TSA Thuggos Make Women Drink Their Own Breast Milk And Ruin Perishable Babyfood To Keep Up The Pretend Security
Peter Greenberg writes at his site:
Open bottles, confiscated food, toddler pat downs. The TSA can make travel so much harder for parents. One mom was forced to pump her breasts in a public restroom to prove her empty containers were for milk. Another mom missed her flight because she was held for 90 minutes as her milk was screened.
The TSA dimwits wanted Greenberg's editorial director to open pouches of babyfood that go bad unless consumed within 24 hours. She had four sealed pouches.
He spoke with his supervisor, returned and said that if we didn't want to open the food, all three of us would have to undergo an enhanced screening: me, my husband and our son.I grumpily opened the food and then complained to the supervisor who said, "I understand your frustration but these are the rules" and handed me a photocopied customer service form.
After leaving the area, my husband turned to me and asked the million-dollar question:
"How would patting us down tell them what's in the baby food?"
Again, it's pretend security, designed to give you the impression that they're doing something (never mind that it's not something at all meaningful), and think about the sort of person who needs to turn to the TSA for a job. I might hire them if I needed somebody to mop my floors. I sure wouldn't hire them as "security."
Oh, and they recently terrorized a 6-year-old wearing shorts and a tee-shirt whose shoes were removed, pulling her over and patting her down. As her grandma, Ellen Keiser wrote, "When does the madness stop?"
The answer is: Not until more Americans than just a veritable handful of us start demanding that our rights be respected instead of taken from us.
Hey.
You flew.
Radwaste at August 18, 2013 10:36 AM
Amy Alkon
http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2013/08/18/tsa_thuggos_mak.html#comment-3863076">comment from RadwasteOn the way to New Jersey, I was disgustingly groped. Why? Because there's reason to believe I'm in al Qaeda? No, because we engage in the wildly wasteful and idiotic practice of pretending that every American who needs to take a plane is a plausible suspect.
On the way back, they were making everyone go through the cooker. The metal detector had a safety belt-type belt across it, but I saw them open it up to let a tiny little girl through and I hoped hard that they would not make me get groped. (I don't go through the cooker -- we have no idea what that does to our cell/RNA, etc., and I'm sure never putting a puppy or dog through it. Parents who put their kids through it -- well, wow.)
Anyway, I got lucky. One of the TSA thugs motioned me, carrying my 2.3 pounds of Chinese Crested puppy, to the metal detector. I held her and then we walked through.
Then, as I was collecting my stuff, one of these disgusting TSA thugs came over and tried to chat about my dog. I will not be congenial to these people. Well, when I wasn't giving up information in response to his questions, he picked up the ticket tag on my dog's bag and turned it around -- a fucking violation of my privacy. I was horrified. I didn't want to make a big deal of it (though I normally would have called a supervisor and made a stink) because I had this doggie to protect. But, I did protest lightly to him that if he wasn't doing some mandated security thing, my privacy was being violated. Asshole! When you give people power, they generally don't take less of it than they're given. Especially people who would most likely never be in positions of power in any other venue.
Amy Alkon
at August 18, 2013 10:49 AM
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. ;-)
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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 before Entebbe and afterward.
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.
Oh, and someone brought bombs being an issue. If bombs were effective and simple then the Lockerbie bombing would have been repeated multiple times between 21 December 1988 and 11 September 2001. That's 4647 days or 13 years. Where was the TSA in that time? There was one successful bombing that was done in Colombia and two unsuccessful attempts in that time. The bombing in Colombia was a drug dealer assassination and not a terrorist attack.
Basically the normal was used in an abnormal way. Once it was realized it was countered.
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Jim P. at August 18, 2013 7:22 PM
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