Found this via Uncle.
A Colorado teen is upset with screeners at Salt Lake City International Airport. The type one diabetic says TSA agents were abrupt, rude and were responsible for breaking her $10,000 insulin pump. A pump she has to have to survive.
Savannah Barry is mad and on a mission. She wants travelers to be warned before they walk through TSA security. “They need to get with the program and have some education across the board for TSA.”
They DO get training in the TSA. They’re trained to find contraband and stop terrorists. They have been 100% unsuccessful at that. Further even if they DID catch terrorists and found dangerous weapons (as opposed to nail clippers and novelty lighters) they would be doing it through a blatant disregard of the 4th Amendment, as well as the laws we have against sexual assault.
More training won’t solve this, just like more repairs won’t get that tractor that’s been sitting at the back 40 for the last 50 years running again, or that more research will get those hokey “perpetual motion machines” to ignore the laws of physics.
That dog don’t hunt! Just disband it YESTERDAY and be done with the blue-gloved perverts!
Savannah then showed agents a doctor’s note explaining that the sensitive insulin pump should not go through the body scanner. She says she was told to go through it anyway. “When someone in a position of authority tells you it is – you think that its right. So, I said, Are you sure I can go through with the pump? It’s not going to hurt the pump? And she said no, no you’re fine.”
The 16-year-old walked into the scanner with some serious reservations “My life is pretty much in their hands when I go through a body scan with my insulin pump on.” She was right to be worried. She says the pump stopped working correctly. “Coming off an insulin pump is rough. You never know what is going to happen when you are not on the insulin pump.”
She says TSA agents then made the situation worse when they didn’t know what to do about her juice and insulin. “She said, because we don’t have the machines to scan the juice to make sure this is not an explosive we do have to do a full body pat down and search your through your bags.” Of course, that’s what she wanted in the first place, but it was too late.
The TSA was founded under the misguided intention to keep us safer. In fact all it accomplishes is harming innocent people through sexual assault, wholesale theft, incompetence, and negligent wastes of our time.
No, Don’t Train them, it won’t get any better. DISBAND THEM!
I wish people who have every reason to see the light defend these criminals!
Again: DISBAND THE TSA YESTERDAY!
I suspect TSA “agents” get more training on how to file a grievance with their union than they do in how to perform their supposed function.
That’s it. I’m never getting on an airplane again till these assholes are gone. I, too, have Type I diabetes. I don’t use a pump, but I can imagine the goons taking my insulin and syringes away because they could be a bomb.
This leaves me with one question: When does the revolution start?
These stories always stun me. I know they shouldn’t, but they do. The TSA is a ridiculous illegal mess and has accomplished nothing, I get that, but the thousands of TSA workers are just people. They can’t all be liberal nut cases trying to strip us of our rights. How can this many people be this insensitive and stupid?
That’s why I have no sympathy for any of them. You don’t want to be labeled as a petty bureaucratic pedophile who gets off on your tiny little power trips? Then don’t support those that do. Standing by and accepting what’s going on at their jobs silently gets you no support from me, even if you are just a normal average family man when you get home.
They weren’t drafted into the TSA. I’d say the majority of them are Power-hungry mall ninjas who couldn’t become cops or private security, and the TSA standards are lower than the Fry Chef at Wendy’s, There have been a LOT of Agents busted for child porn, and those are the ones who were caught. I think there are a ton who signed on to touch and look at nude people of their sexual preference.
And then there are the thieves and smugglers who know that the low standards is an easy way to install a loophole in the airline industry.
No I suspect there are VERY few to no good people in the TSA.