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Women Arrested For Refusing TSA Search of Children

CelticWhisper writes "A Tennessee mother was arrested for refusing to allow TSA screening clerks to subject her child to a body scan or patdown. This comes in the wake of a promise by the TSA Administrator to make repeated attempts at non-physical screening of children, after which another video of a child patdown surfaced. This event may signify a tipping point in the public's willingness to tolerate invasive and inappropriate security procedures at airports."

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  1. Re:Uhh... by MightyYar · · Score: 0, Troll

    You're right. Only good looking, smart people with tech skills deserve to have their rights respected.

    She just looks like the people who yell at the cashiers at Wal-Mart, that's all.

    PS - is your sig from the blurb to a low budget gay porno or what?

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  2. Re:Not fear - disgust by DJRumpy · · Score: 1, Troll

    Considering they use the back of their hands, it wouldn't call it 'groping'. The media likes to incite the locals with such terminology but the pat downs are pretty benign. In this case she simply didn't want to put her child through the scanner. As far as I can tell from TFA, she never even got to the point where they offered to do a pat down instead.