Children are getting strip searched at the airport

[Timothy W.]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSQTz1bccL4

Liberals and Democrats, your people have been in charge of every branch but the Judiciary for 2 years now. This was not going on during Bush. If I were you I would be making calls to my representatives because this is what people are going to remember your party bringing to this country.

They won't remember speeches, subsidies or how smart your leaders say they are. They'll remember that your party means their children will get strip searched and touched all over by complete strangers at the airport.

[J Scott]

Originally posted by Tim Wieneke:

This was not going on during Bush.

Wow, where have you been living for the past 9 years?

Perhaps you've heard some rumblings from the tens of millions of Americans complaining since 9/11/01 that our freedoms have been dwindling at the hands of a government that is trying to convince us that it's important for American citizens to give up some of their freedom in return for "security" (a sense of security to some, perhaps, but certainly no real security).

Unfortunately, too many people have been so scared of "the terrorists" for 9 years now that they've been happy to give up their rights -- or worse yet, haven't even realized they been doing it, as clearly you haven't realized it until now.

Who do you think was responsible for the action in the article you linked? It was a TSA agent. And it's been going on since the TSA took over airport security.

When do you think the TSA was appointed to take over airport security?

November 2001, I believe it was.

Just a coincidence that it was 2 months after 9/11? I don't think so. You can blame the government in power in 2001 for putting in place this ludicrous security mechanism that has done nothing to make us more secure.

Btw, prior to 9/11, it was very uncommon for any airport security agent to pat down a traveler. In fact, to do so before 9/11 without verbal permission from the traveler was considered assault and a security officer could have gotten arrested for it.

After 9/11, TSA agents were exempt from this assault law. Yup, in 2001, the government decided that government appointed security forces were allowed to assault citizens in the name of "security."

It's happened to kids, to old people, to people in wheelchairs, people of all races, ethnicities, religions, etc. And it's sickening.

What's more sickening is that our government back in 2001 starting raping our citizens of their rights and our current government is still not doing anything about it.

That said, I'm glad you've finally woken up to the reality of the fact that our rights as citizens have been under attack for 9 years now...