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Although I hate TSA with a passion, I don't agree with her comment that she should somehow be "exempt" from this treatment while everyone else is required to go through it.
Here was her comment:
"there has to be some way that at age 84 I can get some clearance by the POWERS of Government from this procedure."
Nobody can get clearance. TSA searches young children as well as elderly adults, people with disabilities, men, women people of all races, religions, sexual orientation and both genders.
I also ponder whether victim cards need expiration dates. Yes, terrible unforgivable things happened 'way back when. I doubt TSA made a point of looking her up before subjecting her to some extra abuse.
She is 4'9 and uses a walker, at that age and physical ability she should have some recourse available to bypass "some" of the tsa inspection. That should be available to anyone in that condition not just survivors.
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Originally Posted by AllisonHB
I also ponder whether victim cards need expiration dates. Yes, terrible unforgivable things happened 'way back when. I doubt TSA made a point of looking her up before subjecting her to some extra abuse.
Her and her sister have been in a few documentaries about the holocaust. They were experimented on by Dr Mengele
I also ponder whether victim cards need expiration dates. Yes, terrible unforgivable things happened 'way back when. I doubt TSA made a point of looking her up before subjecting her to some extra abuse.
TSA doesn't care about anyone, basically. They're not nice people.
Although I hate TSA with a passion, I don't agree with her comment that she should somehow be "exempt" from this treatment while everyone else is required to go through it.
Here was her comment:
"there has to be some way that at age 84 I can get some clearance by the POWERS of Government from this procedure."
Nobody can get clearance. TSA searches young children as well as elderly adults, people with disabilities, men, women people of all races, religions, sexual orientation and both genders.
They do so no matter how slight the risk such a person statistically poses. The screening process seems more interested in political correctness than in preventing actual terrorism. It is an extremely cumbersome process. I've seen bunches of white Caucasian women lined up with baby strollers all going through the metal detector despite the fact that such a person with a baby is extremely unlikely to commit a terrorist act.
We've abandoned good sense and we spend about $6 billion a year to fund TSA too.
You do know that something like 99.99999% are people TSA examines are neither terrorists nor would-be terrorists, right?
Maybe you don't.
Anyway, that's how it works. You don't identify a security threat and then search them. You search people in order to identify security threats. Further, even most targeted security systems include a randomized element as part of their search practices - for rather obvious reasons.
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