TSA: Sorry we violated

Posted: Feb 20, 2013

The 3-year-old was in a wheelchair. The article in part: “TSA regrets inaccurate guidance was provided to this family during screening and offers its apology,” a TSA spokesman told me in an email. Inaccurate guidance? Government agents took away a little girl’s stuffed animal – and made her cry. The TSA also admitted their agents made another mistake. Passengers are allowed to film TSA procedures. And they also said Lucy should never have been subjected to a pat-down. The cold hard reality is that American airports have been turned into third-world outposts governed by TSA dictatorships. Americans are stripped of not only their dignity, but also their Constitutional rights. If TSA agents tried to touch a child or anyone else in the manner outside the airport, they would be facing felony charges. I’m not sure why the TSA has an obsession with America’s nether regions – but it seems to me the government crosses the line when their agents begin detaining and searching three-year-old girls over fears they might be terrorists. It’s time for Americans to rise up and demand Congress put an end to the jack-booted policies of the TSA. It’s time for us to stand as a united voice and demand government agents stop violating our Constitutional rights. Unless brave patriots take a stand, there will be another child – just like Lucy – who loses her childlike innocence at a TSA checkpoint. http://www.humanevents.com/2013/02/20/tsa-sorry-we-violated-your-3-year-olds-dignity/;