TSA Misleading Public About Adult Diaper Incident

Feeling the heat from the public backlash against the embarrassingly invasive search on June 18, 2011 of a 95-year-old leukemia patient who has to wear a diaper and can barely get around without a wheelchair, the Transportation Security Administration is now attempting to spin the story by saying they never ordered the leukemia patient to remove her diaper.

The official statement from the TSA is, "We have reviewed the circumstances involving this screening and determined that our officers acted professionally, according to proper procedure and did not require this passenger to remove an adult diaper."

While that statement may be technically accurate, it is deliberately misleading. The TSA may have not actually demanded the woman remove the diaper, but Jean Weber, the daughter of the woman, said the TSA agents made it clear the woman was not getting on the plane unless they were able to inspect the diaper (or perhaps have it discarded). Jean Weber decided to remove the diaper.

This is all semantics. The old woman was trying to get on a flight. The TSA would not let her get on the flight until someone removed the diaper. There is not much of a difference here. The TSA can say, "Take off that diaper or else you are not getting on your flight."

Alternatively, the TSA can say, "You are not getting on your flight with that diaper."

There is a difference in those two positions, but the effect is essentially the same. This poor old woman was going to have to take off her diaper or miss her flight.

This is how the TSA operates. The TSA knows they have a tremendous advantage over you at the airport, because they have the power to make you miss the flight for which you paid hundreds of dollars and cause an extraordinary amount of inconvenience as you attempt to arrive in time to make connecting flights, check into hotels, pick up rental cars, etc. The TSA knows they have the ability to dramatically inconvenience you and effectively take away your right to travel freely about the country by air, and they will hold it over your head to get you to comply with all of their disgusting invasions of your privacy.

The TSA can say, "Let us squeeze your testicles and let us rub our hands around your anus, or we will not let you on your flight."

Alternatively, the TSA can say, "You cannot get on that flight unless you voluntarily let us squeeze your testicles and rub our hands around your anus."

The nuances of the differing statements do not really matter much. Essentially, the TSA wants to molest you, and they are going to use the ability to restrict your right to travel to make that happen.

The most ridiculous aspect of this whole adult diaper situation is how we are now engaged in a big public discussion over whether the old woman's diaper was removed by order or voluntarily as a condition of boarding a flight. The real problem here is the federal government is now in our pants. One of the last free places we had in this country was our pants, and now the government feels the need to look around in there too. When the federal government is looking around in the pants and up the dresses of innocent citizens, things have gone terribly wrong.

By the way, if you are taking solace in thinking, if the government is in your pants, at least there is nowhere else for them to invade, do not be so sure. Terrorist, Abdullah Hassan al-Asiri, has already successfully detonated a bomb concealed in his rectum. Do not be so sure the federal government will not want to peek in there someday too. Sure, it sounds like a crazy thought now, but ten years ago, did you ever imagine the federal government would be touching your genitals and taking naked images of you at the airport? You never thought that would happen, but it has been going on the entire time you have been reading this article. We should be absolutely ashamed of ourselves for letting the terrorists win like this. We have played right into their hands by choosing to live in a constant state of fear where privacy, dignity, and freedom mean nothing.

TSA Mischaracterizing Safety of Full-Body Scanners

Don't act surprised. The TSA has not been forthcoming about the safety of their radiation-emitting full-body scanners. Steve Watson of Inforwars is reporting on newly released documents that prove the TSA has been mischaracterizing the safety of the full-body scanners.

"New Documents Prove TSA “Mischaracterized” Safety Aspects of Full-Body Scanners"

One of the most interesting aspects of the article relates to the cancer risk of the full-body scanners. Some TSA workers are developing cancers and questioning whether the scanners are the cause. There is also a quote from Michael Love at Johns Hopkins where he stated “statistically someone is going to get skin cancer from these X-rays.” Even more troubling is the apparent effort to hide from the public that no one really knows how dangerous these full-body scanners may actually be.

Anyone with any sense can see that these full-body scanners have the potential for causing cancer. What we do not know at this point is just how high the risk actually is. Unfortunately, we will not know the actual risk until some credible organization actually conducts a proper safety study of these devises. It is too bad the TSA is overwhelmed with searches of the handicapped ladies' diapers, taking toy hammers from mentally disabled people, grabbing breasts of actresses, patting-down babies, and poking around in the crotches of elementary school kids. The TSA just seems to be too busy to worry about whether or not people are going to get cancer from their scanners.

TSA Makes 95-Year-Old Leukemia Patient Remove Soiled Diaper for Search

Jean Weber of Destin, Florida is angry with the TSA. Her 95-year-old, 105-pound mother, who is battling with leukemia can barely walk. When the elderly leukemia patient went through a TSA checkpoint at the Northwest Florida Regional Airport on June 18, 2011 in a wheelchair, she was selected for an extensive search.

During the search, the TSA told Jean Weber to change her mother's diaper because it was soiled and impeding their search. Jean Weber did remove her mother's diaper, but did not have a fresh one to replace it. Presumably the elderly leukemia patient had to go without out a diaper until someone was able to locate a new one for her.

In all, the elderly, diaper-wearing leukemia patient was detained forty-five minutes. This is disgusting for so many reasons. This poor old woman is battling for her life. She can barely walk and probably has little life left in her. All she wanted to do was get on an airplane, but in order to exercise her right to travel, she had to be treated like a criminal, detained for an excessive amount of time, and humiliated by federal agents in front of her family.

This is the TSA. This is what they do. Do you feel safer?

TSA Harasses Severely Retarded Person in a Diaper over Plastic Hammer

The national disgrace we have come to know as the Transportation Security Administration has sunk to a new low. Not only did TSA screeners feel-up Drew Mandy, a person who is so mentally retarded he has to wear a diaper, they refused to allow him to take his treasured plastic hammer with him on a flight to Disneyland.

Well, you can go ahead and relax, the brave men and women of the TSA have diligently protected us from the greatest threat the skies have ever seen: mentally retarded people armed with plastic hammers. Wow, that was a close one.

"Dr. David Mandy: Special Needs Son Harassed by TSA at Detroit Metropolitan Airport"