A blog entry is not the reporting of a crime. It's a blog entry. A report of a crime is more substantive. It involves face-to-face contact. One has to swear that their complaint is true and correct and acknowledge that there are penalties for lying. That sort of thing.

Anyone can write anything on a blog.

Hence my previous comment. And I should add, anytime we agree on something it almost has to be correct. :)

If it's done right it is, my friend.

A real patdown will involve hand-to-genitalia contact. Weapons are hidden everywhere, not just approved places. :)

If I walked up to someone on the street and started feeling all parts of their body, that's assault if it's not done with their permission. If it's a child, then we go that direction. What allows a TSO or LEO or whatever to get away with it is need in performance of their duties.

:D

I hadn't gotten to it as I was taking them in order. But now I have and -

Oh. My. God. :eek:

What more can be said. ;)

Oh but they will! They're all SME's in this area. :rolleyes: (wondering how many pages this will roll on to)

Anytime you get onto a moderated message board, blog, etc., you're subject to the rules of the powers that be and while not 'reasonable', it's their playground so if you don't like the rules, even the unwritten ones, don't play.

I don't agree with the 'open' premise of the TSAs blog, but I will agree with their right to filter what they want from the content, albeit to make themselves look better.

Write your congressman/senator or even meet with them. Seriously doubt they'll do anything but if the only action one takes is venting here, you're not getting anywhere.

A comment on Duane's post re his daughter's patdown has finally been published, with the advice that he contact the police.

Having basically given up flying because of the TSA and therefore not getting to see for myself what goes on at checkpoints as much as I used to, I'm getting the idea that pat downs are becoming more "thorough", i.e., rather than just patting down the legs from mid-thigh down, it sounds as if the TSA might be leaning towards a more LE-like procedure; women's breasts might actually be getting squeezed; the palms of the hands being used rather than the back of the hand. I thought that you only got patted down if the HHMD beeped - but it's sounding to me as if everyone needing a secondary is getting a pat down. What other reason could there possibly be for touching a child in such a manner?

(I agree with doober who suggested that parents teach their kids to scream if they are touched by a screener. Get the attention of everybody in line as to what is happening to our children in airports.)

The TSA website says that a person who accompanies someone with "hidden disabilities" can be with that person during the secondary search:

It certainly seems to me that this should be SOP when it is required to pat down a minor child.