Comments on: TSA to stop groping children

By: LatinoGeek

LatinoGeek — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 14:11:00 +0000

I think this has been in effect for little while already. MY wife and I traveled with my 5yo last month and she was waved through w/ my wife. Just went through the metal detector.

By: MDwebguy

MDwebguy — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 18:33:00 +0000

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By: GregS

GregS — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 17:19:00 +0000

Re: “Napolitano didn’t give a timeline but I’ll bet you they make these changes in time for the holiday travel season.”

Hold on, let me fix that typo in there for you:

“Napolitano didn’t give a timeline but I’ll bet you they make these changes in time for the 2012 election season.”

By: ZikZak

ZikZak — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 17:09:00 +0000

It’s only a matter of time now before TSA is completely open about who they want to target. Next the TSA will stop groping white people.

By: irksome

irksome — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 16:03:00 +0000

Well, guess I’ll just have to join the priesthood.

By: Daryl Fritz

Daryl Fritz — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 13:20:00 +0000

I lol’d at the title. Thanks!

By: Vadym Zakrevskyy

Vadym Zakrevskyy — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 13:19:00 +0000

Over and over and over again, I see that TSA does not pursue any specific set of goals, like making the public safe,- instead they just want themselves to look good and make the money spent on them seem justified in public eye… to get yet bigger budget. It’s just a money cow.

By: Carl Guderian

Carl Guderian — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 13:07:00 +0000

I flew out of Logan on the 12th. Two kids (under 10) were told they could keep their shoes on.

By: Fisher1949

Fisher1949 — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:30:00 +0000

According to Napolitano, we should be thankful that they will feel up fewer children than they do now. This of course implies that child molesters who only assault a few victims are somehow more acceptable than those whose attacks are more frequent.

Pistole said this in November, then in February after they strip searched a 3 year old boy in Kansas City, again in April after the 6 year old girl was groped in New Orleans and again in July. Don’t hold your breath waiting for this one.

The agency has repeatedly lied about their procedures and the level of the personal invasion and arrogantly dismissed victim complaints as either exaggerations or necessary to assure aircraft security. TSA has now become a criminal agency staffed by de facto child molesters.

Since December 2010 there have been 50 screeners arrested for crimes ranging from rape and child molesting to drug trafficking and theft from bags. In the same period, there have been 43 security breaches or failures, dozens of lawsuits and thousands of groping and abuse complaints. This includes three arrested today on another drug trafficking charge.

Incredibly, in less than a year TSA has managed to convince millions of Americans that it is acceptable to digitally strip search and fondle the privates of their children as a condition of air travel. No one would have believed this last year and yet here we are, submitting our bodies to the hands of a government clerk because spineless politicians have been bullied into allowing this abuse by power hungry bureaucrats only interested in furthering their own fortunes.

TSA Crimes & Abuses
ht tp://www.travelunderground.org/index.php?threads/master-lists-of-tsa-abuses-crimes.317/

The three people removed from a Detroit flight on Sunday, were detained 6 hours and strip searched. Welcome to the new America.
ht tp://shebshi.wordpress.com/2011/09/12/some-real-shock-and-awe-racially-profiled-and-cuffed-in-detroit/

By: kmoser

kmoser — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 08:51:00 +0000

Shouldn’t groping begin at the age of consent?

By: theregjoe

theregjoe — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 06:03:00 +0000

this is what I call a good start. that’s it
http://theregjoe.blogspot.com/2011/05/flight-nightmare.html

By: petsounds

petsounds — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 05:02:00 +0000

How many people here who have written outraged comments about the TSA are now submitting themselves to radiation or sexual groping? The Arab nations are showing us how the affirmation and defense of liberty is done, while we just sit and take the abuse.

By: Miss Demeanor

Miss Demeanor — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 04:54:00 +0000

Mini Me is dancing in the streets

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 03:12:00 +0000

Just dress like a child. Problem solved.

By: Sterling Anderson

Sterling Anderson — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 03:01:00 +0000

But what about the TERROR BABIES!

By: CLAVDIVS

CLAVDIVS — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 02:50:00 +0000

So they’ll leave young children alone, but they’ll continue to grope teenagers.

I could almost swear the TSA was trolling the entire country, just to see how much crap we’ll put up with.

By: mike mckeever

mike mckeever — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 02:27:00 +0000

The new procedures will go into effect as early as September 14 but no later than September 26th. I work as a TSO and was just briefed today about the dates.

By: Steven Barrett

Steven Barrett — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 02:24:00 +0000

Never thought I would live in a world where a headline like this could even exist.

By: Guest

Guest — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 23:48:00 +0000

There seems to be a law against many clever things, so, probably.

By: dainel

dainel — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 23:19:00 +0000

But groping adults is only half as much fun. Are they going to increase the salaries of those who admit to being pedophiles, in compensation for loss of job benefit?

By: efergus3

efergus3 — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 23:18:00 +0000

And in the news: http://www.ctnow.com/news/hc-tsa-oxycodone-arrests-0914-20110913,0,5809644.story

By: mellowknees

mellowknees — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 23:07:00 +0000

A step in the right direction.

Now how about enacting it for EVERYBODY.

By: Guest

Guest — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 23:06:00 +0000

Maybe… but it sounds like an interesting experiment… :P

By: Navin_Johnson

Navin_Johnson — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 22:59:00 +0000

Homeland Security/TSA hierarchy and policy makers:

President Obama
Janet Napolitano
John Pistole

Sponsored by a Republican and a Democrat and signed into law by George Bush.

Let me guess how many outraged ‘happy mutants’ will continue to back both parties…

By: Susan Carley Oliver

Susan Carley Oliver — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 22:57:00 +0000

It’s so easy now to fake realistic product labels. I’ve been thinking of buying a variety of small plastic bottles, all holding more than 3 ounces, and just labeling them all as 3 ounces. Is there a law against that?

By: Guest

Guest — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 22:47:00 +0000

Until the TSA ceases to exist completely, I will not fly. This throwing-us-a-bone (oh, goody- my kid doesn’t have to take hir shoes off! Things are returning to normal!) bullshit is not changing my views on this at all. It’s just another transparent attempt to keep people from complaining about having their constitutional rights violated every time they fly. Hell no.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 22:43:00 +0000

Civil liberties – Ha! Guilty until proven innocent if you want to fly. People could argue “well don’t fly” but some people need to for whatever reason, often work or a family emergency. The TSA is simply security theater. It’s not protecting somebody. How many boingboing stories have we seen where people forget a knife or something worse in their carry-on luggage, but get busted for a tube of toothpaste or bottled water? I don’t know, but the people selling bottled water for $3 a pint just past the security checkpoint are laughing all the way to the bank!

By: smaturin

smaturin — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 22:24:00 +0000

But they will need two forms of ID to prove they are under 13. Otherwise they get groped like everyone else.

By: smaturin

smaturin — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 22:22:00 +0000

But they will need two forms of ID to prove they are under 13. Otherwise they get groped like everybody else.

By: jimbuck

jimbuck — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 22:22:00 +0000

TSA Agent: How old are you, kid?
Kid: I turn 12 tomorrow.
TSA Agent: Ok, go ahead.

next kid ….

TSA Agent: How old are you?Kid: I turned 12 yesterday.TSA Agent: Take off your shoes and put them on the belt.

This is absurdity at its best. My 10yo daughter and my 43yo sister in law wear the same size shoe. I guess it’s the age of the kid that is important?