Comments | polaris93: Meg McLain Singled out by the TSA, Molested by Them, Cuffed to a Chair, Her Ticket Ripped Up

polaris93

Meg McLain Singled out by the TSA, Molested by Them, Cuffed to a Chair, Her Ticket Ripped Up

Nov 14, 2010 19:07

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJGvsAgpfig)

Update 2: TSA releases security video. It vindicates her. Oops. http://wewontfly.com/tsa-videos-meg-mRead more... )

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Comments 9

mosinging1986 November 15 2010, 03:25:49 UTC

I am halfway through listening to this. UNBELIEVABLE!

I wonder what will happen if EVERYONE just said no and refused to be treating this way. They can't detain/jail us all.

polaris93 November 15 2010, 03:28:04 UTC

The benefit of having this on Youtube and hence available to the Blogosphere is that it won't take long until at least half the people in this country have seen it -- including a number of conservative legal organizations and related groups that exist to defend the constitutional rights of the American people. There will be a huge dust-up in the courts over this -- bet on it. It'll get so embarassing for the TSA that heads will roll there and in other government agencies. One more set of Great Big Black Eyes for Obama and his administration.

mosinging1986 November 15 2010, 03:31:08 UTC

Indeed. I can't imagine going through this. I'd be terrified. Not to mention furious!

It has to stop, and I think it will. With the holidays coming up, I cannot imagine people putting up with this insanity.

polaris93 November 15 2010, 03:31:59 UTC

It'll take a while for this to play out, and there will be more incidents in the interim. Which will make more and more people furious over it, which will ultimately do a great deal of good. But the fury has to come first.

What ever happened to the Fourth Amendment? justgoto November 15 2010, 05:54:40 UTC

It went by the (random check drunk driver checkpoint) wayside.

brezhnev November 16 2010, 10:52:03 UTC

They really messed up here. Somewhere or another, there's going to be some fallout.

It does bring back memories, though. At age 17, I got felt up pretty good at an airport. This was in London, BTW. It was a bit ironic that the security guard doing this looked a lot like Muammar Qadafi.

polaris93 November 16 2010, 19:10:58 UTC

They really messed up here. Somewhere or another, there's going to be some fallout.

I foresee a thoroughgoing revitalization of Greyhound Bus and the railroads when it comes to cross-country travel in North America. Plus, any more, using the Internet, it's getting easier and easier to find out where any given individual lives. The airport gropers may find themselves in very precarious situations one of these days, without another airport screener in sight to help hold the fort.

It does bring back memories, though. At age 17, I got felt up pretty good at an airport. This was in London, BTW. It was a bit ironic that the security guard doing this looked a lot like Muammar Qadafi.

Oy! What year was that?

brezhnev November 17 2010, 00:00:30 UTC

That was 1985.

Unfortunately, half the rail we had 70 years ago is gone, and Greyhound sucks always.

polaris93 November 17 2010, 00:32:47 UTC

Greyhound is rapidly approaching a superior position vis-a-vis the airports when it comes to sucking. As for the railways, if more and more people want to travel by rail, somebody, somewhere will decide to make money accommodating them, and . . .