffy about things are the ones that end up slowing everybody else down, and they’re invariably the ones that end up throwing a fit.
One gal in line ahead of me once was a classic case. I swear she looked like she decided to wear every piece of goth metal-studded clothing she owned. Complete with knee-high boots with about a dozen buckles each, huge bangly earrings, a steel-studded collar, studded gloves... and nasty, obnoxious attitude. I really wanted to ask her “did you not know you were going to the airport when you got dressed this morning? Seriously?” She slowed everybody else down and got all crabby like it was somebody else’s fault.
It’s just not that hard. But in all my travels, far more than the airline personnel or TSA personnel, the biggest problems and annoyances are caused by some asshat passenger that decides they need to get rude and disruptive and get in somebody’s face.
intended pun?
This smells wrong to me.
The TSA screeners are mostly dolts.
About 4 years ago I wheel my 94 yo granfather to the Orlando airport security checkoint and one idiot asks if he can stand and shuffle through the metal detector. So he does, and no alarms go off, but the moron screener thinks he can make the old guy stand with his feet together, no shoes with his arms extended out. ALSO makes him take his belt off.
So here is the 94 yo retired steel worker, wobbling around, his pants falling off while the braindead moronic screener is wanding him over. I bet the video screeners behind closed doors were just roaring in laughter. I was furious and I know if I breathed one word of protest id have been slammed to the floor and carted off to jail. It was the last time I saw my old grandpap.
Basically, radical islam has dictated how we conduct ourselves in America—with full approval of our handlers/politicians.
Well according to a DHS report, she is old and White, thus she is a likely terrorist in the era of Obama.
TSA is a POS thug organiztion but this woman is full **it.
Very inventive but that happens with dementia. Yuh see things that just aren’t there.
They are real to you but they are not reality.
One of the inconsistencies in the story is that they said she had a lower back brace which they removed and put back on. In order to do that they would have had to taken her pants down...thus they are most likely saying it is not a strip search, but golly gee it feels like one when you start taking some ones pants off and they could not have taken this brace off without doing that.
Some people won't be happy until there are two cops per civilian. You need one cop to hold the gun to your head while the other searches you. But of course, there is nothing to worry about if you are not doing anything wrong.
I would love to be on a jury on a case like this. Unless the TSA is searching someone named mohammed, I’d be extremely skeptical of anything they might say. Security theater is for the big screen, not our airports!
You don't know the half of it, Grandma. Get yourself a gun and a box of ammo.
And take a bus.
I used to just dislike bureaucrats and technocrats, but my dislike has turned into something very close to hatred.