It’s come to this: Six-year-old gets TSA patdown
posted at 7:58 pm on April 11, 2011 by Allahpundit
Via Fox Nation, here’s the best idea that the richest, most technologically advanced country in the history of the world can come up with to guard against the slight — but real — risk of children being used as mules for weapons. And believe it or not, it could have been worse. From an item on the TSA Blog posted last November:
Myth: All children will receive pat-downs.
Fact: TSA officers are trained to work with parents to ensure a respectful screening process for the entire family, while providing the best possible security for all travelers. Children 12 years old and under who require extra screening will receive a modified pat down.
It doesn’t look real “modified,” frankly. But that’s the bad news. The good news is that the feds finally figured out that it’s better to stop people affiliated with terrorist groups from boarding a plane in the first place than to let ‘em board and question them when the plane lands. Great to hear, coming just … 10 years after 9/11. Hopefully by the 20th we’ll have figured out a way to check pre-schoolers for bombs without patting down their crotches.
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Get your hands off my daughter you incompetent control freaks.
John the Libertarian on April 11, 2011 at 8:00 PM
for crying out loud….
*shaking the head*
cmsinaz on April 11, 2011 at 8:00 PM
As long as nobody embarasses the muslims, I don’t see a problem with this.
After all, that’s what’s important, right?
Cicero43 on April 11, 2011 at 8:02 PM
Dissolve the TSA and go with private screening…
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH, and THIS IS ENOUGH!!
Khun Joe on April 11, 2011 at 8:02 PM
If the six-year-old looks pregnant, THEN you might want to check.
RBMN on April 11, 2011 at 8:05 PM
So..um..this is a US TSA,that is checking out
Palestian children out of Gaza!!(snark).
canopfor on April 11, 2011 at 8:05 PM
They KNOW, they absolutely KNOW she is no threat.
They still do this to appease those who truly are a threat.
A free people?
sharrukin on April 11, 2011 at 8:05 PM
IT MUST END…….America knows who the enemy is!!
canopfor on April 11, 2011 at 8:06 PM
This case was a woman patting down a little girl, I’ve seen men patting down little girls.
Hey, even better, let’s let the goons form a union!!
slickwillie2001 on April 11, 2011 at 8:06 PM
What I commented on Fox Nation about this:
Remember when airline travel used to be fun. Now it’s a chore. It sets passengers nervous and uneasy, flight crews are over stressed, and airlines less than hospitable. In effect, the traveling public are all terrorists until TSA screening is completed on them. It slows down the check in process and makes travel time unnecessarily lengthy. Worse, it offers no real security or protections.
Until they start profiling, they will never restore travel to the level it was before the government capitulated to the religion of peace.
Kini on April 11, 2011 at 8:07 PM
Much as I hate the idea that these monsters are willing to molest children for pay, there is something far, far more scary revealed here.
Allahpundit, please pay attention and scream in the updates.
The TSA goon is wearing gloves, which if you spend the day feeling around in strangers’ underwear is probably a good idea. BUT SHE DOES NOT CHANGE GLOVES BETWEEN VICTIMS!
That may protect the TSA workers, but it could in fact kill the people they feel up in these panty raids. No danger you say? then why is the TSA wearing the gloves?
MikeA on April 11, 2011 at 8:07 PM
A tad O/T,
at least France has the guts to slap a $200.00
fine,if a women is caught in France,wearing a Burka thingy,
in affect today!!
canopfor on April 11, 2011 at 8:08 PM
No six year old masterminds a terror plot and travels alone. WTF are they doing patting down a child without questioning the adults first?
Utter stupidity.
byepartisan on April 11, 2011 at 8:09 PM
There’s only one group of people that dresses their children in explosives.
It’s not hard to figure that out, and we don’t know a government agency to screen for that either.
Kini on April 11, 2011 at 8:11 PM
Watching that little girl’s face looking at her Mom, turns my stomach. Has it really come to this?
d1carter on April 11, 2011 at 8:11 PM
So, wait. They didn’t find anything? As soon as she came into the picture my first thought was “I gotta baaaaad feeling about this one. Twenty bucks says she’s packing 40 pounds of buckshot and a VT fuse under her shirt.”
I’m surprised, but thankful that I seemed to have misjudged her.
BKeyser on April 11, 2011 at 8:12 PM
Can a passenger request clean gloves…?
d1carter on April 11, 2011 at 8:13 PM
I’ll start flying again when the TSA is abolished. And that won’t happen until the pubic gets fed up and walks. If there is anything the airlines understand, it’s MONEY.
GarandFan on April 11, 2011 at 8:13 PM
And we allow thousands a year immigrate.
DFCtomm on April 11, 2011 at 8:13 PM
I couldn’t even finish the video.
It’s hard to watch things like this and come up with thoughts that wouldn’t seriously violate the TOS on this site and not get the authorities knocking on my door.
MadisonConservative on April 11, 2011 at 8:14 PM
They should just engage the child in conversation. Last time I flew, the TSA noted my just expired ID (it expired while we were out of state on a family emergency). My daughter then proceeded to tell every TSA agent she saw about my expired ID the whole trip home.
kringeesmom on April 11, 2011 at 8:15 PM
The Notorious G.O.P on April 11, 2011 at 8:15 PM
This is now the iconic image of the TSA: a fat-ass agent patting down a small child.
Excuse me; I’m going to go barf now.
Splashman on April 11, 2011 at 8:15 PM
And bin laudin smiles.
tinkerthinker on April 11, 2011 at 8:16 PM
canopfor on April 11, 2011 at 8:06 PM
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And we allow thousands a year immigrate.
DFCtomm on April 11, 2011 at 8:13 PM
DFCtomom:Exactly,and how many have,over stayed visas,and the
FBI,don`t have a clue,where they are!:)
canopfor on April 11, 2011 at 8:17 PM
That’s exactly what I was thinking when I started typing my comment above. I zapped a couple of sentences before settling on something more tame.
Splashman on April 11, 2011 at 8:18 PM
How did we let this happen?
itsacookbook on April 11, 2011 at 8:19 PM
That just made me physically sick. I swear to God above if anyone touched my kids, even in this capacity…I….*face is so red hot right now*
Saw that. Incredibly good news. Now begins the countdown until France is attacked, of course.
Bee on April 11, 2011 at 8:19 PM
Our government is truly out of control. The scary thing, is that now that child thinks it is “normal” to be required to submit to what is essentially a strip search. Which means, as our rights and freedoms are being eroded before our very eyes, so will hers. In another 2 generations, we’ll have mandatory searches for bus rides, employment, entering public places, in our homes, in our cars, everywhere and anywhere. Our populace will grow accustomed to being treated as chattel, and will live in a society akin to that of Nazi Germany.
KMC1 on April 11, 2011 at 8:19 PM
Parental teaching moment: “Honey, this is why Mommy and Daddy NEVER vote for Democrats. And you shouldn’t either.”
Repeat as necessary for years …
Josiah on April 11, 2011 at 8:19 PM
Ahem,(Stranger Danger)
the stranger on the street,would get a title,
‘Sexual Predator’,and then,’Registered’!!
canopfor on April 11, 2011 at 8:20 PM
I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you’ve got a really warped sense of humor.
Splashman on April 11, 2011 at 8:21 PM
Show me a Muslim 6 year old boy or girl undergoing the same and I’ll show you a New York Times front page story. You haters.
Marcus on April 11, 2011 at 8:21 PM
Gee, I feel so much safer now.
redfoxbluestate on April 11, 2011 at 8:21 PM
canopfor on April 11, 2011 at 8:08 PM
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Saw that. Incredibly good news. Now begins the countdown until France is attacked, of course.
Bee on April 11, 2011 at 8:19 PM
Bee:Fully agree,its high time that the Red Menace,crap,I
mean,the Muslim Menace,must be rolled back,at all costs!
:)
canopfor on April 11, 2011 at 8:22 PM
Until the airlines start protesting,which I guess is when we stop flying because of this, this new “normal” is all part of the plan to creep and creep and creep into our liberties. I just didn’t think it’d be so fast.
SouthernGent on April 11, 2011 at 8:24 PM
Travelling in the U.S. by air?
Bring some valid photo containing I.D. Preferably a U.S. passport. Be prepared to show it multiple times.
Remove your shoes before being permitted to board the aircraft.
Also, remove your belt. Oh, and for the ladies, remove your jewelry. Men, your watch may have to go. Of course, empty your pockets of just about everything.
Don’t forget to remove your hat, jacket, sweater, coat, sweatshirt or any other bulky exterior clothing items.
Now, a little minor radiation from a metal detector, if you’re lucky. If not, …
then, congratulations, you’ve won the daily (actually every few minutes) lottery. Your prize:
a) A demeaning if not humilating scan in the new “low radiation” full body scanner where you get to stand awkwardly with feet spread, hands raised, arms outstretched in front of everyone for a few lucky few who get to see everything. I now know what it feels like to be processed when entering prison.
Oh, did I forget to mention that with option a, you also have to depart with your wallet as the scanner can’t see through it (unlike your clothes).
b) Either by default or by opting out of the scanner, you get the other Welcome to prison processing procedure, the all over pat down, a la the six year old in the above story.
Let me remind you, this is all for a commercial air flight. Any objections to any of the protocol will find you either out on your butt in the street in front of the terminal in a heart beat, or under arrest.
Now then, you say you want to vote in a federal election in one of the most important functions of a democracy in the U.S.? Present an I.D. at the polling booth? What! Are you kidding?
parke on April 11, 2011 at 8:25 PM
Before I saw the photo I knew it wasn’t going to be an Arabic-looking child or a black child or an Hispanic-looking child.
How is that possible?
Am I al-psychic?
profitsbeard on April 11, 2011 at 8:26 PM
List of Islamic Terror Attacks For the Past 2 Months
******************************************************
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/
canopfor on April 11, 2011 at 8:26 PM
“We don’t vote for Progressive Republicans either sweetheart.”
darwin-t on April 11, 2011 at 8:29 PM
I’m not going to pretend I ever did much travel via airline, but today, even if I had the need, I wouldn’t for one moment consider it. The current screening process — whether for adult or child — is a gross violation of human dignity and common sense. Seeing children patted down only serves to make those violations more vivid.
Splashman on April 11, 2011 at 8:30 PM
Kabuki Theater for the sake of political correctness now includes child molestation. Brilliant.
Scrappy on April 11, 2011 at 8:30 PM
Amen to that.
byepartisan on April 11, 2011 at 8:31 PM
Well ,she is wearing full length burka so….oh wait, nope, they’re just disgusting perverts
jjshaka on April 11, 2011 at 8:32 PM
Remember the young boy!!
Young Boy Strip Searched By TSA
Nov 21, 2010
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KdIa7KNkdQ
canopfor on April 11, 2011 at 8:32 PM
Obama got elected and he put Janet Incompetano in charge of Homeland Security.
We allow liberals, the UCLA and pro-terrorist groups to prevent profiling of terrorists.
Now, we live within the confines of multiculturalism and political correctness.
Unreasonable search and seizure be damned
Kini on April 11, 2011 at 8:33 PM
France is a particularly interesting case. Their cultural pride helped create the poorly assimilated (Muslim) immigrant population. Yet, that same cultural pride (coupled with secular values) might be the very thing which saves it. It’s a start, at least.
Bee on April 11, 2011 at 8:34 PM
canopfor on April 11, 2011 at 8:22 PM
France is a particularly interesting case. Their cultural pride helped create the poorly assimilated (Muslim) immigrant population. Yet, that same cultural pride (coupled with secular values) might be the very thing which saves it. It’s a start, at least.
Bee on April 11, 2011 at 8:34 PM
Bee:Yup,I suppose,the Mulims,will react with thousands of
cars being alight in their warped protest!:)
canopfor on April 11, 2011 at 8:37 PM
While in line at the grocery store, my daughter noted the Food Stamp sign at the register. She said to me “How come we don’t have food stamps Mommy?” I said to her (perhaps a little to loudly for the WIC customer behind me), “Because someone has to pay for them dear, and that is why your Daddy works 12 hours a day.”
kringeesmom on April 11, 2011 at 8:38 PM
Hey, has anyone ever yet seen or heard of a video of a TSA agent feeling up a Muslim in a Burke?
Just curious.
JellyToast on April 11, 2011 at 8:40 PM
Hey, guess what the religion of peace said?
CAIR Says Religion and Baseball Don’t Mix
Now, the muzzies want our national pastime.
Kini on April 11, 2011 at 8:41 PM
+1
sandspur on April 11, 2011 at 8:41 PM
This is little more than social conditioning, same as the ’80s running-out-of-landfill-space/recycling movement, the ’90s diversity (of color)-at-all-costs movement, and the ’00s global-warming movement. Teach the young children that it must be done and that parents who oppose it are ignorant, wrong-headed, or anti-safety, and all you have to do is wait.
After 20 years of these
molestationssafety protocols, this child will believe this is the norm.Who knows what her little girl will have to endure…
rogerb on April 11, 2011 at 8:41 PM
Train these kids early to submit.
Random government strip searches on the street will be so much easier when you start them out young.
JellyToast on April 11, 2011 at 8:42 PM
Amen, bro.
I want a new government.
wccawa on April 11, 2011 at 8:44 PM
It’s a start, at least.
Bee on April 11, 2011 at 8:34 PM
Bee:)(Video)
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Women in face veils detained as France enforces ban
11 April 2011
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13031397
canopfor on April 11, 2011 at 8:46 PM
The longer that went on, the more uncomfortable it became to watch.
I feel like a pedo just for watching it.
The Ugly American on April 11, 2011 at 8:47 PM
Economic lessons are fun!
darwin-t on April 11, 2011 at 8:47 PM
Conditioning. Defund this monstrosity.
AshleyTKing on April 11, 2011 at 8:52 PM
This is quite a message we are sending to our enemies. We will gladly grope our own women and children in public rather than run the risk of offending our enemies. The problem here is that it’s our very existence that offends them.
CurtZHP on April 11, 2011 at 8:56 PM
Damn straight you can ask for clean gloves – as my wife did the time they searched her diaper bag and the time they searched the kid’s car seat (the kidlet has never been groped, praise be to Allah (no, not you – the other one)). I guess I’m not as careful as I should be – I don’t get fussed when they touch my laptop with their dirty gloves – but if they are going to put their hands in you BVDs, better get clean gloves of it’s just a matter of time before the Mechanized Dandruff Infantry (a/k/a/ crabs) will invade.
holdfast on April 11, 2011 at 9:07 PM
I traveled a lot with work in the summer of ’07. The TSA are idiots who have a sense of authority. Dangerous combination.
carbon_footprint on April 11, 2011 at 9:17 PM
Can we move the ever-so-thorough TSA to the southern border? The act depicted on this video is vile.
AmericanDad on April 11, 2011 at 9:19 PM
Carbon_footprint-
I had recurring reasons to interact with the TSA at an airport in the California Bay Area for a few years.
The TSA is a joke- 10 people standing around who would have washed out working at McDonalds and 4 Supes who think they’re Barney Fife.
Just a bad joke all around.
jjshaka on April 11, 2011 at 9:23 PM
Stupid. Stupid organizations run by stupid people.
ted c on April 11, 2011 at 9:27 PM
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.”
They gave us permission to do just that…
Freelancer on April 11, 2011 at 9:33 PM
Well, a couple more times through the feel up from T.S.A. and this little girl will be prime for a child molester. She has been taught that a person in uniform is allowed to touch her any where they want to. I drove to Florida, to Oklahoma then back to Florida rather than have my 9 year old Granddaughter be subjected to being felt up by T.S.A. worker. I have taught her to kick anyone that touches her there in the same place they feel. She would do it too. I have not flown and none of my family has flown since they started the enhanced pat down. I still want to know why the pick 6 year old Caucasian child when ignoring Arab Men and Women dressed in loose clothing and there (women) face covered walk right through. Tell the ACLU, C.A.I.R. and anyone else, the bombers, hijackers, and the fighters in the Middle East are Arab Muslim and look noting like 6 year old Caucasian Children.
old war horse on April 11, 2011 at 9:33 PM
Rats, the part in the second quote box above was supposed to be bold. PIMF
Freelancer on April 11, 2011 at 9:34 PM
If that had been my kid, I would have put my boot into the pie-hole of the pervert feeling her up, and faced the consequences. Absolutely, jack-booted disgusting. What’s happened to our country?
realitycheck on April 11, 2011 at 9:36 PM
Seriously pathetic. THIS is what the Obama administration has reduced this nation to… groping six year-olds.
Murf76 on April 11, 2011 at 9:37 PM
Since those who would commit “man-made disasters” on airplanes are nameless, faceless ne’er do wells, of course we are all suspects, and must be patted down. This includes even the baby Jesus, too.
Really Right on April 11, 2011 at 9:39 PM
Wow That was a relief-I mean…I thought that child looked pretty dangerous.
New TSA logo: “Keeping America safe… one child pat down at a time.”
3dpuzzman on April 11, 2011 at 9:42 PM
Laughing his ass off.
dogsoldier on April 11, 2011 at 9:45 PM
Symptom of a disease called fear.
Outrageous, and pathetic.
Kenosha Kid on April 11, 2011 at 9:46 PM
Let’s ask Education Secretary Arne Duncan since this stuff is taught in like 3rd grade as a matter of cours: Was that “good touch” or “bad touch”?
Buy Danish on April 11, 2011 at 9:48 PM
Sickening. All I feel is white hot anger.
This must stop. Stop them before the unionize. This is the biggest threat to our civil liberties at this time.
PattyJ on April 11, 2011 at 9:49 PM
FIFY
chemman on April 11, 2011 at 9:49 PM
So are an 8 y/o’s comments in the checkout line, but that’s another story.
kringeesmom on April 11, 2011 at 9:50 PM
Just wait til they pick their union!
kringeesmom on April 11, 2011 at 9:51 PM
The terrorists have won. Children and nuns are the real enemy. Ten years after 9/11 this is all we’ve learned.
Dave in San Diego on April 11, 2011 at 10:00 PM
Fixed it.
Slowburn on April 11, 2011 at 10:01 PM
Watch the video…
… then look at this.
Have you had enough yet…?
Seven Percent Solution on April 11, 2011 at 10:09 PM
Let’s ask Education Secretary Arne Duncan since this stuff is taught in like 3rd grade as a matter of cours: Was that “good touch” or “bad touch”?
Buy Danish on April 11, 2011 at 9:48 PM
Buy Danish:Dead on,Danish:)
canopfor on April 11, 2011 at 10:13 PM
You can’t blame the TSA agents. They are just following orders.
Wait,… where have I heard that before?
JellyToast on April 11, 2011 at 10:14 PM
I would have beat the sh!t out of that TSA agent if he did that to my kid. PERIOD! The only reason they harass us is because no one stops them. A couple really good near death ass kicken’s would put and end to this.
Where are the men that are allowing their daughters to be groped? WTF country of WUSSIES! Thanks libs!
Henny on April 11, 2011 at 10:17 PM
I’m talking to my twenty year old daughter,and
mentioned it to her,he’s her reply’s!!
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Thats f*cked up,
patting down a child!
like seriously,it looks like an all american family.
canopfor on April 11, 2011 at 10:19 PM
This is a reflection of the whole administration’s total incompetence. Starting with the boob in the WH.
ultracon on April 11, 2011 at 10:21 PM
As long as it’s not President Obama’s daughter, right?
manwithblackhat on April 11, 2011 at 10:25 PM
These idiots don’t seem to get the fact that there is by definition nothing respectful about having a stranger paw your body when you have done whatsoever to warrant it.
Modified for kids? Yeah, they didn’t touch her genitals. And we’re supposed to think that’s “respectful”?
ProfessorMiao on April 11, 2011 at 10:31 PM
Sicko! Where is Michael Moore on this one??
Sherman1864 on April 11, 2011 at 10:35 PM
ISLAMO-FACIST JIHADISTS W O N !!!!
Time to turn the tables on these scum. They have no business in the USA and ought to be looking over their shoulder from now on. Damn them and the spineless politicians that let them infest our civilized society. It ain’t over yet.
bannedbyhuffpo on April 11, 2011 at 10:38 PM
It feels that way doesn’t it? When I feel more at risk of indecent handling by our own TSA than I do at risk from a terrorist attack!!
EasyEight on April 11, 2011 at 10:51 PM
Look, these guys are Highly trained by our gubment to find Al Qaeda. Ok! They are keeping you safe from, what is clear as day in that video, white Al Qaeda. Don’t let that 6 year old fool you, she is a stone cold killer!
I say we send all the TSA to Libya, have the rebel fighters either go though the radiation chamber or get a “modified pat down” to see which ones are Al Qaeda and which are the real deal.
Octavia on April 11, 2011 at 11:04 PM
As others have said, it’s hard to describe the depths of my anger when watching this. The comment about us having to become stupid is so spot on — look at how the little girl is dressed, tight jeans, a tightly fitting shirt; what? Did the TSA think she was packing a howitzer under her shirt? She couldn’t have hidden a stick of Wrigley’s Spearmint gum the way she was dressed, yet the TSA agent still had to sexually molester her?
Unfortunately, I have to travel for work and it is just not practical to drive from Tucson to the East Coast for a 1 day meeting (I have done so for a West coast meeting and will do so in the future). So far, I’ve been lucky and haven’t had my 4′th amendment rights violated. Remember that one Ms. Incompetano? It’s the one that talks about us being secure in our persons and papers and that no search can be executed without a warrant issued with probable cause. My desire to fly on an airplane is not probable cause for a search that in the rest of the country could only be executed with such a warrant or following a stop for a felony violation. As I said, so far i’ve been lucky and haven’t been assaulted (I will be using the phrase about following orders and make sure that the molester is made to feel as badly as possible while remaining respectful of course). All I’ve had to do so far is provide a peek-show view of my glorious, if slightly overweight 52 year old naked body via “secure” wireless link to some TSA pervert in another part of the airport.
Yeah, this is a hot-button for me. Especially after sitting next to a middle-easterner on the plane back to Tucson this weekend who made me nervous as @#$%. The guy was nervous as a cat and feeling around various parts of the airplane window and seat. Kept pulling out a cell phone to check the time. Instead of sleeping, I spent the entire 2 hour flight watching his hands and assessing what tools I had available in case something did happen. I sure felt better knowing that he had gone through a rigorous screening to get onto the aircraft.
AZfederalist on April 11, 2011 at 11:13 PM
I remember a lot of HA members thinking this was within the airlines rights to do. Myself, no, I would have beat the bastard and anyone who tried to stop me.
Molest my little girl, and I don’t care if you’re a cop, judge, senater, pervert, whatever, I’m gonna end it for you.
MadDogF on April 11, 2011 at 11:21 PM
I like how she asks the mom to move to the girl’s front so she can SEE the process of touching her crotch. Yeah, that makes it all better, like it didn’t even happen.
tikvah on April 11, 2011 at 11:24 PM
TSA going after 6 year olds…but CIA mising in action.
Schadenfreude on April 11, 2011 at 11:29 PM
I could have swore that kind of behavior was illegal in all 50 states, and the territories and the rest of the civilized world (except those under Sharia law).
Wolftech on April 11, 2011 at 11:31 PM
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