Pistole on NBC's Today Show Nov 15
#46
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Has anyone investigated him to find out if he's every escorted family members through airport security checkpoints to help them avoid the worst of the TSA or gotten some other LEO buddy to do it on his behalf?
It's a pretty sad day in America when a former FBI "leader" is encouraging interstate sexual molestation of minors -- and that is indeed what Pistole and the rest of the TSA is doing with this "stay the course" approach for 13 year old boys and girls.
The things the TSA does to minors in America would rightfully land a middle/junior high school coach into a correctional facility as a sex offender who violated minors.
It's a pretty sad day in America when a former FBI "leader" is encouraging interstate sexual molestation of minors -- and that is indeed what Pistole and the rest of the TSA is doing with this "stay the course" approach for 13 year old boys and girls.
The things the TSA does to minors in America would rightfully land a middle/junior high school coach into a correctional facility as a sex offender who violated minors.
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Personally i have 3 different cameras I will have on me and that 2 of the 3 will have capability to relay video and photo over wireless back to my car in the parking lot which then will upload them to my secure server. It would only take a single text message to a friend of mine to go in grab those videos and publish them to Youtube and have copies on newsroom editors desks very shortly.
I think that something that impacts as strongly on the family as allowing your children and wife to be viewed naked and groped by entry-level employees would excite some interest in the LDS community.
Also I'm curious if there are any unique TSA issues with temple garments. (make it harder to use naked scanner, need to be removed to clear a secondary alarm, etc.) I wouldn't necessarily think it would happen in SLC, but flying out of other airports...
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The Mormons I personally know do seem to have a lot of respect or deference for authority figures. But I also have to say that when they, as a group, decide to exert their political muscle, they are almost unstoppable - look at the issue of gay marriage in California...
We're definitely not a bunch of yes men and women.
I won't go any further lest we take this to OMNI/PR.
I think that something that impacts as strongly on the family as allowing your children and wife to be viewed naked and groped by entry-level employees would excite some interest in the LDS community.
One of my friends just had a major cow about what happened to her in SAN. I had one of those those "told ya so" moments with her when she went thru the NoS and was still groped because she was wearing a skirt (and knowing her and being a large woman, it wouldn't have been a tight skirt). I told her "Now if you're gonna get felt up anyway, why not just tell them to shove the scope?" I think she's gonna this time around.
Also I'm curious if there are any unique TSA issues with temple garments. (make it harder to use naked scanner, need to be removed to clear a secondary alarm, etc.) I wouldn't necessarily think it would happen in SLC, but flying out of other airports...
For me personally? I'd probably walk before it ever got to that point. If I didn't fly, so be it.