In America we have the right to not be subject to unreasonable search and seizure. This example is egregious on so many levels it goes beyond travesty and into surreal.
Imagine your mother, or grand-mother being subjected to this kind on personal intrusion, and ask yourself what you would do. Are we to stand for this much longer, free citizens being probed and prodded in ways which all of us find disgusting and insulting?
As long as we do not believe in profiling, and think we can treat the problem of "terrorism" by fondling everyone equally we have effectively given up our right to privacy. This abdication of a basic right is a step in the direction of our demise, at our own hands.
I will never fly again, no matter what. I will not give the Feds my body to do with what they please.
Not now, not ever.
From nwfDailyNews June 25 by Laren Sage Reinlie
Elderly woman asked to remove adult diaper during TSA sear
A woman has filed a complaint with federal authorities over how her elderly mother was treated at Northwest Florida Regional Airport last weekend.
Jean Weber of Destin filed a complaint with the Department of Homeland Security after her 95-year-old mother was detained and extensively searched last Saturday while trying to board a plane to fly to Michigan to be with family members during the final stages of her battle with leukemia.
Her mother, who was in a wheelchair, was asked to remove an adult diaper in order to complete a pat-down search.
She has leukemia, she is in a wheelchair going to say goodbye to loved ones before dying. I spit in their direction for even thinking this woman is any kind of threat.
“It’s something I couldn’t imagine happening on American soil,” Weber said Friday. “Here is my mother, 95 years old, 105 pounds, barely able to stand, and then this.”
Sari Koshetz, a spokeswoman for the Transportation Security Administration in Miami, said she could not comment on specific cases to protect the privacy of those involved.
“The TSA works with passengers to resolve any security alarms in a respectful and sensitive manner,” she said.
Weber’s mother entered the airport’s security checkpoint in a wheelchair because she was not stable enough to walk through, Weber said.
Wheelchairs trigger certain protocols, including pat-downs and possible swabbing for explosives, Koshetz said.
“During any part of the process, if there is an alarm, then we have to resolve that alarm,” she said.
Weber said she did not know whether her mother had triggered an alarm during the 45 minutes they were detained.
She said her mother was first pulled aside into a glass-partitioned area and patted down. Then she was taken to another room to protect her privacy during a more extensive search, Weber said.
Weber said she sat outside the room during the search.
She said security personnel then came out and told her they would need for her mother to remove her Depends diaper because it was soiled and was impeding their search.
The indignity of all this cannot be understated. I have problems comprehending how a TSA agent could possibly believe that there would be explosives inside the Depends of a 95-year old woman. Outrageous doesn't begin to cover it.
Weber wheeled her mother into a bathroom, removed her diaper and returned. Her mother did not have another clean diaper with her, Weber said.
Weber said she wished there were less invasive search methods for an elderly person who is unable to walk through security gates.
There is: search only those who practice terrorism, you know the Middle Eastern male between 18 and 35. That would end the terror inflicted on 95-year olds wearing Depends.
“I don’t understand why they have to put them through that kind of procedure,” she said.
Koshetz said the procedures are the same for everyone to ensure national security.
“TSA cannot exempt any group from screening because we know from intelligence that there are terrorists out there that would then exploit that vulnerability,” she said.
Weber filed a complaint through Northwest Florida Regional’s website. She said she received a response from a Homeland Security representative at the airport on Tuesday and spoke to that person on the phone Wednesday.
The representative told her that personnel had followed procedures during the search, Weber said.
“Then I thought, if you’re just following rules and regulations, then the rules and regulations need to be changed,” she said.
See above to learn how the rules can change, Ms. Weber.
Weber said she plans to file additional complaints next week.
“I’m not one to make waves, but dadgummit, this is wrong. People need to know. Next time it could be you.”
Imagine your mother, or grand-mother being subjected to this kind on personal intrusion, and ask yourself what you would do. Are we to stand for this much longer, free citizens being probed and prodded in ways which all of us find disgusting and insulting?
As long as we do not believe in profiling, and think we can treat the problem of "terrorism" by fondling everyone equally we have effectively given up our right to privacy. This abdication of a basic right is a step in the direction of our demise, at our own hands.
I will never fly again, no matter what. I will not give the Feds my body to do with what they please.
Not now, not ever.
From nwfDailyNews June 25 by Laren Sage Reinlie
Elderly woman asked to remove adult diaper during TSA sear
A woman has filed a complaint with federal authorities over how her elderly mother was treated at Northwest Florida Regional Airport last weekend.
Jean Weber of Destin filed a complaint with the Department of Homeland Security after her 95-year-old mother was detained and extensively searched last Saturday while trying to board a plane to fly to Michigan to be with family members during the final stages of her battle with leukemia.
Her mother, who was in a wheelchair, was asked to remove an adult diaper in order to complete a pat-down search.
She has leukemia, she is in a wheelchair going to say goodbye to loved ones before dying. I spit in their direction for even thinking this woman is any kind of threat.
“It’s something I couldn’t imagine happening on American soil,” Weber said Friday. “Here is my mother, 95 years old, 105 pounds, barely able to stand, and then this.”
Sari Koshetz, a spokeswoman for the Transportation Security Administration in Miami, said she could not comment on specific cases to protect the privacy of those involved.
“The TSA works with passengers to resolve any security alarms in a respectful and sensitive manner,” she said.
Weber’s mother entered the airport’s security checkpoint in a wheelchair because she was not stable enough to walk through, Weber said.
Wheelchairs trigger certain protocols, including pat-downs and possible swabbing for explosives, Koshetz said.
“During any part of the process, if there is an alarm, then we have to resolve that alarm,” she said.
Weber said she did not know whether her mother had triggered an alarm during the 45 minutes they were detained.
She said her mother was first pulled aside into a glass-partitioned area and patted down. Then she was taken to another room to protect her privacy during a more extensive search, Weber said.
Weber said she sat outside the room during the search.
She said security personnel then came out and told her they would need for her mother to remove her Depends diaper because it was soiled and was impeding their search.
The indignity of all this cannot be understated. I have problems comprehending how a TSA agent could possibly believe that there would be explosives inside the Depends of a 95-year old woman. Outrageous doesn't begin to cover it.
Weber wheeled her mother into a bathroom, removed her diaper and returned. Her mother did not have another clean diaper with her, Weber said.
Weber said she wished there were less invasive search methods for an elderly person who is unable to walk through security gates.
There is: search only those who practice terrorism, you know the Middle Eastern male between 18 and 35. That would end the terror inflicted on 95-year olds wearing Depends.
“I don’t understand why they have to put them through that kind of procedure,” she said.
Koshetz said the procedures are the same for everyone to ensure national security.
“TSA cannot exempt any group from screening because we know from intelligence that there are terrorists out there that would then exploit that vulnerability,” she said.
Weber filed a complaint through Northwest Florida Regional’s website. She said she received a response from a Homeland Security representative at the airport on Tuesday and spoke to that person on the phone Wednesday.
The representative told her that personnel had followed procedures during the search, Weber said.
“Then I thought, if you’re just following rules and regulations, then the rules and regulations need to be changed,” she said.
See above to learn how the rules can change, Ms. Weber.
Weber said she plans to file additional complaints next week.
“I’m not one to make waves, but dadgummit, this is wrong. People need to know. Next time it could be you.”
1 comment:
Unfortunately unless we abandon political correctness and our current policy of kowtowing to Islam, obscenities of this kind will be repeated.
The TSA has special procedures for Muslims. According to CAIR, the TSA’s new “enhanced pat down” policy should be limited to searching ONLY around Muslim women’s head and neck if they are wearing a hijab or abaya.
This was announced by CAIR:
Recommendations for Muslim women who wear hijab:
Special recommendations for Muslim women who wear hijab:
* If you are selected for secondary screening after you go through the metal detector and it does not go off, and “sss” is not written on your boarding pass, ask the TSA officer if the reason you are being selected is because of your head scarf.
* In this situation, you may be asked to submit to a pat-down or to go through a full body scanner. If you are selected for the scanner, you may ask to go through a pat-down instead.
* Before you are patted down, you should remind the TSA officer that they are only supposed to pat down the area in question, in this scenario, your head and neck. They SHOULD NOT subject you to a full-body or partial-body pat-down.
* You may ask to be taken to a private room for the pat-down procedure.
* Instead of the pat-down, YOU CAN ALWAYS REQUEST TO PAT DOWN YOUR OWN SCARF, including head and neck area, and have the officers perform a chemical swipe of your hands.
Until we acknowledge that the "religion of peace" isn't very peaceful, the government/TSA will continue to target the innocent and ignore the terrorists among us.
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