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In reply to the discussion: TSA apologizes for attempting to screen toddler in wheelchair [View all]BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)99. Come on now...get real. You know I wasn't upset about having to wait for disabled people ...
...or even Elders. I'm upset because they need to speed up the damn process by having more lanes...
God...you must think I'm a real prick.
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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