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Video: Frightened Three Year Old With Cast Searched by TSA
According to a video (below) filmed by Matt Dubiel, his three-year-old son was subjected to a thorough search by a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agent at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport in 2010.
In the Spring of 2010, Dubiel's family was on their way to Disney World, in Orlando, Florida, when they were stopped at a security checkpoint.
The video shows the little boy sitting in a wheelchair with a cast on his leg, trembling as he is searched by the TSA agent. Dubiel said he was not allowed to touch or come near his son during the search.
However, he did videotape most of the search: “They didn’t want me to record it with our regular camera. They made me put the cameras away but they allowed me to maintain with my iPhone."
He posted the video of the search on YouTube over the weekend and it has since gone viral.
Dubiel told Fox News that he decided to post the video after rediscovering the footage over the weekend: “I watched the video with my 10-year-old and my heart starting beating real fast, I started getting angry, a rash of emotions and then I had to explain to my 10-year-old what was happening and why I allowed it to happen.”
“Some people have said I’m a bad parent for allowing that to happen to my child. Most people focus on my son and the experience that he was clearly going through. He was physically trembling.”
A TSA spokesman said they were aware of the video, but did not provide a comment.
Rules governing searches of passengers under the age of 12-years-old were revised in 2011.
Dubiel said he did not file a formal complaint with the TSA.
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The TSA is the primary reason
The TSA is the primary reason I refuse to fly unless there's no other option available to me. The majority of my vacations are now to places within driving range of home, mostly because I don't feel anything at the other end of a plane ride is worth the degradation and humiliation of attending the security theater.
What we've seen with the TSA and with giving flight attendants unchallenged power to have passengers arrested for being disagreeable is that the louder you proclaim the utmost need for security at the expense of freedom and dignity, the more certain it is there will be a revolt.
Not one thing the Terminally
Not one thing the Terminally Stupid Administration has ever done has made anyone safer. But that was never the intent. The sole purpose was to accustom Americans to the idea that they no longer were free people.
"Naturally, the common people don't want war, but after all, it is the leaders of a country who determine policy. It is always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it is a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. This is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country."
Hermann Goering Hitler's Reich-Marshall at the Nuremberg trials after WW II
Very good response James, of
Very good response James, of course many in society doubt that our government has the intent on making our lives more difficult and that every incident of this nature is always met with resistance from the TSA and the DHS like it will never happen again, until it does. How do we go from frisking terror suspects to little kids, elderly women and other innocents in our community without batting an eye or crying foul. This man didn't even say anything about it and just sat and watched like there was nothing he could do; this is America we have Constitutional rights people wake up and smell what is coming. This doesn't just happen in airports anymore, more and more people are pulled over and the police ask to look in trunks of cars and other parts of vehicles and many let them, like they have no right to say NO!
The TSA is a joke, run by the
The TSA is a joke, run by the same people who ran it 11 years ago and failed. When the call went out to recruit more people they tested many and ended up re-hiring most of the same people back at Government pay scale with benefits. These people act like they are untouchable because they are, make a complaint and who really cares, no one gets fired and no one pays for mistakes. They call it random checks yet we as a society allowed this to happen to "protect" ourselves. Freedoms that we gave up and continue to give up because we don't mind "a little inconvenience". Even this guy couldn't have been bothered to make a complaint or argue for his own kid. Pathetic.
TSA: keeping America safe
TSA: keeping America safe from rogue 3 year olds and little old ladies for the benefit of keeping us afraid of the terrorists that sneak past them all the time and far too easily.
And special thanks to Homeland Insecurity for helping this ignorance to continue and the GOP fear-mongers that made it all happen and keeps it alive.
The more we focus on US citizens as suspects, the better the terrorists like it.
The insanity principle is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results. The far right, the far left, vegans, creationists and other extremists believe in the insanity principle, religiously.
Apparently you have forgotten
Apparently you have forgotten that everyone was afraid after 9/11 and every politician in 2001 agreed with many of these policies for air travel as well as the public agreeing that the Government had to ensure that air travel was safe again. We as a society gave up freedoms. Stop blaming the GOP when the Dems could have made changes in the last 4 years and haven't. It is easy to say now 11 years later, but I haven't seen the Dems change any policy and have actually continued with the Patriot Act and made many parts of it harsher in terms of American Citizens.
Nor have we seen the GOP
Nor have we seen the GOP change policies even after 11 years of being told what DOES work what does not work. REFUSING to listen to the experts, real experts, in the field of counter-terrorism who have been at their trade for longer than most of these politicians have been out of school. Yet, because some GOP corporate puppeteer comes up with a nice new EXPENSIVE technology for the government to buy, they go for it, citing "better" security; a lie, to be sure, but one that people buy in to.
Yes, I am talking about the body scanners, that our tax dollars are paying for, that are easy enough to defeat, as demonstrated recently by a blogger on Youtube (he made the news on that one). There is a reason that the Israeli's, the premier experts in countering terrorism, refuse to buy it. Far too many of us didn't think of that one because too many have been conned into buying into the idea that surrendering our freedom to travel is somehow safer?
It does not make us safer. All it does is show the terrorists that they are winning. When they are the ones afraid to travel and afraid to fight out in the open, then the free world wins and the terrorists lose. The Israeli operation after the Munich games attack proved that.
Many of the adverse changes are still in place simply because it is easier to get society to live with fewer rights and freedoms than to get government to undo bad policies that do not work; particularly when those bad policies increase the government's power over the people and creates a money pit for them to throw our tax dollars into, which helps rich political donors.
Fact of the matter is that we are fighting a defensive war on terrorism, and as General George S. Patton once said, "No one has ever won a defensive war". We win by taking the fight to the enemy, not by putting ourselves in a prison of our own making. Anyone that has studied siege warfare knows that.
The insanity principle is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results. The far right, the far left, vegans, creationists and other extremists believe in the insanity principle, religiously.
I don't disagree but to blame
I don't disagree but to blame one side for the whole debacle is ignorance. The fact is that politicians have a mindset that is reactive, you are right that we need to be on the offensive but terrorism is a war that you can't win in a traditional sense. Body scanners are invasive and yet the left has not seen fit to dismiss them as part of the Patriot act that they signed into law while being in the majority for the last 2 years of Bush's term and first two years of Obama's so there is a disconnect in your line of reasoning.
Politics and politicians have a vested interest in the public being more compliant with the way things are they can use success or hindrance as a means to get re-elected against opponents. Politics is a chess game that each side plays yet the American people are the pawns that lose.
Actually, terrorism is a war
Actually, terrorism is a war that you can win. But it is a 4 pronged attack.
1. Education. Terrorists love to work among the undereducated, since they are the best suited to be molded into thinking what they are told is true, without regard to facts. The abortion clinic/doctor attacks have proven that in this country. A good education reduces the recruiting pool for terrorist groups.
2. Aggressive surgical and covert hunts to go after the terrorists and, most specifically, their leadership. This worked for the Israelis after the Munich games and without the invasive measures that we currently use here, Ben Gurien Airport is still the most secure in the world.
3. The entire free world must work together, sharing intell and cooperating with each other in dealing with terrorism. Currently, only the US, Israel, Great Britain and Germany do that consistently.
4. We need to walk our talk as regards the rights of citizens of other nations that we have troops in. It helps the terrorists when they hear us talking about rights and freedom on the one hand while randomly attacking civilian populations with the other. War zones, such as we saw in WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan are a bit different, but until Vietnam, we have always worked very hard at not targeting non-strategic/tactical civilian targets. We keep saying that is what our enemies do, so we should not become our enemy.
None of that is easy, nor is it an overnight solution. It may take a generation or more, but it is doable.......IF we can get our politicians and the rest of the free world behind it enough to act on those goals.
The insanity principle is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results. The far right, the far left, vegans, creationists and other extremists believe in the insanity principle, religiously.
Like I said we can't win the
Like I said we can't win the war on Terrorism :) There is no politician willing to do what is necessary to do this,
education is something that we are losing in our own country let alone in countries that cannot be controlled. Overzealous religious cultures that control countries which support terrorism are not going to be a changed and we have fought a decade long war in two countries that has changed very little in the way of thinking in those countries.
Surgical and coverts hunts would not be approved by the entire free world since we can't even get the world to agree about certain aspects of the war in the Middle East.
We as a country have already created more terrorists with attacks on civilian targets and with continued support of countries that also take on its own citizens. Obama just intervened in the pardon of a Yemeni journalist who exposed killings of civilians by US weapons. This journalist is then targeted for collaboration with the enemy because he has done interviews with the Taliban and with terrorists, yet a few years prior and was arrested months after his reporting of the information on the Yemen and US collaboration.
We need politicians who are willing to do what is necessary but we will never see them come to light, it would be political suicide to put these types of actions into place and that would never happen.
Good comment. You're right,
Good comment. You're right, it is time to correct many of the mistakes we made during a panic time. But BHO is really the chosen replacement for Bush. What has he changed? Nada.
The entire point was to bring the citizens under more government control. "Ve must zee your papers." Every dictator that ever lived must be smiling to see how far freedom has fallen.
It's always been difficult to
It's always been difficult to undo damage done through bad legislation. Look at how long it took to get the vote for women, or the vote for blacks in the south. And look at the Citizens United decision; there has been a huge groundswell against it and the President has shown his support to an amendment to remove the status of "personhood" from corporations, so where is the change coming from there? Where are the rest of the politicians that should be working toward that goal as the people wish?
That is where it needs to change, even more so than just in the White House.
This is not something that a single president can undo in only 4 years; maybe not even in 8, but when that time is up for that president, we MUST ABSOLUTELY insure that the progress that is made continues.
And, as all of the thinking people will agree, that can only happen when we pay very close attention to who we elect and what they are doing, not just saying, while running for office. We need to have better choices than just the lesser of two evils. I do know that the GOP is not giving us the lesser of any evils anymore. That began around the middle/end of Nixon's presidency.
The insanity principle is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results. The far right, the far left, vegans, creationists and other extremists believe in the insanity principle, religiously.
Continuing progress in what
Continuing progress in what aspects since we haven't made much in progress as of late in either work related or corporate related matters. Government continues to be owned by the largest bidders and will continue to be no matter who is in charge.
Why can't other politician's get behind these changes? Democrats had the Congress and the White House for 2 years and yet little change happened except to spend money $2.2 trillion in Chinese Funds not including what was spent in the last two years of Bush's Presidency when Democrats controlled Congress, about $1.1 Trillion. The blame falls on no one person's shoulders and on politicians as a whole and while the GOP is not giving any good candidates I would say that ended in the 80's with Reagan. It always seems to come down to voting for an either or with the Democrats and Republicans in the last couple of decades either the devil you know or don't.
This was fixed weeks ago when
This was fixed weeks ago when it happened for the 3r or 4th time. I believe the white people should scream racial profiling. The supervisor should should be fired.