Have you seen the youtube video of the news reporter traveling to Disney with his wife and three yr old daughter ? You would not be making so many jokes if you heard the sheer terror in the little girls voice as she screamed " STOP touching me ! DON't do that ....STOP " ......I can not imagine doing that to a child . Her teddy bear had been taken from her to go through xray ,which made her cry . Because she was crying and throwing a tantrum the metal scan went off (maybe she touched the sides ) because it went off she had to be patted down and wanded . Yeah she was an obvious threat to my flying safety ...I am sure . meanwhile since they are so busy with this fiasco how many real threats were missed .
Freakin common sense is not being used . Maybe TSA will give them a course on that for their employees.
It is a huge problem that these people selected to do scanning and searches are NOT well trained in using common sense. News reports are now showing many cases of "OOps our agent was not trained effectivally in handling this situation " How comforting ....not .
The 71 yr old man that told them he had a knee replacement ,he was man handled and ultimately humiliated when the TSA agent pulled on his pants during the pat down causing them to fall to the floor in front of everyone .
Or the four yr old disabled child forced to remove his leg braces and made to try to walk w/o them even though his parents told the agents this was not possible for him to do comfortably w/o support .
If we allow this conduct to continue unchecked how far will it go ? How much will we give up ?
Benjamin Franklin : "Those who would give up essential Liberty ,in order to purchase temporary safety,deserve neither Liberty or safety " ...something to consider
