Originally Posted by
Saitek
she could have denied the TSA from groping her daughter for starters. Just because the courts have turned a blind eye to the blatent abuses of power doesnt mean we as americans should do so as well.
Instead of walking away, maybe you should have said something like 'The United State Constitution says that these sorts of searches are illegal. And until a court rules otherwise they are indeed illegal.'
"That's fine Ma'am, feel free to leave the airport. I take it you don't want to fly today."
Then she has a very upset kid not going to visit Mickey, or Grammy or whatever. Either that or she is stuck 2000+ miles from home with said kid and mommy will lose her job if they take the 3 days to drive home.
Until the law changes there is no good answer here. TSA fake-officers should not have the ability to lay their hands on anyone at all, and it should be absolutely verboten if that person is under 18. But that's not the current rule. "Do you want to fly today?" works very well for the TSA. Why change now?
Until some family with unimpeachable morals and unlimited resources challenges this crap we are all stuck worrying about our little ones.