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| -85-year-old says she was strip searched at JFK |
Judi Lynn |
Dec-03-11 02:21 PM |
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Wow. How have we fallen into this weird universe. It seems like |
The Wielding Truth |
Dec-03-11 02:26 PM |
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Yes |
Enthusiast |
Dec-04-11 03:56 AM |
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How? Fear. People are so afraid of everything nowadays. |
krabigirl |
Dec-04-11 01:15 PM |
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That was criminal behavior on the part of the TSA. Period. n/t |
CaliforniaPeggy |
Dec-03-11 02:28 PM |
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Unless the story is BS |
oberliner |
Dec-03-11 02:40 PM |
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... Transportation Security Administration said in a statement Saturday that no strip search was |
struggle4progress |
Dec-04-11 01:01 PM |
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Ahhh...so she was playing the "Granny card" because Sonny didn't get her to the |
MADem |
Dec-04-11 01:17 PM |
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Granny card right, son is an arse |
flpab |
Dec-05-11 05:44 AM |
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Seriously - it wasn't the fault of TSA that she missed the flight - |
hedgehog |
Dec-03-11 02:29 PM |
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The point is that even a pat down of an 85 year old is absurd. |
Marnie |
Dec-03-11 08:07 PM |
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Do you support profiling passengers based on age? |
oberliner |
Dec-04-11 09:15 AM |
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wheels up time is not boarding time people |
flpab |
Dec-05-11 05:46 AM |
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I thought the headline said "85 year old says she was stripped searched by JFK" |
deutsey |
Dec-03-11 02:29 PM |
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The age is about right--if that was Chapter One of her memoirs! nt |
MADem |
Dec-03-11 02:58 PM |
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Ow. |
Jackpine Radical |
Dec-04-11 12:10 PM |
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lol |
dipsydoodle |
Dec-04-11 12:35 PM |
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Once I was injured and needed a wheelchair to go throught |
BlueToTheBone |
Dec-03-11 02:36 PM |
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Extraordinarily disturbing that the administration would allow such blatant violations of |
indepat |
Dec-03-11 02:43 PM |
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see... |
shanti |
Dec-06-11 02:07 AM |
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Don't complain |
JJW |
Dec-03-11 02:48 PM |
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LOL |
gtar100 |
Dec-03-11 04:14 PM |
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If she had been "profiled" this never would have happened to her. |
MADem |
Dec-03-11 02:55 PM |
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She WAS profiled. Asking not to go through the scanner put her in a suspicious category.. |
No Elephants |
Dec-04-11 03:06 AM |
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What I am saying, though, is that if she had been profiled in the ILLEGAL fashion, |
MADem |
Dec-04-11 06:23 AM |
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Sorry, what you call being "honest here," I call several other things, none of which are positive. |
No Elephants |
Dec-04-11 06:19 PM |
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I am gobsmacked myself, because you spent all that effort yelling at me |
MADem |
Dec-04-11 08:09 PM |
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Lol, exerting constitutional rights now makes one suspicious. Awesome. Nt |
krabigirl |
Dec-04-11 01:17 PM |
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IMO we should all put up with it rather than presume |
treestar |
Dec-04-11 01:09 PM |
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Oh, profiling--the illegal kind that they use in Israel and elsewhere--goes way beyond that. |
MADem |
Dec-04-11 01:26 PM |
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Where does this info come from? |
treestar |
Dec-04-11 02:28 PM |
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You mean the datamining? |
MADem |
Dec-04-11 02:33 PM |
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racial profiling is discrimination and we shouldn't take tips from countries |
La Lioness Priyanka |
Dec-05-11 04:19 PM |
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I've seen shocking stuff... |
SoapBox |
Dec-03-11 03:11 PM |
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to flight attendant |
flpab |
Dec-04-11 06:15 AM |
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It sounds like the govt is trying to kill the airline industry. nt |
valerief |
Dec-03-11 03:35 PM |
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TSA and their corporate backers could really give a shit. |
gtar100 |
Dec-03-11 04:10 PM |
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Pathetic ...like scared little rats ...fear the terrorist ....fuck that fear shit! ... |
L0oniX |
Dec-03-11 04:48 PM |
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+1 |
Dawson Leery |
Dec-03-11 06:58 PM |
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+1, completely agree. |
krabigirl |
Dec-04-11 01:18 PM |
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So, how many terrorist plots have been interrupted by TSA? |
HereSince1628 |
Dec-03-11 04:51 PM |
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Not plots as such, but |
hedgehog |
Dec-04-11 02:41 PM |
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Remarkably consistent numbers |
HereSince1628 |
Dec-04-11 03:32 PM |
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it's texas |
pitohui |
Dec-04-11 05:51 PM |
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Yes, but it's remarkably consistent for 'rare' events |
HereSince1628 |
Dec-05-11 06:25 AM |
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It makes perfect sense actually. If you have say, 20 guns among |
hedgehog |
Dec-05-11 08:18 AM |
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I think America has gone into Paranoid Schizophrenia |
lovuian |
Dec-03-11 05:19 PM |
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lovuian |
Diclotican |
Dec-04-11 05:17 AM |
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lovuian |
Diclotican |
Dec-04-11 05:18 AM |
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diclotican, come visit, don't let exaggerations stop you! |
pitohui |
Dec-04-11 05:59 PM |
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pitohui |
Diclotican |
Dec-05-11 06:50 AM |
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Dioclotcan you get it |
lovuian |
Dec-05-11 11:41 PM |
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I think Paranoid Schizophrenics are more sane |
bloom |
Dec-04-11 09:54 AM |
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Which is why I don't fly. |
SavWriter |
Dec-03-11 07:35 PM |
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TSA victims unite! nt |
kgnu_fan |
Dec-03-11 09:03 PM |
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How believable is this story? |
oberliner |
Dec-03-11 09:24 PM |
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At some point, the vast number of people who keep complaining |
ThomCat |
Dec-03-11 11:52 PM |
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That is true |
oberliner |
Dec-04-11 04:25 AM |
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It is also possible she is telling the absolute truth. |
ThomCat |
Dec-04-11 08:23 PM |
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TSA is Government. Would you like a short list of Government |
Downwinder |
Dec-04-11 03:15 AM |
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There is a pretty long list of random people making stuff up as well |
oberliner |
Dec-04-11 04:23 AM |
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correct |
flpab |
Dec-04-11 06:19 AM |
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If her mom was dying, wouldn't the ticket be recently bought? |
glowing |
Dec-04-11 06:53 AM |
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correct but |
flpab |
Dec-05-11 05:51 AM |
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Dec-04-11 07:26 AM |
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I see your post downthread as well |
oberliner |
Dec-04-11 09:13 AM |
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There is the preconceived desire to find the TSA wrong |
treestar |
Dec-04-11 01:12 PM |
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the story is not even remotely believable |
pitohui |
Dec-04-11 06:02 PM |
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Is this acceptable so long as it's done for our "safety"? n/t |
The Northerner |
Dec-04-11 02:49 AM |
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If you were innocent, you wouldn't even ask that question. TERRA! TERRA! TERRA! |
No Elephants |
Dec-04-11 03:26 AM |
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BS on so many things... |
flpab |
Dec-04-11 06:13 AM |
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Hey, not to thread hijack--for whom can I get a gate pass? |
MADem |
Dec-04-11 06:31 AM |
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How To Get a Gate Pass at the Airport |
oberliner |
Dec-04-11 09:12 AM |
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I will just have to try for the "slightly different rules" scenario, then. |
MADem |
Dec-04-11 11:34 AM |
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I don't think special accomodations are made for rubes |
oberliner |
Dec-04-11 12:42 PM |
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I'm of the "If you don't ask, you're sure not to get" school of thought. |
MADem |
Dec-04-11 01:11 PM |
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Alien |
demicritic |
Dec-04-11 07:05 AM |
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Must be a |
femrap |
Dec-04-11 12:58 PM |
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At what age should one be exempt? |
treestar |
Dec-04-11 01:08 PM |
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Enhanced patdowns are punitive. They are intended to be so unpleasant that |
tblue37 |
Dec-04-11 01:48 PM |
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How does TSA know that there was not strip search? |
LisaL |
Dec-04-11 03:37 PM |
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that what she SAYS, all right |
pitohui |
Dec-04-11 05:44 PM |
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this is just stupid. But then I was groped by TSA when accompanied by my sis-in-law & two teenagers |
wordpix |
Dec-04-11 08:08 PM |
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so TSA should only grope people who look atypically american? |
La Lioness Priyanka |
Dec-05-11 04:14 PM |
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Dec-04-11 08:27 PM |
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Micro-infringements> |
survivorista |
Dec-06-11 01:54 AM |
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