The Ultimate Hummilation

CNN) -- The Transportation Security Administration has denied that its agents required a 95-year-old woman to remove her adult diaper last week before allowing her to pass a screening checkpoint at Northwest Florida Regional Airport.

"While every person and item must be screened before entering the secure boarding area, TSA works with passengers to resolve security alarms in a respectful and sensitive manner," the agency said Sunday night in a statement. "We have reviewed the circumstances involving this screening and determined that our officers acted professionally, according to proper procedure and did not require this passenger to remove an adult diaper."

A response released earlier Sunday by the TSA said that the agency had reviewed the circumstances "and determined that our officers acted professionally and according to proper procedure."

The woman's daughter, Jean Weber, told CNN on Monday that the TSA agents acted professionally and never ordered the removal of her mother's diaper. However, Weber said the agents made it clear that her mother could not board the plane unless they were able to inspect the diaper. According to Weber, it was her idea to remove the diaper so it could be inspected and they could make their flight.
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"They were doing their job according to the instructions of the TSA and their policies," Weber said, later adding that the options offered them were to remove the diaper or "she was not going to get on the plane."

On Sunday, Weber told CNN that the June 18 incident occurred when she and her mother were traveling from northwest Florida to Michigan, where her mother was planning to move in with other relatives prior to moving into an assisted-living facility.

"My mother is very ill, she has a form of leukemia," Weber said Sunday. "She had a blood transfusion the week before, just to bolster up her strength for this travel."
At a security checkpoint, a TSA officer ushered the wheelchair-bound woman into a glassed-in area where a pat-down was performed, Weber said. Weber said an agent told her "they felt something suspicious on (her mother's) leg and they couldn't determine what it was" -- leading them to take her into a private, closed room.

Soon after, Weber said, a TSA agent told her that her mother's Depend undergarment was "wet and it was firm, and they couldn't check it thoroughly." But her mother had no clean diapers in her carry-on luggage and the departure time for the plane was approaching, Weber said.

"They said, 'You can get her luggage back to get more out of her luggage,' but the luggage was checked and I didn't know how long it would take to get her luggage," Weber said. "I asked if I could take the wet Depends off and they said yes but said I had to take her back to the lobby of the airport -- to the restroom out of the screening area."
She said she and her mother then went to a bathroom and removed the wet diaper, then went back through the screening checkpoint.

Weber said her mother, a nurse for 65 years, "was very calm" despite being bothered by the fact that she went on to complete her journey without underwear.
By this weekend, the elder woman -- who was not identified by name -- was doing "fine" in Michigan with her relatives, Weber said Sunday.

Read more at http://www.cnn.com/2011/TRAVEL/06/27/florida.tsa.incident/index.html

This is so utterly outrageous I'm speechless.

Those people are paid to be paranoid in a very unhealthy way for all concerned. It's absolutely ridiculous.

Without having actually been there, this situation seems outrageous. No one should have to go through that. In general, I am a bit ambiguous about security. Obviously, this is a VERY dangerous world, especially with all of the fancy technology floating around. Which leads me to wonder, what about threats which might be external to an aircraft, or which might be external to any passenger activity. Is this TSA phenomenon more psychological warfare than security substance? Have our borders been properly secured? Are the container ships being properly and EFFECTIVELY searched? Have gratuitous violence and depictions of terrorism been eliminated from all sources of entertainment, including motion pictures and video games? If the really bad@$$ people and organizations want to pull something off, I doubt that TSA would be able to stop them in their tracks. Think about it. Are the REAL threats to the general public being properly handled? Just wondering...

Exactly Oxy. With the technology they have today a terrorist doesn't need to get onto an airplane to destroy something. It's all just a show for the public to dominate and control, to create fear and obedience in them. There are plenty of areas where far more damage could be done that don't have the same levels of security, our dams for instance.

“Anti-Groping” Bill Passes In Texas
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– June 28, 2011(Edit Post)Posted in: Breaking News, Politics, USA

shtf news small Transportation Security Administration Logo Anti Groping Bill Passes In Texas– STAR TELEGRAM

The bill would expand the federal definition of “official oppression” to ban federal employees from improperly touching a person’s private areas. Violations would constitute a Class A misdemeanor, punishable by up to one year in jail and a maximum $4,000 fine.

The Transportation Security Administration opposes the measure and has threatened legal action if it becomes law.

The revised bill has changes urged by the Texas attorney general’s office to help counter possible constitutional hurdles. One key change allows agents to argue, as an element of defense, that they believed that they were acting within the scope of the Constitution.
http://www.shtfnews.com/anti-groping-bill-passes-texas/

– Reuters

“We’ve been working with the Attorney General’s office from the very beginning to ensure that the bill will accomplish our goal of stopping the humiliation of travelers while also maintaining language that will withstand judicial scrutiny,” Simpson said in a statement on Monday.The major change in the House’s amended bill, Simpson said, is a requirement that the TSA agent have “reasonable suspicion” before conducting an enhanced pat-down, a less stringent standard than the “probable cause” in the original measure.

The requirement to have probable cause before frisking an individual caused concern among Texas police officers, afraid it would make it more difficult to conduct routine searches of suspects — and not just in airports.

“We’re concerned about the entire jump to probable cause,” said Charley Wilkison, the chief lobbyist for the Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas, which represents police organizations. “We’re concerned about officers not being able to do their jobs.”

The revised House bill also includes a provision prohibiting prosecution of a TSA officer if the officer’s actions are “pursuant to and consistent with the U.S. Constitution.”

Read More: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/28/us-airport-security-texas-idUSTRE75R03N20110628

I guess Alex Jones and a lot of people protested yesterday at the Texas State Capital Building in Austin. I'll bet they yelled like hell!! The acoustics are amazing!! I noticed this image (the badge) on Alex Jone's website. I don't agree or disagree with it, but I thought it quite interesting. I agree with a lot of what Alex and his guests say, but I don't always like the way they say it. I can only expose myself to so much negativity. I also wonder how people like Alex would govern if they got their way with everything, and then had to keep the public happy and content. They are quite good at making people angry, but what if they became the elites and the powers that be? What would they do then? I tend to favor positive response ability and positive reinforcement. On the other hand, I think I need to be a lot more like Alex than I am presently, so I listen to his show occasionally, to try to toughen myself up!! Some say that Alex is a White-Knight with a Hidden Agenda. What do you think? Are the Old World Order and the New World Order two sides of the same coin, or did the New World Order defeat the Old World Order? Is the New World Order running into more trouble than they expected, after having awakened a Sleeping Giant? I'm thinking that the New World Order screwed things up so badly that now they are in desperation mode, and are extremely dangerous, because they probably have control of enough WMD's to turn this solar system into one big asteroid belt. This might not be about ideology at all. This might be a gun to the head situation - if you know what I mean. Based upon what little I know, I continue to like the words Namaste Constitutional Responsible Freedom United States of the Solar System - but I remain conflicted regarding how the Roman Catholic Church would relate to this sort of thing, especially if they were no longer secretly governed by very powerful dark forces. The galactic and theological issues might have more to do with what Alex Jones rants and raves about than anyone realizes. The elites we love to hate might hate the New World Order more than Alex does! Just a thought.



Diaper-Gate?? The whole thing stinks!! Well, a diaper is sort of a water-gate, isn't it? What part of 'Probable Cause' do they not understand? Perhaps they think it's 'Probe-Able Cause'!?!?! Proctological Cause???!!!

"Bend-Over Buddy!!!"

"Whaddda Ya Gonna Do??? Ya Pervert!!!!"