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In reply to the discussion: TSA apologizes for attempting to screen toddler in wheelchair [View all]CreekDog
(46,192 posts)29. could be referring to the glass box you wait in until they give you the secondary inspection
and for the disabled or those with health issues, that's a sure way to get to be in the box 100% of the time.
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lesson for terrorists - plant your devices in wheelchairs carrying small children? nt
msongs
Feb 2013
#1
As long as the children don't cry or be a little inconvenienced it doesn't matter...
BlueJazz
Feb 2013
#14
do you think the disabled are not inspected thoroughly enough before boarding planes?
CreekDog
Feb 2013
#27
You're not going to like this: I actually did fly in a wheelchair for 2 flights.
BlueJazz
Feb 2013
#86
you were in a wheelchair twice? so what. you didn't learn anything sensitivity from it...
CreekDog
Feb 2013
#93
Come on now...get real. You know I wasn't upset about having to wait for disabled people ...
BlueJazz
Feb 2013
#99
I'm well aware that it's probably a waste of time. I have written letters and tried to be active
BlueJazz
Feb 2013
#97
I'm a Man and (for a while) was a rape counselor. That's where my Sig. came from.
BlueJazz
Feb 2013
#87
LOL, yes, because there is tons of proof terrorists are stopped daily by the TSA. The TSA....
Logical
Feb 2013
#16
Apparently the TSA was frightened by a crying, wheelchair-bound 3-year-old
Cali_Democrat
Feb 2013
#62
could be referring to the glass box you wait in until they give you the secondary inspection
CreekDog
Feb 2013
#29
"Totally out of control"? They are under the control of the guy in the White House.
AnotherMcIntosh
Feb 2013
#42
if the "terrorists" start employing sick babies, old people, and the infirmed they fucking win ok
NightWatcher
Feb 2013
#11
It's designed to psychologically condition the populace to accept an authoritarian police state.
backscatter712
Feb 2013
#17
and it is working, half the posters here think the disabled need to be inspected harder
CreekDog
Feb 2013
#28
LOL, please list in detail how many terrorists the TSA has stopped. Also, they stopped.....
Logical
Feb 2013
#19
i always find it interesting when the most ignorant posts come from posters who should know better
CreekDog
Feb 2013
#45
Wait, wait, so anyone against harassing 3 year olds in wheel chairs is a bleeding heart?
fujiyama
Feb 2013
#32
yes multiple posters in this thread think babies in wheelchairs are terrorist risks
CreekDog
Feb 2013
#47
If they are anything like the Border Patrol, I can't blame her. n/t
Lady Freedom Returns
Feb 2013
#41
If Bush were still president, you can bet there would not be a single defense of the TSA..
MotherPetrie
Feb 2013
#77
The idiocy and the sheer paranoia on display in these two threads is embarrassing. Stop
Guy Whitey Corngood
Feb 2013
#35
GWB. No wonder he was able to get away with so much shit. And contrary to
Guy Whitey Corngood
Feb 2013
#67
Whose in charge of the federal government? We used to blame Bush for the security theatre.
AnotherMcIntosh
Feb 2013
#37
so you're saying that the TSA is apologizing becaues they enforced the rules correctly?
CreekDog
Feb 2013
#80
How about "Live Free or Die?" If you think those procedures are "keeping us safe"
ScreamingMeemie
Feb 2013
#88