The TSA is just doing there part to make sure we have a new generation of strippers and prostitutes. I for one thank them for doing their part in destroying the ability of little girls to grow up and have meaningful intimate relationships.

All men 40 years and older get digital probes, improve airport security and detect prostate cancer at the same time !

My youngest child was shown a “good touch, bad touch” video in school that was revised to say Parents, Doctors and nurses, and the TSA” ( i did not see the video). My kid said the TSA personn was grabbing the kids private parts fairly hard. He then asked me not to fly when we go to florida, because he does not want to be grabbed like that (he is a very sensitive special needs child).

Submit!!

I sez: No.

Every time this issue comes up on here there are hundreds of commments complaining. And even with the outrage nationally the TSA managed to keep this policy through the Holidays and it’s just as strongly seated now as ever before.

This practice isn’t going away anytime soon, and no amount of complaining or voting is going to change things. The TSA and Homeland Security has been voted into a position that they are almost out of reach, and those who they are within their reach are more afraid of crossing the TSA/Homeland Security and finding themselves sitting in a cell with no ability to communicate with anyone.

The world thinks that the President of the USA is the most powerful leader in the world. The reality is that the Leader of the Homeland Security is the most powerful person.

Voters put the Homeland Security in place, but there is no taking that power away no matter how hard we try. Hell think about it, not even the Supreme Court is willing to stand up against them for clear and blatant violations of the 1st and 4th amendments. The Supreme Court is the last of the battle grounds in the USA, and effectively that battleground isn’t even available to us.

The Day that Bush sold the American public on the Homeland Security Bill is the day that the United Stated tore up the Constitution and danced on it’s pieces.

It’s also the day that every American Soldier that has died in the name of freedom collectively rolled over in their graves and wept.

Why the hell can’t the TSA be sued out of fucking existence? They don’t deserve to be around, they need to be lawsuit-bombed into a smoldering hole in the ground.

If people would state their objection to NOT FLYING, and make the airports pay with loss of profits, you’d be damned sure they would do something about this.

Has anyone noticed the similiarities between the current USA laws for “safety & security” recently passed (or about to be) and the initial rise of the 3rd Reich??

I commend to you your history lessons – else you will be doomed to repeat them.

The very early indicators – rehtoric etc are remarkable similiar in effect on a populace that has a very strong “entitled” society with firm beliefs that it’s way is best.

(apologies to Godwin… I was too factual to invoke his law…and someone else beat me to it anyway – my point stands)

All this debate about “rights” and “inappropriate” and “how did this happen” and “does this stop terrorist attacks” is a distraction; a managed debate and smokescreen to obscure the bottom-line:

TSA is big business. The scanners, the procedures, the taxable pay, the huge employment… this country was set up to fall down hard with the S/L and home loan scandals by 2003-2005. The depression/”recession” was already on the horizon and those in the financial markets knew it.

DHS is not going to go away, and is going to only increase, for one simple and solid reason: it’s employment for thousands of people and a moneymaker for hundreds of tech firms. It’s the hottest business going now.

The poster above who compared this to the pre-3rd Reich was good, but I’d also point to pre-Mussolini Italy for a little pertinent and thought-provoking history.

“The TSA and Homeland Security has been voted into a position that they are almost out of reach…”

Who voted these people in?

That would be okay if the TSA were actually any good at what they get paid for. Frankly, the fact that an internal TSA evaluation of security procedures resulted in a planted TSA agent getting through TSA security with a gun tells me that that the TSA is utterly worthless and incompetent.

And thusly do wrongs keep going when the majority oppose them but don’t like having to make anything other than the easiest of choices.

It is true. People committed genocide during WWII and blamed it on orders… they were severely punished for their crimes, despite the fact that they were given orders to do what they did and would likely have had their jobs revoked or been executed had they not.

== Sexual abuse is defined by the American Heritage Dictionary as:
1. forcing of unwanted sexual activity by one person on another, as by the use of threats or coercion.
2. Sexual activity that is deemed improper or harmful, as between an adult and a minor or with a person of diminished mental capacity.

== The Federal Criminal Code definition of sexual abuse includes:

1. Causing another person to engage in a sexual activity by threatening or placing that person in fear.
2. Engaging in a sexual act if that person is incapable of declining participation in, or communicating unwillingness to engage in that sexual act.

So by the dictionary and by law, forcing someone to accept the touching of their private areas, for any reason, is sexual abuse. And what of the penalties? Criminal penalties may include imprisonment, fines, registration as a sex offender, and restrictions on probation and parole. Civil penalties may include liability for damages, injunctions, involuntary commitment, and, for perpetrators related to their victims, loss of custody or parental rights. There are also heavier penalties for child sex offenders, especially repeat offenders and offenders who are in a position of trust, like a parent, guardian or TSA official.

You know, there is a reason why they must do this. Don’t get me wrong, I KNOW it looks bizarre to see a little girl getting a pat down. But that woman did nothing wrong to that little girl. She did her job, in full view of the parent in a professional manner.

I may think that things have gone a little too far myself, but you can’t exclude anybody if you want the it to be fair. And working in the field, and having seen people sneak in all kinds of things on their children, YES some parents really are Scum Bags, even if its a one in a thousand chance, you still have to check.

I am not saying its going to be terrorists, or weapons of mass destruction on that little girl, but I have seen other illegal products such as drugs and alcohol. AND when you find that on these children, you are now able to phone child services on that parent, I mean do you really think a person who would smuggle in cocaine on their baby, should be raising that child??

Unfortunately the average citizen doesn’t see everything that goes on, they just see a little snippit of a little girl who doesn’t want a stranger touching her on the internet. They don’t see or hear of the MANY times that that dirt bag parent used their child to traffic illegal stuff. It’s sad, but it happens all the time!

Anyways, thats just my two cents!

The bottom line is that these kinds of horrifying policies are set by an aged section of the populace that still fears boogeymen like Communists and Terrorists even though there is no reason to do so. These people are still so shell-shocked by the 9/11 narrative that they are willing to hold everyone’s freedom hostage to get a tiny bit of security. When we are nailing the coffins shut on the last of the Baby Boomers I hope we will finally see all of this paranoia disappear. I REALLY hope.

At least he has the right name.