10 Year Old Girl a Terrorist Risk?
In a reasonable world, it is impossible to fully vet every single passenger boarding a plane, and so inspectors would focus on the most likely candidates. In the case of the twin towers, the suicide terrorists were young men between the ages of 18 and 40, were all of middle eastern descent, with dark hair and dark eyes, and were all Muslim. In recent years, most suicide bombing or terror activities have been carried out by individuals with a similar profile, with the very rare young women involved, or even more rarely, a child.
Logic would dictate that TSA should focus on the most likely profile, perhaps expanding outward from that if there is sufficient time to be more discriminating. TSA, however, is a non-thinking, non-reasoning, politically correct beast, and so it views 90 year old Caucasian grandmothers and 3 year old male toddlers in the same category as the 30 year old Pakistani wearing a turban and reciting the Qu’ran. They are all subject to frisking, fondling, delays, and obnoxious searches, and they broach absolutely no objection or push back to their offensive behavior.
This outrageous and idiotic behavior was once again demonstrated at the Raleigh-Durham International Airport when a TSA agent accosted a 10 year old girl over a juice box that was inadvertently left in a carry-on handbag.
A young girl’s father was outraged after a TSA agent patted her down for nearly two minutes at an airport. The girl’s father recorded the incident on his smart phone. Kevin Payne and his daughter, Vendela, were heading home to San Diego by way of Raleigh-Durham International Airport, when Transportation Security Administration agents discovered a Capri Sun juice pouch. Liquids exceeding three ounces are not allowed in carry-on bags for fear that they might contain explosives, and so TSA agents initiated a pat down followed by an hour of extra screening.
“Maybe the TSA agents were bad apples, maybe they were under-trained, maybe they need re-training, maybe they did everything by the book,” Kevin Payne said, according to KXAN. “I don’t really know, but it was an uncomfortable situation.”
Payne said that TSA agents told him he wasn’t allowed to film, but he recorded the incident on his smart phone anyway, and has since posted the video on YouTube and Nextdoor.
“I’m a very big proponent of security, and if they were patting me down, no problem, but this was a 10-year-old girl,” Payne said, according to The San Diego Union-Tribune. “The whole system seems to not work the way it should be working.”
His daughter said she kept herself together because she didn’t want to “throw a tantrum like a one-year-old,” according to KNSD.
“I know it’s to keep everybody on the plane safe, but she kept patting me down,” Vendela said. “It was like, over and over.”
The Payne family made it on to their flight, but only because their plane was delayed.
The federal government needs to be cut down to size and these types of agencies completely reined in, with a number of firings being instituted to remind the government that they work for the people.
And, the nonsense of political correctness taking precedent over common sense and decency must come to an end. It is becoming increasingly clear that government abuses of power are standard operating procedure, and the creation of such agencies have done nothing to increase the safety and security of the public, but instead have become autocratic demonstrations of power that truly impact on our freedoms and rights as citizens.
Source: rt.com
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It anuses me how after 9/11 everyone on TV telling elected officials do something protect us. We got TSA now 15 years later everyone has forgotten. Now TSA is an inconvenience because its slows down check in. Is TSA always right? Heck no. Do the screw up sure they do. I have a friend that was an agent and later a supervisor at PHL. Contraband was confiscated all the time including knives and occasional gun. Do you think everything makes the news. By the way when your boy Obama took over their budget and hours were cut.
We fly international every couple years this year my wife has a pacemaker ; she can go through the x- ray but not the metal detector ; has a tamper proof I D card but ; now she’s double wand and tested for powder and explosives residue and you have to remind them the wand must not pass over the pacemaker !!! Just not well trained and you can tell most are undereducated !
I’ve said this from day one…. They are a bunch of useless maggots on payroll…. I got into it with one in Raleigh one day and to this day I am red flagged when I fly a certain airline… Don’t give a cluck about that but I’d come to the rescue of any woman going thru this$#%&!@*any day….Buck all of you people who think they are doing a good job…..
If they are not stealing out of your bags now they are feeling little girls up.