Fighting TSA Harassment of Disabled Travelers

An anonymous reader writes "A man with a neurological disorder is currently pushing the TSA to release a full list of its policies and procedures after a series of incidents in which he was harassed while trying to fly. His condition requires medical liquids and causes episodic muteness, and the TSA makes his encounters very difficult. From January: 'Boston Logan TSA conducted an illegal search of my xray-cleared documents (probably motivated either by my opting out or by my use of sign language to communicate). They refused to give me access to the pen and paper that I needed to communicate. Eventually they gave it to me, but then they took it away in direct retaliation for my using it to quote US v Davis and protest their illegal search (thereby literally depriving me of speech). They illegally detained me for about an hour on spurious, law enforcement motivated grounds (illegal under Davis, Aukai, Fofana, Bierfeldt, etc). ... TSA has refused to comply with the ADA grievance process; they are over a month beyond the statutory mandate for issuing a written determination.'"

Comments

Re:Perhaps this is the intent, preventing expats

[theshowmecanuck]

Don't have to consider. It's pretty well known. Mind you, they probably have as many people traveling to other countries as people from Europe visiting other regions (if you look at the 'countries' of Europe being akin to 'states' in the U.S.). Compare apples to apples. The U.S. is as big or bigger than Europe and has as many or more people. Traveling between states there is the almost the same as Europeans traveling between countries. Certainly the distances are the same and often more. Average Europeans I am sure don't look beyond Europe since it doesn't affect them; the same reason many Americans don't pay attention to what happens outside America.

Blogs as News?

[stevez67]

This is from someone's blog, not a reputable news source with fact checking. He's just another troll trying to get 15 minutes of fame to try to drum up his next consulting job.

Re:My answer

[Cwix]

You are an idiot.

This fight has been waged on Slashdot before, the side you are taking lost. The sad part is the only reason you would phrase it that way would be to cause confusion, and piss off your listeners. I can only assume that you are related to either Rush Limbaugh, or Glenn Beck.