The odds of TSA gropers feeling up the wrong person, and that person going postal, are increasing daily. One of these days we WILL be reading about how somebody went off and wiped out about ten of them. Gover-business media will bemoan the loss of these 'public servants' and vilify the perpetrator precisely according to formula, but Americans will intuitively understand the truth.
When people ask you why TSA perverts from Janet Napolitano on down feel people up and rob them of their basic human dignity at every turn, remember to say "because they can." "Because we let them." This/these will be the correct answer(s). When a bully punches you in the face and asks the ages old question "what are you gonna do about it, punk," if your answer is 'nothing' you can expect more of the same.
TSA Agents Allegedly Strip-Search Woman, Fiddle with Feeding Tube
Quietman ~PWCM~JLA
2012/07/19 17:54:37
A North Texas man says he is outraged that airport security agents at Dallas Love Field strip-searched his wife and handled her feeding tube.
Melinda Deaton has a four-inch medical tube sticking out of her stomach. The medically implanted tube is needed for treatment after complications with a gastric bypass surgery.
Deaton frequently flies from Dallas to Minneapolis for treatment at the Mayo Clinic. She said Transportation Security Administration agents strip-searched her and touched her feeding tube Wednesday morning when she was on her way to three days of treatment.
Her husband, John Deaton, said the incident was unusual.
"They will see it on their screens, ask her what it is, she'd identify it, they may pat it on the outside of her clothing, accept it and go on," he said.
But that didn't happen Wednesday morning.
Even though she was wearing a medical bracelet with a USB drive on it that contained notes from her doctor, TSA agents still searched her.
"They had physically stripped her and saw the tube coming out of her stomach, and they decided that they needed to check it for explosives, so they had to physically handle the tube," John Deaton said.
Besides handling the tube, agents swabbed it for bomb-making material, Melinda Deaton said. Her husband said it put his wife at risk of infection.
"Any time you put a harsh substance on it, you run the risk of contamination," he said. "They put stuff on there that we don't know what it is and identify. She has a weak immune system as part of her medical condition, and it can be very fatal to her."
TSA spokesman Luis Casanova would not comment on what chemicals were on the swabs but did say that touching the device is not supposed to happen.
Read More: http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/TSA-Agents-Allege...
Top Opinion
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Nimitz 2012/07/19 19:23:28
Obama or Romney won't do it.
Elect Ron Paul 2012!
I would also like to know the TSA's policy on indwelling caths. Do they tell their agents to do this? If they do, then all people entering the airport should be made aware that the agent is not qualified to touch any indwelling object in a patient so that they can choose to leave the airport. What next? Will the muffler shop be doing your colonoscopy?
BTW...how many women with caths have been hiding bombs in their stomachs? Is it a few, a dozen..........what is the number? Maybe Big Sis has that info.
Those TSA agents are sure a randy bunch!
When people ask you why TSA perverts from Janet Napolitano on down feel people up and rob them of their basic human dignity at every turn, remember to say "because they can." "Because we let them." This/these will be the correct answer(s). When a bully punches you in the face and asks the ages old question "what are you gonna do about it, punk," if your answer is 'nothing' you can expect more of the same.