My cousin's experience
 

My cousin just returned from out east.
She had surgery and was flying home with her husband. She arrived to security in the wheelchair.
In spite of seeing her in the wheel chair, her husband explaining her situation, (she is terminally ill, malignant mesothelioma,) showing the surgeon's instructions as to the placement of the feeding tube and her incisions, but the security still needed to take her in a private area, and have her show them her feeding tube and incisions before letting her go through, this poor woman is so much in pain, yet I do understand the TSA having to check her, I do not blame them at all, it just angers me I suppose that I am losing someone I love so dearly, and who has always cared more about other's well being at the risk of her own, and would never complain, and its like yes, I am glad they are doing that to make sure we are secure, but it feels like she is the criminal, not the ones who cause the TSA to have to do this in the first place.
I am sorry for my rant, please forgive me,as I said, I know the TSA is just doing their job, just that I wouldn't wish this situation on anyone.

This should be moved to Travel Safety & Security. Sorry to hear about your cousin.

NOT to seem insensitive, but all emotions aside, what do you think they could/should have done differently?

Of course, sorry to hear about the situation.

Please continue to follow this thread in the TS/S Forum.
Thanks..
Obscure2k
Delta Moderator

Just why does TSA need to see her feeding tube and incisions? How about just swabbing the chair and then simply passing her through?

They could have kept their paws off the dying woman, and let her go home in peace.

Their is not terrorist threat from miserably ill ladies dying of mesothelioma. Physically torturing severely ill patients does nothing to make us safer. It degrades us as a nation and a culture.

The insane people in our government who torment citizens in order to sooth their own anxieties are not just unbalanced, but morally insane. Instead of spending billions in tax dollars to abuse taxpayers, a few hundred thousand should be spent medicating these severely anxious fruitcakes who see their fellow Americans as criminals and feel entitled to act out their illness by abusing others rather than simply seeking treatment for anxiety disorder.

"I do not blame them at all, it just angers me I suppose that I am losing someone I love so dearly, and who has always cared more about other's well being at the risk of her own, and would never complain, and its like yes, I am glad they are doing that to make sure we are secure, but it feels like she is the criminal, not the ones who cause the TSA to have to do this in the first place. I am sorry for my rant, please forgive me,as I said, I know the TSA is just doing their job, just that I wouldn't wish this situation on anyone."

I'm acutely sorry for your immanent loss, but I'm even sorrier for your sister-in-law and every other innocent civilian who is treated like a criminal by our out of control government thugs.

I'm sorry to be offensive, but maybe you ought to save your understanding for yourself and your fellow citizens, and direct a bit of ire at the out-of-control federal government that is trampling our 4th amendment rights with impunity. You sound as if you suffer from Stockholm Syndrome.

Has it come to that? Are American Citizens submitting to the TSA because they've been hostages for so long that they've lost sight of who they are and how a functional government interacts with citizens?

What will it take to restore our Constitution to its rightful place in the hearts of our citizens? Without that, we cannot hope to see our Constitution restored to its rightful place in our government.

Our President and others in our government talk about civil rights and human dignity, but it's always in Egypt or some other country. They need to look at what our government is doing to its own citizens. You should be very upset about was done to your sister. It violated basic human dignity and didn't make anyone on the aircraft any safer.

If the TSA really believes BDO's are effective, here is a perfect example of how they should be used.

Let the BDO clear them.

Sorry, I'll probably feel stupid after someone answers this, but what's a BDO? I looked on abbreviations.com and it's DEFINITELY not what I found on urbandictionary.com !!!!! ;)

Behavior Detection Officer. A TSO who supposedly has specialized training to detect potential tewowists by analyzing their "micro-expressions." This is a micro-expression you should flash at them when they ask you their stupid questions: :p

We need a FT dictionary if there isn't one already.

I think this is what you are looking for:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trave...-glossary.html

We've got the forum glossary:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trave...-glossary.html

May be a few terms missing but it covers the lion's share of shorthand you'll see here.

EDIT: Well frak me backwards and frell me dead, beaten to the punch.

I'm very sorry you've bought into the lie that they're "just doing their job."

I don't see "torturing the terminally ill" anywhere in their charter.

Is empathy grounds for termination?