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More TSA Stupidity

My favorite anti-heroes, the Terribly Stupid Administration, are at it again. It seems that screeners are getting a little “overzealous” in their searches.

In Chicago, Robert Perry, a 71-year-old wheelchair-bound man, was searched in public view in a see through room because his artificial knee set off a metal detector

“He [the TSA security screener] yelled at me to get the belt off. ‘I told you to get the belt off.’ So I took the belt off. He ran his hands down over and pulled the pants down, they went down around my ankle,” Perry said.

“It’s humiliation…it makes you feel like you have no rights,” Perry said.

At that point, Perry was standing in his underwear in public view. He asked to see a supervisor. That made things worse.

“She was yelling ‘I have power, I have power, I have power,” Perry said. The power to stop him from flying to Florida with his wife that day to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary.

Indeed it does. It also makes me sick to my stomach. Is this really necessary? Do we really have to surrender our basic human dignity to burger-flippers on a power trip to make us safe? Does anyone really feel safer after reading this?

[Michael Angone] frequently flies as a member of the Chicago Children’s Choir.

Her father Bob Angone wanted to know, “What’s the reason for all the feeling up, you know the groping at the back of the neck, the chest, underneath the bra, all the groping on her body, her buttocks?”

“I’ve had to completely take my pants off and show them like my entire leg,” Angone said.

As a baby, Angone was diagnosed with cancer. Her parents, both Chicago police officers, had to have her leg amputated. She said she always warns TSA security agents that her prosthetic leg will set off the metal detector, but many insist on doing an embarrassing full body pat-down.

“I feel like I’m being felt up in public,” Angone said.

That’s a good question, Mr. Angone. I hope your daughter isn’t the victim of another sex offender working at the TSA.

Let it be known that this will not happen to my daughter. A TSA clown will lose some teeth and I will spend some time in jail before I’ll watch some idiot with a false sense of importance get his rocks off feeling up a teenager.

Carlos Villarreal, former director of security for the Sears Tower, said proper training is crucial. “When you’re wanding somebody and you can identify which part of the body set of the alarm, that should be sufficient to clear a person,” Villarreal said.

I agree, Mr. Villarreal. Maybe these morons should hire you to tech them something that should be common sense. Or maybe we should just get rid of this completely worthless organization.