Loss of Privacy

Last week, a story made the rounds of how the TSA harassed and terrorized three-year old Lucy Forck in a wheelchair so much that she no longer wanted to go on her trip to Disney World. The TSA has now issued a sort of apology to the little girl and her parents.

From TownHall.com’s Todd Starns:

“TSA regrets inaccurate guidance was provided to this family during screening and offers its apology,” a TSA spokesman told me in an email.

The TSA also admitted their agents made another mistake. Passengers are allowed to film TSA procedures. And they also said Lucy should never have been subjected to a pat-down.

This is a slightly better response than the ones that Shelbi Walser, Rocco Dubiel and Isabella Brademeyer got. All this shows is a history of abusing little children and violating the terms of why the TSA is at the airport. John Pistole, the head of the TSA, has repeatedly told the American public that this sort of behavior won’t be tolerated and isn’t supposed to happen, yet it occurs so regularly that only a fool would believe him.

You can read the TSA’s full response here.

From the Boston Herald:

Cops snared 55 Massachusetts men in a sweeping, multi-agency child pornography crackdown — including a Transportation Security Administration officer assigned to Logan International Airport who is just the latest embarrassment for the troubled federal agency.

TSA agent Jose E. Salgado, 59, of Chelsea was suspended from his job after his employers learned that local law enforcement agencies are pursuing criminal charges against him for the possession and sharing of pornographic images of children.

Periodic arrests of TSA agents on sex charges across the nation have fueled criticism of the agency’s screening of its own employees, tasked with patting down the traveling public and keeping the airways safe. At least two other TSA officers assigned to Logan have faced sex charges in the past two years. Sex charges against others have been reported in Virginia, New Hampshire, Nevada, Georgia and other states.

The TSA has become a magnet for child pornographers, sex offenders, and thieves. It’s gotten so bad that there’s a master list that’s frequently updated.

A toddler in a wheelchair is stopped by the TSA at ORD (O’Hare Airport in Chicago) and forced to into a sequestered area. On his way to a family vacation in Disney, this 3 year old boy is in a body cast for a broken leg. Despite assurances from his father that “everything is ok”, he is physically trembling with fear while he watches his two siblings, mother, father, grandfather and grandmother pass through along with everyone else…only to be singled out.

He simply does not understand what is happening and why.

I thought the TSA wouldn’t be patting down children anymore?