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    SettonLaura Beck
    10/12/13 2:05pm

    Whilst proper dialogue and an ability to treat people with dignity whilst explaining what they're doing is essential, fundamentally they need to be able to check everything no?

    Like the minute you say 'no this is a step to far, everyone knows old people can't be violent (nice ageism there btb bb)' you open up an opportunity that terrorists could take advantage of.

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      MichaelSetton
      10/12/13 2:17pm

      And the minute we say 'okay, a government agency has free range to do whatever as long as they potentially are protecting us' is the minute nothing matters anymore because the terrorists have succeeded in making us all paranoid AND getting more of our freedoms taken away. It's a double-edged sword and there's no winning.

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      UrbanAchieverSetton
      10/12/13 2:21pm

      I don't think anyone is arguing against checking anything that warrants real suspicion. But I've had agents insist on using a metal wand on my completely bare feet, between my toes. Why? Because I eye-rolled at some over-zealous agent doing something similar to the person ahead of me, so I got The Treatment just to show me who was boss.

      Also, TSA cow who insisted on safety-checking my then 9-year-old daughter's purse by forcibly crumbling an open baggie of three cookies meant as an in-flight treat - right into the entire little girl purse, directly into the camera she'd just gotten for her birthday, and into her book - Thank you for demonstrating your patriotic enthusiasm by protecting us all from the 9-year-old cookie toting baddies.

      And then everyone defends them on some level because, well, at least we're all safer this way!

      Uh-huh.

      GIF
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    ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ : Riot GRRR is RUNNING WILDLaura Beck
    10/12/13 2:32pm
    GIF

    AND I’M PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN,

    WHERE AT LEAST I KNOW I’M FREE.

    AND I WONT FORGET THE MEN WHO DIED,

    WHO GAVE THAT RIGHT TO ME.

    AND I GLADLY STAND UP,

    NEXT TO YOU AND DEFEND HER STILL TODAY.

    ‘CAUSE THERE AIN’T NO DOUBT I LOVE THIS LAND,

    GOD BLESS THE USA.

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      BirdsDontFlyIntheRainʕ•ᴥ•ʔ : Riot GRRR is RUNNING WILD
      10/12/13 2:35pm

      This is what the TSA agent thinks as they humiliate the Marine

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      B reʕ•ᴥ•ʔ : Riot GRRR is RUNNING WILD
      10/12/13 2:51pm

      WTF kinda response is that. Are you proud that TSA agents are treating the disabled like animals? If so, you are worse then they are.. at least they think it is for their job.

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    littleyewLaura Beck
    10/12/13 3:28pm

    It's rough to go through security when you have disabilities. If you have any sort of assistive device, you're going to get strip searched, or thoroughly patted down or some other indignity. They almost always ask me to remove something that I can't remove without physical consequences, and it turns into an argument.

    I wouldn't mind this so much, if it weren't so painful and trying. I try to leave extra time for my flights, but I never know what TSA will do; there is no standard. At the end of this month I have to fly to NY to get my top two vertabrae fused and a plate put in my skull. I know the TSA will have something special for me, I just don't know what it is, and that stresses me out.

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      BirdsDontFlyIntheRainLaura Beck
      10/12/13 2:12pm

      The TSA has not made this country any safe. They have stopped ZERO attacks and are nothing more than a government supported molestation group .

      "The other stories — a Marine who'd lost both his legs in an Afghanistan bomb attack said he was asked to stand up on his artificial legs to pass through the full-body scanner; a woman wrote that an agent ordered a pat down of her prosthetic breast and refused to conduct the search in private — are equally horrifying."

      WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK FUCK FUCK

      The TSA has not mad this country any safe. They have stopped ZERO attacks and are nothing more than … Read more Read more

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        KastleBirdsDontFlyIntheRain
        10/12/13 2:51pm

        1) You have no - ZERO - factual knowledge about whether or not the TSA has or has not stopped an attack. This so-called fact is actually just your opinion.

        2) there must be something missing in this account. Why is it reprehensible to ask a man with prosthetic legs, which were designed to be stood on, to stand on them? What am I missing here?

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        BirdsDontFlyIntheRainKastle
        10/12/13 2:56pm

        A quick google search would show you that they have even stated as much.

        ZERO TERRORIST ATTACKS STOPPED

        "there must be something missing in this account. Why is it reprehensible to ask a man with prosthetic legs, which were designed to be stood on, to stand on them? What am I missing here" He is a god damn marine that lost those legs making this country safer. Those same legs would make the scanner go off and would require a pat down anyways.

        No TSA agent has done anything to make this country safer but they get away with molesting old people, children, men, women, and our soldiers

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      EldritchLaura Beck
      10/12/13 2:24pm

      I'm not even shocked anymore. I wish I could be, I wish I could gather up some outrage, but I can't scrape any up. The TSA has almost zero oversight and nothing will change. Like all things, they're allowed to exist unfettered because people get money out of them, like congressmen and women who get money from the companies who make the scanners and insisted they be in all the airports even though they're ineffective and have even been banned in other countries.

      It's just so hopeless.

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