TSA stands by officers after pat-down of elderly woman
Found on CNN on Sunday, 26 June 2011
The Transportation Security Administration stood by its security officers Sunday after a Florida woman complained that her cancer-stricken, 95-year-old mother was patted down and forced to remove her adult diaper while going through security.
"My mother is very ill, she has a form of leukemia," Weber said. "She had a blood transfusion the week before, just to bolster up her strength for this travel."
More recently, outrage erupted over a video-recorded pat-down of a 6-year-old passenger last April at New Orleans' airport.
I said it before, and I'll say it again: the terrorists have won. There's no way to ignore that. By buying a few plane tickets, a handful of terrorists have put the US into a state of shock and fear that makes it possible for the government to set up a level of control and monitoring which would make Orwell proud.