This video gives me shivers. My daughter wants to visit grandparents in Florida this summer. The thought of watching her get touched like this gives me nightmares. I don't know that I could have been as calm as this mom.

Okay, I 'll bite..what video did you watch? I watched this one but I didn't see where her crotch got grabbed. Her legs were patted but but there was no grabbing. I saw the mother fiddling with phone during the "molestation" portion of the video. She didn't look outraged and she didn't intervene. I also saw where the TSA agent put on fresh gloves and spent time describing in detail to the child what was going to happen and then proceeded to do just what she described. I also saw them being let go until the mom went back AFTER the pat down, sorry molestation, occurred and they were given their paperwork and bags. To bad there was no sound, but the concerned and, I am sure totally unrelated, "citizen" holding the camera couldn't get close enough.

Look people, these manufactured videos don't help the cause. They make a mockery of the people who are really getting abused by TSA. It's like the other video posted here today. When a rational person sees them, they think oh the crazy people are out again. Yes, it is shame that real cases will probably not have video, but this doesn't help. I am sorry, but what I saw doesn't match the inflammatory nature of the description of the event. I fully expected to see the police throwing the woman to ground while a big TSA agent sat on a 14 year old girl and fondled her. What I actually saw was professional behavior by people who work with the masses.

Sheep Mommy, yeah, you're right. Unless a blue-shirted goon is throwing someone to the ground and sitting on him/her while a child is being "fondled," no big deal. Nothing to see here, move along.

You know what, you want to see this the way you want to see it. That's fine, but I am just telling you that crying wolf is a fast way to get you ignored. This lady had a long talk with both the police and the TSA agent before any pat down occurred. Her own video shows that she wasn't even watching the pat down. If she was that concerned why were her eyes on her phone?

I get that there has been been thuggery by the TSA, all I am saying is that these videos don't help. They just make you sound hysterical. I see nothing here that thousands of other people haven't experienced without long lasting psychological harm. People will see enough of this made up bullshit and decide not to listen anymore.

Real change doesn't come from throwing hissy fits in the airport and claiming that TSA raped you. What an insult to women who have really experienced rape. You get change by calling your elected representatives and starting petitions. Create a political action committee and do a membership drive. Call the offices of your elected representatives and find out what you can do to help write legislation to change this at the federal level. Whining on the Internet and posting bullshit videos will not help you achieve your goal.

Yes, Sheep Mommy, my years of activism on this issue -- which includes everything you've suggested and way more -- is just "whining."

Amy, breaking news: Carol Jean Price was just convicted of battery. Jury took only 20 minutes to reach a verdict. Unbelievable. No, I take that back. Entirely believable. When you have the United Sheeple of America, as exemplified by certain comments here, sitting on juries, this is what you get.

http://tsanewsblog.com/3968/news/carol-jean-price-convicted-of-battery-against-tsa/

Wait a minute...why is there a 'trial'?

I watched the entire video and wondered why the 2 cops were chewing gum like they were tough guys? Were they trying to bully the mother because she was concerned about her daughter? What was that about?

And then..moving in front of the mother when she tried to photograph the pat down of her daughter?

This made me sick watching the way they treated this mom and her 14 yr old daughter. It could be any of us.
Is this what Americans really want in their country? Does this make people feel safe?

My sister just returned from Germany and Poland and never had to take her shoes off...! She walked thru a metal detector and that was it.

We have an out of control bureaucracy in this country.
I have been thru a pat down behind closed doors. Maybe if everyone experienced that it would become a reality how the TSA is out of control in our country.

I ask again, is this what you REALLY want to happen to feel safe?

"Feeling safe" is an illusion at the best of times.

Sit down and watch "1000 ways to die" some time.

Safety is the lie we tell ourselves to make ourselves more comfortable and at ease.

And when we had a nation where courage was more common than cowardice, our people accepted that death was inevitable, and took precautions against the most probably early causes, and then went about living their lives.

Now, as a nation of cowards, any small risk must be removed, even if we must make ourselves ever more beholden to our "protectors" until no freedom remains at all.

Freedom after all, is very dangerous.

I'm sorry this wasn't graphic or brutal enough for you Sheepmommy. I have a daughter that age and it gave me shivers. That agent put her hands between the girl's legs and pushed up on her ass cheeks. I want to know what risk this girl posed or what probably cause there was to search her.

I cannot believe more people are not outraged over this. I shared it on FB and not one like or comment. If I post a stupid status about removing under God from the Pledge I get at least 50 hits. Disgusting!

Sigh... again with the "never been tested" LIE about Rapiscan 1000s. Just look back on this blog.

This is nuts. An inspection sticker doesn't - that's DOES NOT - restore your 4th Amendment rights. It has nothing whatsoever to do with it.

And wow, is sheepmommy the perfect handle for complying with TSA demands...

Real change doesn't come from throwing hissy fits in the airport and claiming that TSA raped you. What an insult to women who have really experienced rape. You get change by calling your elected representatives and starting petitions. Create a political action committee and do a membership drive. Call the offices of your elected representatives and find out what you can do to help write legislation to change this at the federal level. Whining on the Internet and posting bullshit videos will not help you achieve your goal. -- Sheep mommy at July 12, 2012 1:10 PM

I have written my state and federal legislators, including my comment why the TSA was never needed. I haven't created a petition to disband the TSA, but have signed them. I have repeated comments on my own personal website.

I will post my standard comment in a moment why the TSA was not needed. Please refute it to your heart's extent it. Please break my logic. Please tell me where I'm wrong. When you can -- I'll gladly stop "Whining on the Internet and posting bullshit videos" as you requested.

I'll continue to defend your rights and liberty even as you want to surrender them. I just hope there are enough of us to reverse coure, unlike you sheeple.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it. -- Thomas Jefferson

For all you regular readers of the Goddess' blog you can skip past this post. I'm going to post my regular rant about not needing the TSA. For all you new readers, please read it carefully and refute any statement or misstatement. ;-)

=================================================
The TSA was not needed one hour and one minute after Tower II was hit!

The paradigm, the norm, the expected, what everyone was taught to do was to sit down, shut up and wait for the plane to land and the negotiations happen. That was the model from Entebbe onward.

The passengers on board did not really know what was about to happen on September 11, 2001 at 8:46:30 when Flight 11 struck Tower I.

Even the passengers on Flight 175 probably didn't realize what was about to happen when they struck Tower II at 9:03:02.

The Pentagon crash of Flight 77 at 9:37:46 may have been still a matter of ignorance.

At 10:03:11 on September 11, 2001, United Airlines Flight 93 crashed after the brave souls counter-attacked and caused the hijackers to crash the plane.

The time difference is 60 minutes and 9 seconds from Tower II being struck to the crash of Flight 93. The shoe bomber and panty bomber were taken down by fellow passengers as well. Recently, JetBlue's Flight 191 pilot was taken down by the passengers once he was out of the cockpit. Additionally how many times have you heard of passengers' concerns and diverted flights?

The TSA is and has always been a joke, no make that a total stupidity, that has wasted our country's fortune going down a rabbit hole.

If you don't believe me look at the 9/11 timeline.

There will never be another 9/11 style attack unless the attackers can arrange planes full of geriatrics, and even then it would be doubtful.
=================================================

Please Sheep Mommy break this argument.

>>This is nuts. An inspection sticker doesn't - that's DOES NOT - restore your 4th Amendment rights. It has nothing whatsoever to do with it.

You are 100% absolutely correct! Totally agree and there's nothing you can say to convince me otherwise ... well maybe, but let's not go there. However, any stumbling blocks we can can put up for our, foes of contention, must surely be a good thing, right? And, of course, if you make the implementation of an undesired course of action ultimately too expensive to implement, isn't that a good thing, if it works?

Hi Sheep Mommy,

The TSA raped me. Your tone suggested that any such claim must, of course, be false, but let me give you the entire factual account of how the TSA raped me. The FBI defines rape to include "penetration, however slight, with any foreign object". A TSA screener at BWI put a metal detecting wand under my skirt and pushed, forcefully, up into my body, until both the plastic tip of the probe and my underwear were lodged firmly inside my body. The TSA raped me. I filed a huge number of complaints, in writing, both at the checkpoint and in the days after my assault. My congressman Ben Cardin finally forced the TSA to respond to my complaint and they sent this pathetic excuse: "Although your genital area was violated, the screener followed established procedure correctly. It is very difficult to search the lower torso of women without contacting them. This contact is not sexual." Nice, huh? Shoving a long plastic probe up between my legs and into my body isn't sexual?

These perverts know, for a fact, because they responded to me in writing, that they are sexually assaulting innocent women, and the TSA is officially just fine with that. If I'm offended at being raped, the TSA considers that my problem. I suppose this means that you, Sheep Mommy, wouldn't mind strangers inserting objects into the vaginas of your daughters, right, as long as it "wasn't sexual."

I don't know what video you watched, but in the Andrea Abbott arrest video that I saw, an adult slammed her hands into the crotch of a 14-year-old girl hard enough to make the girl's whole body crumple as she lifted the girl's heels off the floor. It's absolutely disgusting that you would defend such violence against a child. You are one sick sheep, mommy.

I will not fly again unless and until the TSA is fully disbanded. Nor will I allow my daughters to fly unless and until the TSA is fully disbanded. If more people would just refuse to fly (because unless you're flying for business (corporate and/or family) there's really no reason to fly for pleasure, when at the outset of your trip the pleasure is taken from you in the form of a "security" check. There is NO NEED for the TSA. Never has been, never will be. It's total and complete bullshit and I will NOT subject myself or my family to such unjustified personal INTRUSION. PERIOD. Sheepmommy you are just that. There is NO REASON EVER why anyone should touch you and/or your children in any way, shape or form just because you want to get on a plane. Such bullshit. And you, like millions of the other sheeple in this country, believe it to be true. How sad. How fucking delusional.

Unfortunately, some people only learn lessons in life when they're metaphorically slapped in the face. As with so many other Americans, Sheep Mommy and/or her loved ones need to be abused themselves before they'll get it. And even then, they might still defend it. Stockholm Syndrome seems to be alive and well.

Sheep-mommy is very aptly named. My kids will never be porn-scanned or fondled. Period. Jail me? Fine. But I will not tell my kids that other people have the right to grope them in ANY context.

I'd happily fly an airline that bypassed the TSA checks someway, and feel safer doing so.

I'm doing some part-time work for a guy trying to start a franchise business. He has told me that after we finish building our first place, he wants to put me in charge of gallavanting about the country helping new franchises get started. I told him I will not repeat NOT fly while the TSA is doing these enhanced pat-downs. I can deal (grudgingly) with having my bag poked through and walking through a metal detector, but I cannot and WILL not be sexually assaulted EVER again. And certainly not in the name of "safety."

Predators tell the children they abuse that it's a special way of showing love, something most people don't understand, and so we have to keep it a secret so that other people won't misunderstand, or get jealous because of our special relationship.
That kind of predation against the young is RARELY violent. The pervert doing it wants to maintain a fiction that he/she is not hurting them, but loving them. The kind of bull put out by the TSA is, for someone who's been there, frighteningly similar to the stuff predators tell their victims.

I'm not going through it, and I wouldn't subject anyone in my care to it, either.

I'm still waiting for Sheep Mommy to reply. :-D