"Breast cancer patient: TSA pat-down was ‘humiliating’"

[in_cog_ni_to]

This shit has got to stop!


The Transportation Security Administration has apologized for an incident in which a breast cancer patient was subjected to a TSA pat-down that she says she found "insulting" and "humiliating."

Lori Dorn wrote about the experience on her blog. She described how, after walking through an image scanner at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport, she was asked by a TSA agent to step aside to have her breasts examined.

"I explained to the agent that I was a breast cancer patient and had a bilateral mastectomy in April and had tissue expanders put in to make way for reconstruction at a later date," Dorn wrote. She said she explained that because of this, she was not comfortable having her breasts touched.

Dorn asked the agent if she could retrieve a medical card from her pocket which described the expanders and included contact information for her doctor. But the agent called over a supervisor who denied the request, and said the breast exam had to take place.<snip>

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Breast-Cancer-Patient-Humiliating-Pat-Down-JFK-Lori-Dorn-131010573.html

[ixion]

1. defund and disband the TSA,

and DHS while we're at it.

[DFW]

2. Power-drunk, under-trained and under-educated

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3LNxvG1qQM

Some of these people don't even have the demeanor to be writing parking tickets. Security, my ass.

[peace13]

3. To think that this woman had to be touched by the dirty gloves of TSA...

breaks my heart!

[sakabatou]

4. *facepalm*

[DainBramaged]

5. As a result of this occurrence, we will be looking at refreshing some training

Fire the fucking perverts and then the bullshit stops.

[qanda]

6. I was in the airport last week and there was an adult guy in a wheelchair

He was clearly deformed and seemed mentally disabled. His limbs were contorted and the look on his face just made me feel all the compassion I could muster for him but a TSA agent had him pulled aside and with the blue gloves they were going all over his body. I wanted to scream! Is this really what we have become? Just sad...

[ixion]

7. "Is this really what we have become?" At the moment, yes it is.

And it needs to change.

[seabeyond]

12. Is this really what we have become? say it again. i hold only contempt for those that excuse,

justify, validate this approach.

disgust.....

more so than the people being paid to do this

every person that defends this are cowards to me.

[hlthe2b]

8. One of these days, they will push the watching crowd too far...

and they just might have a very angry "mob." Not advocating for this to happen, naturally, but it is predictable. Every once in a while, the bullied push back at their tormentors. :shrug:

[seabeyond]

13. too many people are so fuckin afraid of the boogey man, that too many wont rebel

they will lower their eyes, tuck in their tail and allow a hand up their ass to make them have the illusion they are safe

[KeepItReal]

9. Patdown is meant to be humiliating and embarrassing

That's the only way these war profiteers at L3 and Rapiscan can persuade the masses into their backscatter X-rays.

IMHO, of course

[nc4bo]

10. I have no words.

I feel horrible for what this woman had to go through.

:cry:

[Auntie Bush]

11. How disgusting! That's why I won't fly anymore! I don't want to

get X-rayed and seen naked and I don't want some TSA agent felling me up. I'll just stay home, thank you! I think these people are sadistic...and I hope they get fired.

[Missy Vixen]

14. The only way this will stop

if if a) people stop flying, or b) certain parties who've never been screened have a family member or friend go through a humiliating experience at the hands of the TSA.