Cancer surviving flight attendant forced to remove prosthetic breast during pat-down

[zabet]

Cancer surviving flight attendant forced to remove prosthetic breast during pat-down

By Molly Grantham

CHARLOTTE, NC (WBTV) - A Charlotte-area flight attendant and cancer survivor contacted WBTV after she says she was forced to show her prosthetic breast during a pat-down.

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In early August Bossie was walking through security when she says she was asked to go through the new full body-scanners at Concourse "D" at Charlotte Douglas International.

She reluctantly agreed. As a 3-year breast cancer survivor she says she didn't want the added radiation through her body. But, Bossi says she did agree.

"The T.S.A. Agent told me to put my I.D. on my back," she said. "When I got out of there she said because my I.D. was on my back, I had to go to a personal screening area."

Much more here: http://www.wect.com/Global/story.asp?S=13534628

[malaise]

1. This is fugging crazy

:puke:

[TexasObserver]

2. This is about selling machines & making citizens accept the crushing of their constitutional rights.

Many people who have prosthetics, or who have been sexually assaulted, or who simply have a low tolerance for being felt up by a stranger will be subjected to untold horrors by these practices.

This TSA set up is much ado about nothing. There's been one underwear bomber, whose entire circumstances were unbelievable. It was almost as if whoever wanted to sell this technology wanted to create a reason for people to buy it.

This entire TSA process is a fraud. If you want to look for explosives, box cutters, or guns, metal detectors and dogs can tell you better than any human. If you want to create and sell an expensive apparatus to make citizens used to the idea of standing in line and doing as they're told, invent a process such as this one.

This is about selling machines and making citizens accept the crushing of their constitutional rights.

[silverweb]

3. Exactly.

n/t

[Greyhound]

5. Precisely.

(silverweb already used exactly)
:applause:

[KeepItReal]

8. +1 for Michael Chertoff getting paid in full

"Since the attempted bombing of a US airliner on Christmas Day, former Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff has given dozens of media interviews touting the need for the federal government to buy more full-body scanners for airports.

What he has made little mention of is that the Chertoff Group, his security consulting agency, includes a client that manufactures the machines. Chertoff disclosed the relationship on a CNN program Wednesday, in response to a question.

Chertoff’s advocacy for the technology dates to his time in the Bush administration. In 2005, Homeland Security ordered the government’s first batch of the scanners - five from California-based Rapiscan Systems. "

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2010/01/02/group_slams_chertoff_on_scanner_promotion/

[Greyhound]

4. Yes! This is the "terrorist's" next weapon of mass destruction, the boobie-bomb!

Be afraid, be very afraid!

In the interrogation rooms no one can hear you scream...

Is there no end to the outrage and stupidity?
:eyes:
:kick: & R

[somone]

6. This Thanksgiving Americans have something special to be thankful for

[gratuitous]

7. If we don't do this

People, especially women (and you all know how tricky they are), will get the message that it's all right to get breast cancer. It's absolutely necessary to the existence of the United States, it is! Whoever says it isn't is probably in league with the terrorists.

[mimitabby]

9. damn

this takes the cake. How dare they (yeah, i know, because they CAN)