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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 can think of some cultures that wouldn't hesitate to have child suicide bombers.
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These TSA guys are simply doing their jobs. There's no reason to be upset at them. As for patting down a child, as wrong as it may seem, it has to me done. There's plenty of sick people who would use children to hide things. The TSA are in the right here, not a real story at all.
How you get there is your problem. If you want to get on a commercial flight in the US to get to Hawaii then current laws compel you to submit to a security screening.
The are other methods of getting to Hawaii. If they happen to be unattractive or impractical that is unfortunate, but is ultimately your problem.
You have no inherent inalienable right to board somebody else's airplane.
Screaming brats don't take any special triggers to scream. Must be a slow news day.
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I, for one, feel much safer knowing the TSA is protecting us from impressionable minds warped by too much Dora the Explorer.
That is a typical idiot media response. Like what happen or not, save the idiotic hyperbole for yourself in the mirror.
You think this is all about a parent not controlling their kid? So next time I see kids running rampant in the mall I should feel free to have a grope? Why can't you sheep all just find a field somewhere and stop ruining it for the rest of us?
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SECURITY BROADWAY, Iron Curtain, Wednesday — In the wake of Transport Security Administration staff forcing a "full pat-down" on a three-year-old child, Catholic priests have been clamouring to work for the government department.
The TSA, which has apprehended only slightly less than one terrorist in its nine years of operation, welcomed the new recruits to the fold. "We need people with experience in dealing with young people," said TSA head John Pistole, "in telling people what to do and in making the innocent feel guilty. And the enthusiasm! They're not your typical bored minimum-wager, no way! Also, they have better uniforms."
Mr Pistole reiterated the patriotic duty that drives the TSA in their work. "Fondling little girls' genitals is vital to protecting America from TERRORISTS. Remember: if TSA staff can't finger your daughter, the TERRORISTS have won!" He then strangled a kitten for our photographer.
Cardinal Bernard Law returned to America from the Vatican especially for the opportunity to create government-funded child pornography with the new "naked" scanners. "It's top quality stuff, too. The tears, the pain — the things that make this sort of thing really worthwhile."
"They were nasty men," said three-year-old TSA molestee Mandy Simon. "But it clearly demonstrates the iron necessity of the holy Jihadic destruction of the West. Allahu akbar! Daddy? I done a boo-boo."
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"Finger raped?" They patted her down. Outside her clothes. Like everyone else.
I didn't fail to notice how she takes a moment to point out that she's a "high profile blogger and author" -- no way she's crying wolf to bump book sales, eh?