TSA - 95 yr old woman FORCED to remove diaper

[Napoleon's Shadow]

http://www.newsherald.com/news/mother-94767-search-adult.html


A woman has filed a complaint with federal authorities over how her elderly mother was treated at Northwest Florida Regional Airport last weekend.


Jean Weber of Destin filed a complaint with the Department of Homeland Security after her 95-year-old mother was detained and extensively searched last Saturday while trying to board a plane to fly to Michigan to be with family members during the final stages of her battle with leukemia.


Her mother, who was in a wheelchair, was asked to remove an adult diaper in order to complete a pat-down search.



She said her mother was first pulled aside into a glass-partitioned area and patted down. Then she was taken to another room to protect her privacy during a more extensive search, Weber said.


Weber said she sat outside the room during the search.


She said security personnel then came out and told her they would need for her mother to remove her Depends diaper because it was soiled and was impeding their search.

Weber wheeled her mother into a bathroom, removed her diaper and returned. Her mother did not have another clean diaper with her, Weber said.

[pacelli]

She was not forced to remove her diaper. Weber complied with a request and removed her mother's diaper to cooperate.

[Wolfgang Bohringer]

Weber (the 95 year old woman's daughter) said she wished there were less invasive search methods for an elderly person who is unable to walk through security gates.

“I don’t understand why they have to put them through that kind of procedure,” she said.

Its interesting how the reporter (Lauren Sage Reinlie) conflates Weber's "not understanding why" with "wishing for less invasive methods."

The unquestioned premise of course is that Weber is either a right winger and believes that only 95 year old Muslim women should have their assholes inspected or that Weber is a left winger and wishes she could think of a better way to inspect the assholes of ALL 95 year old women--Muslim and Christian--because after all Timothy McVeigh's grandmother might have gotten some ideas from the Muslims and...

[Maximus]

This is terrible, there is zero excuse for this

[angelatc]

Hey - there's certainly a case to be made for deciding to wear a diaper when we fly now, isn't there? If they want to search....:)

[VBRonPaulFan]

but she's 95 years old and has nothing left to live for!!!! what better candidate for al-qaeda could you possibly get??? obviously any 85+ year old person is a significant threat to our national security and must be carefully watched!!!!!!!

[Kylie]

Fucking sickening.

I would have dressed down those TSA agents right in front of everyone. More than likely, I would not only have not gotten on my flight, but I would have been arrested.


You will NOT treat my family that way, ever. Not with me standing there. I hope those agents can't sleep at night. They are no better in my mind than the JBT.

[madfoot]

I thought this was a joke when I first heard about it.

[MelissaWV]

She was not forced to remove her diaper. Weber complied with a request and removed her mother's diaper to cooperate.

This.

Though I also question, on an unrelated note, why the daughter did not have a spare undergarment/diaper. If the mom was soiled before they even got on the plane, was the daughter just not planning on changing her until they landed and got to somewhere where she could get another diaper? That's pretty friggin' sick.

[Dr.3D]

This.

Though I also question, on an unrelated note, why the daughter did not have a spare undergarment/diaper. If the mom was soiled before they even got on the plane, was the daughter just not planning on changing her until they landed and got to somewhere where she could get another diaper? That's pretty friggin' sick.
Maybe she thought the TSA wouldn't scare the crap out of her mother before they got on the plane.

[MelissaWV]

Maybe she thought the TSA wouldn't scare the crap out of her mother before they got on the plane.

:rolleyes: No, seriously. Do you go on with anyone who wears a diaper and not have a spare? I don't get it.

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It's also incredibly gross that soiling yourself "impedes" someone's search. Right there is an admission that they were delving into a 95-year-old woman's swimsuit areas. Why isn't this a "WTF?" moment for more people :(

[Kylie]

This.

Though I also question, on an unrelated note, why the daughter did not have a spare undergarment/diaper. If the mom was soiled before they even got on the plane, was the daughter just not planning on changing her until they landed and got to somewhere where she could get another diaper? That's pretty friggin' sick.




They were probably on the banned items list.

Wouldn't that be icing on the top of this shit cake.

[bkreigh]

They were probably on the banned items list.

Wouldn't that be icing on the top of this shit cake.

After they rung her diaper out they found that she was 1.25 ounces over the allowed fluid ounce requirement.

[squarepusher]

After they rung her diaper out they found that she was 1.25 ounces over the allowed fluid ounce requirement.

:p

[LibertyEagle]

The American people need to decide if they want to live in a country that would do this. My, what we have become. :(

The attack on our country on 9-11 was bad enough. But, it's nothing compared to what we have allowed our government to do in the name of safety and security. Bin Laden would be so proud.

And to think, we used to be the land of the free and the home of the brave.

[Sola_Fide]

Elderly people should not be exempt from the grooming process. Let's make authoritarianism fair for everybody, right?

[josh b]

It just gets worse and worse.

[liberty2897]

http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/06/26/florida.tsa.incident/

[Napoleon's Shadow]

http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/06/26/florida.tsa.incident/
Awesome, front page of CNN.com

[nobody's_hero]

she was not forced to remove her diaper. Weber complied with a request and removed her mother's diaper to cooperate.

worse!

[Kylie]

She was not forced to remove her diaper. Weber complied with a request and removed her mother's diaper to cooperate.



Then the mother should slap the shit out of her daughter, and tell her to pass it on to the TSA agent.

This just pisses me off. You don't mess with old people like this.

[Dr.3D]

Then the mother should slap the shit out of her daughter, and tell her to pass it on to the TSA agent.

This just pisses me off. You don't mess with old people like this.
Then they would need two clean pair of Depends undergarments. ;)

[RonPaulGetsIt]

This whole TSA thing is about the sheep being subservient to our ruling masters.

How much are we going to put up with? give me a break.

The airlines should provide their own security and the passengers can choose the level of security they want.

Get the givernment out of it entirely.

Of course that wouldn't make Michael Chertoff, former homeland security cheif very happy as he is making millions with the porno scanner machines.

No you won't hear about that on CNN. It's not on their list of approved topics.

For mor on the TSA, see: A Free Market in Air Security. (http://www.freemarketfan.com/2010/11/free-market-in-air-security.html)

[thehungarian]

Pathetic. Plenty has been said of this already, but I just thought of something: I have only been to the Milwaukee Mitchell airport and the Chicago O'Hare airport, but I have not once seen a TSA "officer" that I found to be intimidating or that I thought would ever be able to apprehend an actual TURRURIST should the need arise. Not one. The majority I've seen are fat black chicks who talk loudly at you and oldies easily over 50 years old.

[QueenB4Liberty]

Fucking sickening.

I would have dressed down those TSA agents right in front of everyone. More than likely, I would not only have not gotten on my flight, but I would have been arrested.



You will NOT treat my family that way, ever. Not with me standing there. I hope those agents can't sleep at night. They are no better in my mind than the JBT.


Yeah I agree. Or load a dirty diaper and throw it in their faces.

[Napoleon's Shadow]

Yeah I agree. Or load a dirty diaper and throw it in their faces.
You'd probably be charged with an act of terrorism (they'd call it biological warfare) and be sent to Leavenworth or Guantanamo; and I'm not even joking about that either.

[Kylie]

You'd probably be charged with an act of terrorism (they'd call it biological warfare) and be sent to Leavenworth or Guantanamo; and I'm not even joking about that either.



You're probably right. Extraordinary rendition for you!

[Napoleon's Shadow]

Mike Church rips the TSA:





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7L9iFEyXgA

[Pericles]

The American people need to decide if they want to live in a country that would do this. My, what we have become. :(

The attack on our country on 9-11 was bad enough. But, it's nothing compared to what we have allowed our government to do in the name of safety and security. Bin Laden would be so proud.

And to think, we used to be the land of the free and the home of the brave.

I was on the NATO / Warsaw Pact border act the end of the cold war. With the collapse of the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact communist countries, I thought that we had done our job, with the minimal loss of life possible, and we could now come home and work on making the US a more prosperous country.

During those years, I wondered what life was like in a communist state - I now have a good enough idea and fear I may not be able to avoid that fight between freedom and tyranny that we were able to some 20 years ago.

[Danke]

"But the federal safety agency hasn't backed down, making some adjustments but no major changes to its policy."

"Every traveler is a critical partner in TSA's efforts to keep our skies safe," Administrator John Pistole, who ordered the new approach, said last fall. "And I know and appreciate that the vast majority of Americans recognize and respect the important work we do."

[UtahApocalypse]

This will explain the problem:

http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa299/Utah4RonPaul/PollTSA.png

39% Approve

[nobody's_hero]

This will explain the problem:

http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa299/Utah4RonPaul/PollTSA.png

39% Approve

I'd like to see what the figures were for 2001, post 9/11. They must be falling, at least. More press coverage helps, too.

Of course, it would only take a small false-flag to boost the polls back in the TSA's favor.