Criminal Front Group aka. The TSA Still Groping Children

[Zero Sum 305]

What if the kid's parents put something inside the child's pants that would set off alarms? Is context so lacking from hysterical closed-mindedness that maybe there was an actual reason to check?

I too would be uncomfortable by a pat down of a child... but remember that is the alternative to getting imaged. Your choice.

More unsubstantiated stupidity here.

[The Dude 206]

What if the kid's parents put something inside the child's pants that would set off alarms? Is context so lacking from hysterical closed-mindedness that maybe there was an actual reason to check?

I too would be uncomfortable by a pat down of a child... but remember that is the alternative to getting imaged. Your choice.

More unsubstantiated stupidity here.

Parents using small children to smuggle illegal items, or as a means of shoplifting is nothing new. It's a horrible situation, but it's not like we can rely on the industry to adequately regulate itself.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Yet another reference to the Third Reich!? I'm sure the article is very interesting, but it's impossible to take seriously when Hitler et al are being invoked in the context of transport security.

[Zero Sum 305]

Yet another reference to the Third Reich!? I'm sure the article is very interesting, but it's impossible to take seriously when Hitler et al are being invoked in the context of transport security.

While perhaps more 'accurate' Nazi references in privacy cases, attacks on minority groups, etc are often overlooked by these same kernels of 'wisdom' and deference is claimed in a 'that's they way life is- deal with it' quip. Or the ones I've seen here... liberals profiteering from illegal alien slaves and bigots complaining that anti-bigotry is bigotry itself as if it were a bad thing. There are some real crazy people everywhere it seems, and people that fall for that logic really deserve PT Barnum's 'a fool is born every minute' line.

[Ban Hammer 14,573]

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – A Kentucky couple said Wednesday that they want the Transportation Security Administration to change how it screens children after their 6-year-old daughter was frisked at the New Orleans airport.

Selena Drexel told ABC's "Good Morning America" the family was returning home from a vacation earlier this month when their daughter Anna was selected for a pat-down.

The couple posted a video of the search on YouTube. It shows a TSA agent patting down the child and explaining the procedure to the girl and her parents. The screener says that she will use the back of her hands on sensitive areas and will "put my hand in the waistband."

The girl's father, Todd Drexel, says Anna was confused by the search and started crying afterward because she thought she'd done something wrong.

Selena Drexel says such searches are inappropriate for children because they're usually told not to let adults touch them in sensitive areas. She said she posted the video because she "had a very bad feeling that what happened was wrong."

In a statement, the Transportation Security Administration says the officer followed proper procedure but that the agency is reviewing its screening policies for "low-risk populations, such as young passengers." The statement says the agency is exploring ways to "move beyond a one-size fits all system."

TSA screeners are instructed to use a "modified" pat down for children 12 and younger, according to the agency's website.

A congressman whose subcommittee oversees national security issues said he was "personally outraged and disgusted" over the security pat-down.

"This conduct is in clear violation of TSA's explicit policy not to conduct thorough pat-downs on children under the age of 13," Rep. Jason Chaffetz, of Utah, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on National Security, said in a statement Wednesday.

Jennifer Mitchell, a child safety advocate, said after viewing the YouTube video that the pat-down seemed "a little invasive."

"This is a hard issue because we have national security on one hand... and children's safety on the other," said Mitchell, co-president of Child Lures Prevention, a Shelburne, Vt., organization that works to prevent crimes against children.

Mitchell said she knows families who have declined to fly because they don't want their children frisked. She recommended that parents tell children before going to the airport that they may get a pat-down.

But children should be told "the only reason it would be allowed is the parents are right there, the clothes are not being removed, the parents are watching to make sure it's done ok," Mitchell said.

Martin Macpherson, the director of the London-based Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers, said he is not aware of instances when terrorists have used children as young as six in an attack.

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[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

While perhaps more 'accurate' Nazi references in privacy cases, attacks on minority groups, etc are often overlooked by these same kernels of 'wisdom' and deference is claimed in a 'that's they way life is- deal with it' quip. Or the ones I've seen here... liberals profiteering from illegal alien slaves and bigots complaining that anti-bigotry is bigotry itself as if it were a bad thing. There are some real crazy people everywhere it seems, and people that fall for that logic really deserve PT Barnum's 'a fool is born every minute' line.

Yeah - this board can be a case study in Orwellian concepts, at times.