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TSA Pats Down 3-Year-Old
3-year-old Mandy Simon started crying when her teddy bear had to go through the X-ray machine at airport security in Chattanooga, Tenn. She was so upset that she refused to go calmly through the metal detector, setting it off twice. Agents then informed her parents that she "must be hand-searched." The subsequent TSA employee pat down of the screaming child was captured by her father, who happens to be a reporter, on his cell phone. The video have left some questioning why better procedures for children aren't in place. I, for one, feel much safer knowing the TSA is protecting us from impressionable minds warped by too much Dora the Explorer.
I'm sure we all know why the video was taken down.
*tinfoil hat on* The TSA doesn't need a video of a 3 year old girl being molested at a security check point out there for millions to see. That would completely discredit much their initial "Think of the children" rhetoric they were spouting for this kind of crap in the first place. Most likely the video alone would lead to much of the population questioning the TSA. *tinfoil hat off*