From the article: “She said she wanted a patdown…”

I don’t feel sorry for anything that happens to anybody who consents to be searched without a warrant or probable cause. Her proper response should have been, “you’re not searching me unless you can produce a search warrant or demonstrate probable cause.” I hope she loses her case, and that everybody who consents to be searched is strip-searched, groped, and videoed for the amusement of TSA workers.

PC crap; just to make it look like they are not profiling, they strip and grope our white, northern European stock grandmothers. This is nothing new. In london in 2001, we were coming back from Norway visiting relatives, and the persons they took out of line on our flight were not the darker Middle-Easterners, but me and my elderly mother, who are both very fair.

Passengers need to be supportive of each other in the security lines. Recently my Husband and I were flying out of FLL on our way to Mexico. Apparently my Husband wasn’t moving fast enough to get his shoes off. A big, burley Agent screamed at him “Don’t You Listen? Look at me! You need to keep moving forward!” I replied to him in a loud voice “No! He can’t hear you. He’s a disabled Viet Nam Vet!” Other passengers exclaimed their disapproval towards the Agent and he actually left in embarresment to the cheers of us all!

The entire scenario is insane…What are they going to do if they actually find a bomb in someones shorts? How did the bomb get into the building to begin with? Well, it came right in the front door where there is no bomb security…Anyone can enter a crowded terminal with a bomb, undetected…This means that while the flights are safe, the crowed terminal is dangerous…Bomb searches should be done in the parking lot across the street, and only cleared people and baggage can enter the building…

You want to get rid of this kind of TSA treatment? Convert to Islam, or kick the ragheads out. There is not much inbetween for a religion that condemns you to death for depicting their prophet, or for refusing to either convert or pay an “other” tax.

The TSA screening is nothing more than a sham attempt to make us feel safe to fly. Last summer my husband had to be patted down because he had forgotten his sunglasses in his pocket. They were so focused on his pocket that they overlooked that he had left his quart zip lock bag inside his carry on, instead of putting it in the tray. Meanwhile, a man in a big flowing robe was allowed to pass through without any further screening. Also, the TSA agents confiscated water, deemed too dangerous to allow on an airplane, but disposed of it in a trash bin in the screening area. And what about the teen who was told she’d have to check her purse, because it had a “replica” of a gun on it. Has anyone ever been killed by a ladies handbag? Seriously…

The TSA is now a greater threat to the American public than the terrorists we once feared. When you fear your government you live in tyranny. We have no leadership anywhere in Homeland Security or TSA. We are being led by incompetents and thugs.

I’m sure that employing pedophiles or sex offenders is not on the TSA “protocol” but the fact is they do both. When normal people who have nothing to hide protest about the TSA invasions the TSA takes that to mean that person has something to hide and the bravado behind the badge takes over. If you are #7 in line and that number is the lucky number for having your privacy invaded it makes no difference if the person behind you fits a certain profile, they go through without a hitch. Then you get TSA agents that can barely speak English and your privacy is invaded by someone with a green card. I recently went through a scanner that showed all these “questionable” areas and I had to go through a pat down. I asked the gal what all these questionable areas on the screen were because I had absolutely no metal whatsoever on me. She said that perhaps they were “folds in my clothes”… I looked at her and said “Look at me, I’m fat and fill out my clothes, there are no wrinkles!” I figured they would use some common sense on these screenings, but have decided that would be too much of a stretch for people who perhaps graduated the lower 10% of their classes.

If everybody STOPPED FLYING maybe they would get the message. It’s like the Gestapo at the train stations in Nazi Germany.

I have an artificial hip and am a senior. I AVOID flying.

As we all know, a US woman cannot lie. And by law, there is some man guilty somewhere that needs to be punished. There should also be another unappreciated, special rights law that protects just women from anything that offends them at anytime. That would be fair and American, right N.O.W.?.

All the TSA’s actions should be recorded including all security procedures at the airport – sane as in a bank. Case closed.

15 minutes of fame?

How many times have you seen headlines with senior citizens arrested of doing things you would never expect? It’s not until you get your next underwear or shoe bomber you’ll be glad that we have the TSA. I agree their annoying but, a necessary evil
Regarding the Racist comments above…who do you think are the TSA once you leave NYC? Get out more, see the world and expand your small mind. It’s always the people who never go more than a 5 mile radius of their home who want to tell you what the world is like LOL!!

The TSA has been abusing people for years. I’ve been compiling accounts:
bit.ly/TravelUndergroundTSAabuses

The abuse will continue and only get worse because so many Americans have shown they’re willing to put up with it.

There is no doubt that TSA is strip searching people, though they claim that they don’t.

In arguments in US District Court the government argued that TSA has the absolute right to strip search passengers. They therefore will, and obviously do, strip search people, their “lady doth protest too much” statements to the contrary. Merely do a search for “EPIC TSA strip search” and read about half way down that page.

TSA is a disgrace and should be abolished. There is no redemption for this band of perverts, child molesters, thieves, and drug smugglers. They are simply a collection of the worst incompetents ever assembled and couldn’t stop a terrorist from boarding a plane if they tried. In fact, TSA at JFK allowed the Times Square Bomber to sail right through while his bomb was smoking in the city.

Disgraceful. You TSA employees who read these comments know this: America hates you. We recognize you as the greatest threat to American ideals and way of life. You are all an embarrassment to yourselves, your families, and this nation. FOAD. Every last one of you. FOAD.

The TSA does strip search flyers, but perhaps that perverted agency doesn’t believe it’s a strip search unless all of one’s clothes are removed.

A poster at http://www.travelunderground.org has reminded us that DHS, the parent of TSA, has said it believes it has the right to strip search each and every traveler. It said in a federal courtroom in, I believe, June.

There is no “dignity and respect” shown to travelers at a checkpoint. How can there be when screeners are trained to view each and every traveler as a potential terrorist?

On the TSA Blog, Blogger Bob wrote:

“The passenger (Mrs. Zimmerman) opted out of advanced imaging technology screening, requested a pat-down and told the officers that she was wearing a back brace or support belt which required private screening. ”

Someone is lying and I don’t think it is Mrs. Zimmerman.

The TSA messed up once again and is trying to place the blame on the passenger.

One of these days, a passenger is going to die because of the TSA’s actions at a checkpoint.

All of these so-called security measures are a show to give the illusion of safety. It is appropriate to use non-invasive sniffers to check for chemical residues, and detectors for metallic weapons. The greatest degree of safety in the air come from sky marshals and observant citizens. And yes, there is a profile for terrorists. El Al has used profiling for years and has a splendid safety record. Strip searching Granny or patting down a toddler shows the stupidity of current protocols. And think about how many “test” bombs have passed through screening at all 3 NYC airports as part of a quality review. Current screening techniques are as silly as trying to erect a flag pole after the building has been demolished! After all, a pencil and 8-10 inches of dental floss can be used to kill — why aren’t they prohibied???

These two reports raise some serious questions about the extent of the TSA abuses in our airports. They deny that strip searches are not part of their screening protocol, which is obviously a lie in view of five other similar reports this year. How many others have gone unreported?

Pulling down a person’s pants and underwear meet most definitions of a strip search. This agency has been flagrantly assaulting people for a year now and has only been emboldened by their ability to get away with even the most egregious violations of basic standards of decency.

TSA has repeatedly denied these types of abuses occur and usually blame the victim. This is the sort of defense that one would expect from a rapist or other assailant, not a Federal agency. The screeners and supervisors in these incidents must be prosecuted for what is clearly a criminal offense.

This is at least the sixth reported TSA strip search of a passenger this year including the strip search of Shoshana Hebshi in Detroit on September 11th. In that incident TSA acknowledged that the search was recorded.

How extreme must these TSA assaults become before Congress demands reform of this agency? This is the same agency that has had 62 screeners arrested for serious crimes, including murder and 10 charged with child sex crimes. This agency is obviously out of control and needs to be replaced.

Re the Zimmerman and Sherman cases: I am appalled! Same thing happened to me two years ago in a much smaller airport in Washington State. I wore trousers instead of a dress, and the woman tried to pull them down while telling me to keep my arms up, but I kept reaching for my elastic waist band. This was right out in public, mind you! I protested loudly but she persisted anyway until a male TSA agent appeared on the scene and I was sent back out into the terminal. The male agent quietly ushered me back into line, assured me I wouldn’t miss my flight, but still all my belongings had to be sent through the scanner again. I had to run for it to make it through the gate, in stocking feet, arms loaded with stuff, including shoes. Shameful! Shameful!

after hearing of these instances my mother who is in her late 70 s and now disabled from a stroke and uses a cane or walker refuses to fly for the holidays or ever my sister lives in san francisco and will now always have to come here to visit us the tsa has put fear in my mother s mind that this could happen to her what kind of nonhuman behaviour is this dont those tsa workers know or have senoor citizens in thier own families would they like this to happen to thier parents or grandparents something must be done for accountability here

I refuse to fly because of the TSA. Because of them I will die without ever having been able to leave this state. This isn’t right, people should not have to live in fear of being sexually harassed by a government thug. I don’t understand what happened to this country or to my Constitution. I never thought I would live to see the day when the country I was born in turns into a police state. The worst part is that it doesn’t even make any sense, why are WE the U.S. citizens the enemy? I thought the enemy was in the Middle east?

This is not the America I grew up in. Very Sad.

ghetto people working for the us government.

I meant to write: “Dough boy of a security czar, Napolitano, head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security”.

In Cass Sunstein’s theory “Nudge” he seems to forget that nudging works both ways and TSA & HLS is about to learn that. It is by no accident that Obama chose the most milquetoast butchy Pillsbury Dough boy of a security that he could find to project America’ new non-exceptional role in the world, The most effective way to destroy a superpower is from within. Obama is almost everything that Jimmy Carter hoped to be and accomplish.