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The TSA has announced that the procedure for pat downs of children are to change. The TSA promises more changes are coming.
Airport security workers will now be told to make repeated attempts to screen young children without resorting to invasive pat-downs, the head of the Transportation Security Administration said Wednesday. The agency is working to put that change in place around the country, and it should reduce, but not eliminate, pat-downs for children, an agency spokesman said.
The only real acceptable change would be to eliminate the TSA.
Terrorists in other countries have used children as young as 10 years old as suicide bombers, Pistole said, although that hasn’t happened in the U.S. “We need to use common sense,” he told lawmakers.
Unfortunately, the low-paid, low-skilled TSA workers lack common sense. You need skilled individuals who can ask pertinent questions to determine risk. If you hire people from the lower rungs of society, you aren’t going to get employees who can do the job adequately.
Ken Wooden, founder of Child Lures Prevention is an expert in child sexual abuse and he is angry at the TSA. TSA officers have been told to make the new pat downs into a game in an effort to make children more cooperative at the security gate.
Telling a child that they are engaging in a game is “one of the most common ways” that sexual predators use to convince children to engage in inappropriate contact, Wooden told Raw Story.
Children “don’t have the sophistication” to distinguish between a pat-down carried out by an airport security officer and an assault by a sexual predator, he said.
The TSA policy could “desensitize children to inappropriate touch and ultimately make it easier for sexual offenders to prey on our children,” Wooden added.
“How can experts working at the TSA be so incredibly misinformed and misguided to suggest that full body pat downs for children be portrayed as a game?” Wooden asked in an email. “To do so is completely contrary to what we in the sexual abuse prevention field have been trying to accomplish for the past thirty years.”
TSA regional security director James Marchand thinks anything that makes the process easier for his staff is perfectly fine.
“You try to make it as best you can for that child to come through. If you can come up with some kind of a game to play with a child, it makes it a lot easier,” said Marchand, promising to make it part of TSA training.
TSA administrator John Pistole has said he may change the pat down procedure for children and victims of sexual abuse. He has not said how adults could identify or prove that they were victims.
The TSA is truly ignorant and stupid if they think this was ever a good idea.
Email the TSA and let them know what you think about the illegal pat downs and scans:
John.Pistole@dhs.gov
DHS Janet.Napolitano@dhs.gov
YouTube user, SpinRemover, shows you what John Pistole really meant.
John Pistole, the head of the TSA said today that a pat down of a woman went too far when a TSA agent felt inside the woman’s underwear.
An ABC News employee said she was subject to a “demeaning” search at Newark Liberty International Airport Sunday morning.
“The woman who checked me reached her hands inside my underwear and felt her way around,” she said. “It was basically worse than going to the gynecologist. It was embarrassing. It was demeaning. It was inappropriate.”
That search was against protocols and “never” should have happened, TSA administrator Pistole told “Good Morning America” today.
“There should never be a situation where that happens,” Pistole said. “The security officers are there to protect the traveling public. There are specific standard operating protocols, which they are to follow.”
