Transportation Security Administration officers give eight-month baby pat-down

[Swagman]

Source: news.com.au

AN eight-month old boy has been subjected to a body pat-down while going through an airport security screening.
The incident has caused outrage in the US after fellow passenger Jacob Jester posted a photograph of the search at Kansas City International Airport on Twitter.

Mr Jester’s photograph - captured on his phone - shows the mother holding the child as two smiling Transportation Security Administration officers search the boy at the security checkpoint.

Mr Jester said he was travelling to Albuquerque when he noticed the woman behind him with a baby about the same age as his son. He had just passed through security when he looked back and saw the baby receiving the pat-down


Read more: http://www.news.com.au/travel/news/transportation-security-administration-officers-give-eight-month-baby-pat-down/story-e6frfq80-1226053973867

[Lint Head]

1. Strangers touching a baby. Couldn't that be something close to pedophilia.

[Bonobo]

2. If Mr. Jester had been caught taking a photo, he would have likely been "detained". nt

[ChairmanAgnostic]

3. Diaper terrorism - the new threat.

News Item:
Toxic baby shit has long been known to turn macho he-men into quivering, spineless, pathetic shadows of their former BMOC selves. from urinary surprises, to green, slimy, monstrous, oozing piles that poisons your lungs and permanently stain your fingers.

Now, after years of research, Al Qaida has perfected the ideal WMD. Bioterrorism from baby shit. If you feed some excess infant the proper amounts of carefully developed pretoxins, the excess infant actually becomes a biological weapons laboratory, excreting deadly gas and semi-solid fluids that kill on contact.

[madrchsod]

11. yup..it`s knocked me on my ass more than a few times!

[No Elephants]

4. The alarm went off. Criminals plant things on babies all the time.

The agents followed procedure.

You can argue about abolishing airport security entirely. But don't let media manipulate you.

[Moonwalk]

20. Agreed! Anyone and everyone who doesn't go through the x-ray machine--

--could be a "mule" for transporting dangerous materials. We either decide that everyone is under suspicion, or we decide that, safe or not, we're putting an end to all this. You can argue whether such searchers are effective (meaning done competently), you can argue whether they're done courteously and well, you can argue whether they're necessary, you an argue whether we should put up with them even if they are effective and necessary.

But you can't scream with outrage if granny get stopped, or the baby gets checked, or the little boy gets checked insisting that this is going too far. You can't. Why not? Because the minute the agents say, 'We won't be checking babies/grannies/little boys" that is when someone is going to say, "Excellent. That's where I can hide what I want to hide. Security won't check the baby or the little boy or the granny."

And you'd better believe that people have and people will use grannies, kids and babies. To smuggle drugs or smuggle bomb material, to smuggle diamonds or money or any other contraband come to that. In the end, it's hypocritical for anyone to scream over any such pat-down unless they (1) object entirely to such pat downs and security measures and want them totally gone, or (2) are protesting to how it was done, not that it was done.

[Demeter]

26. I Have YET to Hear of Any Contraband or Criminal Caught by TSA

Not a one.

End this stupid program.

[jberryhill]

5. Because it is impossible to hide a weapon in a diaper

Never mind that drug smugglers have been doing it for ages.

[Trajan]

22. Criminals stuff drugs up there ass too ...

NOW what is or is not impossible ?

[ixion]

6. At some point, We, the People need to reassert our civil liberties

and tell the TSA they're no longer funded.

[MineralMan]

7. First, you'll have to elect a Congress that would do that.

And you can't do that by staying home on Election day. In fact, you can't do that without working on GOTV campaigns to get liberal voters to the polls.

It's easy to say "We the People," but harder to get the people out to elect lawmakers who will do the things you want.

Hint: You can't do it on DU. You have to do it where you live.

[SemperEadem]

18. well said

the problem we have right now is because a large enough segment of "we the people" sold the rest of "we the people" down the river by electing against their own economic best interests due to "fear". Now they're freaking out because they didn't understand what we all understand: this is about class warfare--between the "demand mores" and the "have nones". The ones they elected are adept at creating distractions to dismantle protections for workers, women's reproductive rights, financial reform and unleash fury amongst the people to keep them riled up and distracted.

[FSogol]

8. There's something in this diaper.....

:shrug:

[OHdem10]

9. While it looks terrible., How many babies have been used by

Drug Trade to hide large amounts of drugs.

Remember the ME Couple with baby who boarded or were
about to board plane in UK with bomb elements hidden
in baby diaper and clothes.

Just commenting, that is all.

[Frances]

10. Have bomb parts been hidden in diapers in the past?

It seems they have.

Should the agents ignore all diapers?

How would you feel if there were bomb parts in the diaper that were assembled enroute to your destination and your plane was blown to bits?

[ChairmanAgnostic]

13. certain GOP senators from the south might object

[frylock]

21. how would you feel if it were your child?

real easy to sit back and admonish peopel for being upset about this when it's not your child going through this humiliating bullshit.

[jberryhill]

24. I've flown with my kids

Never found it to be "humiliating".

"Humiliating" is more like at the first grade spring pageant when your daughter decides to show everyone in the audience her underwear.

[fatbuckel]

12. I was gonna comment but looks like you guys have it under control. Thanx.

[Gormy Cuss]

14. The issue really isn't the pat-down of this baby. It's whether the gate procedures are effective

and necessary and whether they are overreaching in terms of invading personal privacy. The thorough pat-down of the baby has struck a chord.

Most passengers understand the need for security. There was little passenger resistance to fuller security checks based on setting off the magnetometers or, as was the case here, a positive result to an explosives scan. However, the cumulative effect of ratcheting up the screening procedure (removing shoes, jackets, hats, scarves, limiting liquids to 3 oz containers all gathered in a single quart size bag that until recently also had to be on display) has been increasing passenger unease. Now with the growing number of installations of the mandatory "option" of full body imaging OR having someone put his hand in your pants people are finally speaking up.

[L0oniX]

15. Baby bombs ...LOL This country is fucked up.

[jeremyfive]

16. I Won't Fly Anymore.

My flying was discretionary, but flying has become too unpleasant since they threw the baby out with the bathwater. I understand the rest of the world is avoiding U.S. air travel, too.

[iandhr]

17. To borrow a phrase from Lewis Black.

who saw a grandmother in a wheel chair get a pat down.

"If the baby's a terrorist game over."

[indepat]

19. My wife, an 11th-generation-to-these-soils ggrandmother confined to a wheelchair,

was subjected to a twenty-minute search at the Nashville airport three years ago, causing us to miss the early call for seating those needing assistance. This search imo was such massive over-kill that it will forever rank among the most ridiculous sights ever witnessed. :patriot:

[frylock]

23. it's always the same group of authoritarians and cowards condoning this shit

[alarimer]

28. Yes, even so-called liberal condone this bullshit

All in the name of some illusory safety. I dread the day when the next attack happens, as it inevitably will (probably something blown completely out of proportion), because the cowardly cry-babies (including those in this thread) will be shitting their pants (speaking of diapers) and demanding we give up whatever is left of our rights, just so big daddy president can keep us "safe".

Never mind that these methods do not do any good and only provide "security theater". There is no way we will ever bee 100% safe. But the odds of something else happening is actually vanishingly small. But the idiots are okay with strip-searching and fondling babies in the name of "security"

[Demeter]

25. I Hope They Included a Diaper Change As Part of the Service

and I hope it was loaded.

[Frances]

27. My 90 year old mother's purse was examined

when the Xray machine saw something suspicious. She had put her favorite knife to peel peaches in her purse. Mother explained why she had brought the knife and the agent offered to mail it to her. Maybe that's why I don't get so upset about searches.

My brother-in-law was with Mother; he could have been planning to use the knife to subdue the pilot of the plane and could have wreaked havoc. Of course, he was totally innocent and extremely embarrassed, but he too thought the agent behaved very well.

[Demonaut]

29. took eight months to give a pat down?

I'd be pissed too



I know, poorly written header...

[The abyss]

30. "Transportation Security Administration officers"?!?

TSA officers??

These pedophile "officers" have no arrest nor detention powers.

The TSA draws its "assumed" authority from civil statute NOT criminal law. These bozos have no arrest nor detention power, their power lies in the public's willingness to graze contentedly upon the dying blades of grass.

Wake up!

These clowns are NOT certified law enforcement personal, they do not undergo federal, state, county nor city law enforcement accreditation. None of them are recognized as certified law enforcement.

We, the public, are granting them the right to finger f*** babies.