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In reply to the discussion: Family Misses Flight After TSA Gives Pat-Down To Girl With Cerebral Palsy [View all]lovuian
(19,362 posts)77. The TSA is only making the anger swell in the people
The anger will build and build
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rayofreason
Apr 2012
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She would have to be able to stand with her hands up in the air to go through one of those.
LisaL
Apr 2012
#9
$8 an hour is no excuse. Who hired them? Who in authority will not hold them accountable?
AnotherMcIntosh
Apr 2012
#17
I have travelled with people who need wheelchairs and they give them the twice-over, too.
MADem
Apr 2012
#24
It's gotten way out of hand. Just to go into the court house, I have to go through
1monster
Apr 2012
#26
As far as I can tell all they've done is finally allow us to take some water on board
HotRodTuna
Apr 2012
#29
Then that just proves they're lead-brained idiots that have no business screening us.
HotRodTuna
Apr 2012
#31
A crippled child, harassed by uniformed thugs working for the Orwellian-named
sabrina 1
Apr 2012
#49
If you call the airline before hand they probably would have advised the TSA
cstanleytech
Apr 2012
#54
This isnt about "clout" to get a freebie to bypass TSA its about letting them know in advance
cstanleytech
Apr 2012
#61
Customs. Checking people's bags to make sure we weren't bringing in plants from other countries.
yardwork
Apr 2012
#72
This is outrageous. We're going to look back at this decade on things like this with horror that
Honeycombe8
Apr 2012
#16
waste of money - all theater and does not make us safer - worse waste of tax dollars for illusions
2Design
Apr 2012
#19
You want one solution? Each time this happens, fire the person at the top. Sooner or later, one of
AnotherMcIntosh
Apr 2012
#20
If you could post a more stupid question, and a more stupid response, I don't know what it could be.
AnotherMcIntosh
Apr 2012
#58
Obviously, many people just can't "Stop Flying" , so that is no solution, and obviously
crunch60
Apr 2012
#67
I did stop flying. When going to the airport feels like entering a prison...
Comrade Grumpy
Apr 2012
#48
When the TSAs gave Joe Foss a hard time, as well as the pilots who going to fly the planes,
AnotherMcIntosh
Apr 2012
#59
Incidents like this are by design. It's coercive conditioning of the populace to accept tyranny.
backscatter712
Apr 2012
#41