I'm surprised I don't see articles about someone punching a TSA agent for overly frisking their kid.

More of those assholes need to get knocked out from under their hat to instill some manners.

This is just madness.

"Yes, I understand that TSA is in charge of national security and there's all these threats. [But] for her to be singled out, it's crazy."

No. You either understand why they're there and know exactly why your child is being "singled out" or you don't agree with it at all because you know that it is an abusive over-reach from a paranoid government. You don't get to allow them to point fingers elsewhere and not expect that those fingers would eventually point at you.

Gig103: I'm so sick of the TSA. I'm Just back from Singapore, a nation with a lot of strict laws, but yet it took returning to the US and going through a TSA grope to feel like I was in a police state.

Well, it's a little unfair to use Singapore as an example. They're all as mad as hatters there.

If you put it to a nationwide vote to keep funding or disband the TSA I think there are enough paranoid people to want to keep them dispite their never actually stopping terrorists.

scottydoesntknow: MaudlinMutantMollusk: scottydoesntknow: SkinnyHead: Instead of searching disabled children who obviously pose no threat, why don't they focus on passengers who actually fit the profile of a terrorist?

Would you describe the profile of a terrorist and how to identify them?

brown

That may work. Have them start profiling all brown people, end up with a massive discrimination lawsuit, and force the shutdown of TSA due to money/legal troubles.

Ssshhhhh. He's trying to get SkinnyHead off on a tear. Wait for the magic.

It is only the beginning...


//actually, not kidding. The TSA is expanding

God DAMN, I feel so much safer now.

USA. Fark yeah!

SkinnyHead: Instead of searching disabled children who obviously pose no threat, why don't they focus on passengers who actually fit the profile of a terrorist?

Because then they'll actively look to recruit Caucasians.

it was a nice try on the race card, and I've seen your work before.

You're better than this.

/oblig

Having just recently flown and having a 5 year old in tow, the TSA worried me. Luckily for us the TSA employees were the good ones, or at least we were there at the good times.

Anyone 12 and younger don't need to take their shoes off anymore, my daughter actually was hoping to do that, and was disappointed. Weird kid. :)

But nobody touched her, she was pretty much ignored. While everyone in line hates it, nobody was biatchy or complaining.

So it's not always bad. more annoying than anything.

But issues like this, frisking a kid, employees should be written up and sent off to the checked baggage scanner.

Gig103: FirstNationalBastard: Well, you got what you wanted, America.

Feeling safer yet?

Bin Laden won. It's been a decade and he died, but the PATRIOT Act and TSA live on and terrorize our national.

My national remains stoically unperturbed.

The My Little Pony Killer: "Yes, I understand that TSA is in charge of national security and there's all these threats. [But] for her to be singled out, it's crazy."

No. You either understand why they're there and know exactly why your child is being "singled out" or you don't agree with it at all because you know that it is an abusive over-reach from a paranoid government. You don't get to allow them to point fingers elsewhere and not expect that those fingers would eventually point at you.

Also, I'm pretty sure that the TSA isn't "in charge of national security". They're basically bouncers.

I'd love to see an airport cop (someone with actual arresting authority) handcuff a TSA agent and charge them with child molestation.

Her family reportedly requests that agents on hand take the time to introduce themselves to her.

sounds like the tsa and the family was doing a verbal pushing match and the tsa won. if the parents were nasty as hell i wouldn't have taken the time to introduce myself to the kid because the parents told me too. i'm in charge not the parents.and no i'm not with the tsa. i'm the passenger in back of these asshats.

pudding7: I don't understand these "I missed my flight because of the TSA!" stories. Specifically how did the extra 3 minutes of an enhanced pat-down cause them to miss their flight?

It's not the ones who get a routine search that have a problem. It's the ones who get taken to another room to wait for a supervisor to pat down their terrified 4 year old that have problems.

Cagey B: Gig103: I'm so sick of the TSA. I'm Just back from Singapore, a nation with a lot of strict laws, but yet it took returning to the US and going through a TSA grope to feel like I was in a police state.

Well, it's a little unfair to use Singapore as an example. They're all as mad as hatters there.

FTFY

Yes. The TSA are behaving in a ridiculous manner here.

FTFA: "for her to be singled out, it's crazy" - she wasn't singled out, everyone has to be screened but she can't be screened via metal detector so she has to be patted down like everybody else who can't be screened via metal detectors. Yes, the rules are silly, but she wasn't singled out. You should be pleased that your disabled daughter has been treated in the same way as any other person and NOT singled out.

However, if the difference between catching your flight and missing your flight is the additional 3-5 minutes required for a pat-down then you are a screaming idiot and have not left enough time to get to your flight.

Doubly so with kids. Allow extra time.

I fly all the time and even though I KNOW I will be sitting on my fat arse for 90 minutes at the airport 90% of the time I STILL aim to get to the airport 2 or 3 hours early for each flight so that I don't miss that one flight where traffic is bad and the screeners decide to unpack all my luggage and go through it for an hour.

"Those who would give up liberty for security DESERVE NEITHER"

"Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults.
Poor Richard's Almanack (1756)

/Ben Franklin
//do MF'ers even bother to learn history anymore? There is no "national identity" anymore, all because of a couple planes and buildings. We lost our G.D. minds, really. Should have SPOKEN UP EARLIER! We're screwed, forget about "freedom" it's an old tagline like Wal-Mart's "Made in the USA!" propaganda from the 90's. buh bye!

What did airport security in the US do prior to 9/11 with regards to kids?

/Genuinely curious
//Did they get searched?
///If so, why is it a big deal now all of a sudden?

BunkoSquad: Cagey B: Well, it's a little unfair to use Singapore as an example. They're all as mad as hatters there.

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

So take this ring.

Put together a world-wide ban on guns. Let everyone carry around swords. Just swords, no explosives, no firearms or incendiaries, just swords.

Let people bring as many swords as they want onto the plane. No one wants to get into a swordfight that they don't have to get into. Problem solved.

Getting killed by a sword is way more daunting than a bomb or gun.

BRING BACK SWORDS

Hershey Highway Patrol: I'm surprised I don't see articles about someone punching a TSA agent for overly frisking their kid.

That would be a great way to get tased, beaten and arrested for international superterrorism.

That said, it would certainly be cathartic to see.