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June 26, 2011 7:50 PM   Subscribe

After patting down infants, and citizens in wheelchairs, the TSA has now performed a patdown on 95 year old cancer patient. They maintain it was also necessary to force her to remove her adult diaper.
posted by notion (16 comments total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: this really seems like TSA SUCKS AMIRITE and while yes, they do suck, this is just more TSA outrage without anything really to talk about over all the other TSA threads. Maybe try to make a post that is a little more ... meaty? -- jessamyn



 
You know what kills a lot more people than terrorism?
posted by furiousxgeorge at 7:55 PM on June 26, 2011 [1 favorite]


that is disgraceful,
posted by kuatto at 7:55 PM on June 26, 2011


It really, really bums me out that we're at a place where I thought "Oh, win, they let her go to the bathroom and take it off privately."

Like being allowed to disrobe privately before being searched is some really awesome thing. Fucking appalling.
posted by MeghanC at 7:56 PM on June 26, 2011 [3 favorites]


The alternative being that adult diapers are never checked, and known to never be checked?
posted by kafziel at 8:01 PM on June 26, 2011


Way to fight terrorism by terrorizing a 95 year old woman, TSA.
posted by CrazyLemonade at 8:04 PM on June 26, 2011


On one hand, it's a frickin' 95 year old lady who is battling cancer. On the other hand, they're being really good at showing the public that these "enhanced interrogation patdown" techniques aren't driven by racial profiling.

On the third hand, what is any of this really proving? Other countries have visibly armed military presence in their airports, and in the US (and the UK, citing alliance with the US), we can only bring small quantities of liquids on board. Has the US really made the rest of the world hate them so much?
posted by filthy light thief at 8:04 PM on June 26, 2011


The alternative being that adult diapers are never checked, and known to never be checked?
Yes. Just as it was from 1901 to 2001.
posted by -1 at 8:05 PM on June 26, 2011 [5 favorites]


There's something to be said for highly trained professionals.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 8:06 PM on June 26, 2011


I am so sick of this. We deemed it necessary after 9/11 to do this kind of shit, and for eight years (okay, seven and a half) while GWB was in the White House we were constantly told that "FREEDOM ISN'T FREE" and other even less-sensical things, but ever since a (black!) Democrat got in the TSA has been a complete right-wing punchline to the point where you can actually hear the Usual Suspects wetting their pants every time the TSA is pretty much forced to do what they say they are going to do.

Knock it off, assholes! No, not you people doing your jobs - the ones gleefully pointing out EVERY TIME THEY DO THEIR JOB AND THAT THEY DON'T LIKE IT!!!!
posted by Curious Artificer at 8:07 PM on June 26, 2011


Whoo, boy.
posted by tumid dahlia at 8:08 PM on June 26, 2011


Every time we hear about another outrageous event like this, I wonder if now, FINALLY, common sense will step in and end this security theatre vaudeville...
posted by OneMonkeysUncle at 8:09 PM on June 26, 2011 [2 favorites]


It's astonishing how something so persistently invasive, universally hated, and demonstrably ineffective as the TSA continues its march onward as if its necessity was some obvious universal truth. Why does a world where FUD is eradicated once it's exposed as such only exist in fiction? It's like the government has its fingers in its ears, shouting "I can't hear you" when it's been repeatedly shown to have taken a ridiculous, and I'd say downright evil, position with this unbelievably long-lived "war" on yet another nebulous concept. And the sad thing is, I can't find any hope anywhere of it ever reversing direction.
posted by The Winsome Parker Lewis at 8:10 PM on June 26, 2011 [2 favorites]


Please let it not be Florida, please let it not be Flori-

DAMN IT.
posted by misha at 8:12 PM on June 26, 2011


The alternative being that adult diapers are never checked, and known to never be checked?

Yeah. Because it's better to exchange that tiny, tiny, tiny increased chance that a terrorist will bomb a plane instead of a shopping mall, for a society with more freedom and dignity.

"They hate our freedom." Indeed. Almost as much as the cowards who are so terrified they have to intrusively search wheelchair-bound old women seem to hate it.
posted by tyllwin at 8:14 PM on June 26, 2011 [1 favorite]


"Every traveler is a critical partner in TSA's efforts to keep our skies safe," Administrator John Pistole, who ordered the new approach, said last fall. "And I know and appreciate that the vast majority of Americans recognize and respect the important work we do."

Texas "anti-groping" TSA bill up for vote tomorrow. (Previously)

Four arguments for the elimination of the TSA.

The alternative being that adult diapers are never checked, and known to never be checked?

*Sigh.* So you think checking for the boogeyman in adult diapers is sensible and justified. Meanwhile, you have a higher probability of being killed by a police officer than by al-qaeda. I am sick and tired of living in this surrealist satire of a "free" nation. We used to have liberties in this country but we took them for granted, and like a muscle what we neglected to exercise they have atrophied and withered away.
posted by thescientificmethhead at 8:14 PM on June 26, 2011 [1 favorite]


US gun-lovers dribble over the second amendment, proclaiming the necessaity of pervasive weapons ownership to resist tyranny.

This is it. This is what tyranny looks like. Where's the NRA?
posted by rodgerd at 8:14 PM on June 26, 2011


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