Three-Year-Old Body-Searched By TSA
Ed Morrissey has a comprehensive blog post at Hot Air, but here's the video:
Janet Napolitano in USA Today this morning:
We ask for cooperation, patience and a commitment to vigilance in the face of a determined enemy.
I only wish I'd had the guts to carry on like that 3-year-old when I was sexually assaulted by a TSA worker at the Las Vegas airport.
Gregg just heard Napolitano on TV in a press conference saying something like, "If you don't like the search at the airport, you have other travel options."
Gregg: "Yeah, let me hitchhike from LA to Detroit."
Thanks, Rosemary
"If you don't like the search at the airport, you have other travel options."
yeah, do any of these people remember who works for who?
I think people should sue her directly for establishing an atmosphere of sexual harrasment both inside her agency and within the public at large. Basically what we need if for a bigshot lawyer to get grabbed the wrong way to get the party started...
SwissArmyD at November 15, 2010 9:40 AM
I don't understand. I just flew to Thailand and back, and just had to walk thru metal detectors and have my carry-ons searched (annoying enough).
My luggage is taken away, and I assumed searched elsewhere now. The whole process is much easier than a couple of years back (for all passengers; I was treated the same as everyone else, despite my good looks).
Why the variation?
BOTU at November 15, 2010 9:44 AM
If you drive a car, your lifetime risk of dying in an auto accident is 1 in 100, and the probability of an injury requiring hospital treatment is 5 in 100.
The risk of dying in an airplane is much less, even with terror attacks. The only reason that we have this "security theater" is that career federal bureaucrats now have careers based on making us "safe" no matter what the cost or indignity.
Surly there should be some level of anti-terrorist security. There is a good case that this seurity should concentrate on police work rather than underwear searches.
Schneier.com - The Comparative Risk of Terrorism
- - schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/01/the_comparative.html
Schneier.com - Beyond Security Theater
- - schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/11/beyond_security.html
Andrew_M_Garland at November 15, 2010 9:59 AM
Well, that settles it for me. Not that my girls would act like that 3-year-old but my gods, why make them suffer the indignity??
Flynne at November 15, 2010 11:47 AM
The video won't play. Says it was removed..
Melody at November 15, 2010 12:36 PM
"If you don't like the search at the airport, you have other travel options."
Funny but we don't, if you refuse to take it from them and leave, then they will sue you for $10,000. At least that kid with the video that's going around said when they said he'd have to leave, then when he tried to leave the told him he can't and they would sue him in civil court (not criminal) for leaving!
argh
this is the stupidest idea anyway. As you have written so often, the Israelis look for terrorists, while we look for bombs. Each of these TSA rules can be gotten around, all they have to do is know the rules.
plutosdad at November 15, 2010 2:04 PM
Even beyond all this insanity and indignity foisted upon innocent Americans, is this: There's no way, NO WAY, that TSA will be permitted to grope Muslim women -- OR get to see their private parts on a screen. Muslims will get religious exemption from this stuff. Just wait and see. Then, what exactly what does this all accomplish in the end? Nothing but free license to sexually assault all non-Muslims of all ages, under color of law and out of "concern" for our safety (so they say).
The words to describe this travesty genuinely escape me.
cpabroker at November 15, 2010 6:34 PM
That poor kid, she is only doing what we have taught our kids to do, ie, don't let a stranger touch you in your private places. This isn't a "search", it's an assault. Sad part is, that employee of the "TSA" probably went home that night and complained about the "Screaming brat". I wish the mother had been a little more forceful in telling the TSA bully to stop, tho. If it had been my kid, that woman would have been spitting teeth and I would be in handcuffs :P
I hate to fly, I'm scared spitless of heights and the motion makes me ill, so I'm not really going to be bothered to buy my dramamine and give myself peptalks for days before getting on a plane just so some bully can grope me.
I won't be taking that flight to Fla, Disney and Universal can suck wind because that's tourist dollars they won't get. Carnival had better open a port near enough for me to drive or they can kiss those cruise dollars goodbye. And that trip I promised my kid, the one to New Orleans? Yeah, not gonna happen.
I'm sure we will be seeing another big $$$ bailout of the airlines by next year because of the hit that they will be taking from this......
Kat at November 16, 2010 12:46 PM
A couple things come to mind: 1) The reporter in the video repeats the mantra that we all need to sacrifice for the common good when it comes to airport security. Really? I can only think of one group that wishes to bring down airliners or commit such atrocious terrorism, it sure isn't 99% of the flying public. 2) I can't imagine one red-blooded American would strap a bomb to their child to blow up anything
jksisco at November 16, 2010 1:28 PM
I'm telling you - buy a Ferrari and drive. You get to see so much more that way.
Plus, a Ferrari sounds so much better than an airplane.
brian at November 17, 2010 10:01 PM
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