Answer truthfully, the TSA worker informed her, and everything will be OK.Ah yes--the same mentality that pulls the wings off flies.
Solomon, 5-foot-3 and traveling alone, looked up at the man in the black shirt and fought back tears.
Put yourself in her place and count out 20 seconds. Her heart pounded. She started to sweat. She panicked at having to explain something she couldn't.
Now picture her expression as the TSA employee started to smile.
Just kidding, he said. He waved the baggie. It was his. [More]
He has authoritah! You must obey him! Your emotions are his to toy with!
Why shouldn't they be? He's empowered to abuse you with no repercussions. What do you expect--respect?
Thing is, and with many such tales, we know the citizen's name--we don't know who the pig--and that's what he is--is. And we're not going to find out.
Davis said privacy law prevents her from identifying the TSA employee. The law prevents her from disclosing what sort of discipline he might have received.Pity that. It means when people have finally had enough, they're liable to take it out on the parties who only abetted things through complicity and silence, as opposed to the "Only Ones" actually responsible for generating deserved hatred.
[Via Brian F]
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if only she'd taken a picture with a cell phone...
sousveillance - c'mon kids!
The story was updated to say the thug was no longed employed by TSA. Did not say if he was fired or quit.
Thanks for shining the light on these long train of abuses and usurpations. We will remember.
III
When will enough be enough?
When will this "long train of abuses and usurpation pursuing a single object" finally resurrect the ghost of Patrick Henry?
This is a symptom of an absolutely intolerable situation, and we as Americans need to stand and say no, backing it up with lead if we have to.
What until the body scanning results in pictures of lovely lasses appearing on the internet.
Sort of government-sanctioned like up-skirting.
What a retard. This might be funny in a movie or a sitcom, you don't do stuff like this to people in real life.
I wonder if the agent is getting the two confused, some time at a hospital might be called for.
"A man may conduct himself well in both adversity and good fortune, but if you want to test his character, give him power." - Abraham Lincoln (considering what Ole Abe did to the editors and publishers who protested his unconstitutional "draft", were he alive today he'd be standing right alongside the TSA thugs)
Your U.S. senator and congressman know about this abuse. So do the head of TSA, the local airport commission, police and chamber of commerce, and your state legislators. And the airlines, and the travel agents. It has become merely the price of doing business in a world where terrorist threats exist.
In other words, they have let the terrorists accomplish their goal: diminishing freedom.
Mr. Boycott had the right idea. Starve them.
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