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TSA Abducted Child From Mother For Secret Pat Down...
If anyone else abducted someone’s child and then sexually molested them they would be rightly called a pedophile and locked up for a long time, but when the government does it not only is it deemed acceptable, but it also trains a whole generation of children that being kidnapped by an adult and having their genitals groped is normal.
The TSA’s refusal to spare young children from invasive and degrading pat downs that have outraged Americans is fundamentally impacting parents’ efforts to protect their kids from sexual predators.
The shocking video last week of a 3-year-old girl screaming “don’t touch me” as a TSA agent aggressively pats her down was matched by equally disturbing footage which emerged yesterday of a young boy being frisked by TSA workers while half-naked.
These images not only remind us of the fact that, as the Drudge Report highlighted last week, the terrorists have won, but they also threaten to legitimize the sexual molestation of children, so long as it’s performed by someone in uniform.
Indeed, the TSA not only targets children for pat down procedures that amount to little less than perverted fondling, they also do so after removing the child completely from its parents in some cases.
In a chilling story that took place last year but was re-posted on the CNN iReport website today, a mother described how a male TSA agent abducted her son in order to carry out a secret pat down on him while she was forced to stay behind as she became hysterical and began to hyperventilate.
The incident took place at Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson airport after a woman was told to wait in a holding area for setting off a metal detector because she was holding her young son who had a pacifier clip hanging from his t-shirt.
I told the TSA agent, who asked me to back up and walk through again, “It’s my son’s pacifier clip, can I put it on the conveyor belt?” the woman writes. “Ma’am turn around and come back please,” I was told.
Although there were four TSA agents standing around doing nothing, the woman was forced to wait and quickly became worried that she would miss her flight, which was scheduled to leave in 45 minutes. She was unable to even collect her own belongings as TSA workers ignored her pleas, one stating, “Ma’am you need to wait. I don’t care about your departure time.”
When the woman and her small child were finally allowed to leave the plastic box they had been confined to, TSA agents still refused to allow the woman to even sit near her belongings.
“Ma’am, can someone please just search me so we can be on our way? We are going to miss our flight,” I said.
The female agent then called an older gentleman, also a TSA agent over. The male TSA agent stood in front of me and said “I’m going to have to pat down your son.”
With Jackson still sitting in my lap (he was being so good despite all of this chaos) I said ok and continued to hold on to my son, expecting the male TSA agent to start touching Jackson.
He then told me, “I’m going to have to pick him up to inspect him.”
I rolled my eyes and sternly told him “It’s his pacifier clip that went off, can’t you just run that back through the belt and let us go. We are going to miss our flight.”
The female TSA agent, who had been standing there the entire time said to me, “You need to adjust your attitude and do as you are told.”
The male TSA agent repeated, “I’m going to have to pick him up to inspect him.”
Despite the fact that the TSA’s website states, “We will not ask you to do anything that will separate you from your child or children,” the man then took the boy and walked off with him, leaving the mother in tears as the child screamed for her.
When the woman loudly protested at the fact that her son had been abducted, she was told by one of the female TSA workers, “Ma’am you need to calm down or I’m going to have to involve the authorities.” The TSA screener then forced her to unbutton her jeans during a personal search.
The mother became hysterical, nearly blacking out as she suffered an anxiety attack, before the TSA worker finally brought back her son as he started yelling, “Mommy!”
Yelling obscenities at every single TSA agent in sight as she sobbed uncontrollably, the woman made it onto her plane with just minutes to spare and had no time to file a formal complaint.
Given the fact that TSA agents are already abusing even their own guidelines by physically putting their hands down people’s pants and directly touching their genitals, expect more parents to experience similar horrors as those described here in the run up to Thanksgiving.
TSA workers have continually proven that they are an unprofessional, poorly trained, abusive and savage federal goon squad who are completely incapable of providing proper security, excelling instead at harassing innocent travelers and treating Americans worse than farmyard animals.
Not only do the policies that have earned the TSA the reputation of perhaps the most loathed federal entity in America need to be thrown out, but the agency itself needs to be abolished altogether, otherwise we’re going to see a whole generation of children being trained that it’s OK for the nice man in the uniform to touch their private parts.TSA Abducted Child From Mother For Secret Pat Down...
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The Bush administration prosecuted, after 9-11, 828 people on terrorism charges in civilian courts. At the time of publication of this excellent report from the Center on Law and Security, NYU School of Law last year, trials were still pending against 235 of those folks. That leaves 593 resolved indictments, of which 523 were convicted of some crime, for a conviction rate of 88%.
With regard to military tribunals, the Bush administration inaugurated 20 such cases. So far just three convictions have been won. The highest-profile is the conviction of Salim Hamdan, Osama bin Laden's driver. The Hamdan legal saga, rehearsed here, doesn't exactly suggest that military tribunals provide swifter and surer and tougher justice. In the end, he was convicted all right, but sentenced -- not by a bunch of New York City Democrats, but by a military jury! -- to five and half years.
Then, the tribunal judge, a US Navy captain, gave Hamdan credit for time served, which was five years. So he served six months after conviction. Today he's back in -- guess where? -- Yemen.
So here's the situation. Bush/Cheney found civilian prosecution a perfectly acceptable path to pursue in 828 cases. They've won convictions at an impressive rate in those civilian prosecutions. The most high-profile military prosecution was kind of a disaster.
And yet, Obama is a weakling because Abdulmutallab is being treated the way the Bush administration treated 828 "suspects," to use a word the right has declared reveals a girly-mannish mindset. Amazing. And again: where are the Democrats who are saying this?The Bush administration prosecuted, after 9-11, 828 people on terrorism charges in... more
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Its creation is seen as a way for the Obama administration to distance itself from coercive methods used during the Bush era. It will be housed at FBI headquarters and report to the White House.
Reporting from Washington - President Obama has approved the creation of a new multi-agency interrogation unit for suspected terrorists that will be based at the FBI but overseen by policy-makers at the White House and its National Security Council, senior administration officials said today.
The new unit, called the HIG, or High-value detainee Interrogation Group, was seen as one of the administration's most forceful efforts to date to distance itself from the Bush administration and the coercive interrogation methods used by the CIA with approval by political appointees at the Bush Justice Department.
The CIA still will play a role in the interrogation and transfer of future high-value terrorist suspects, including Al Qaeda leaders and their financiers and facilitators, according to the administration officials, who briefed reporters on the new plan but refused to discuss its details by name.
But the new unit, in addition to being housed at FBI headquarters in Washington, will be led by an as-yet-unnamed FBI official and comprise interrogators, analysts and linguists from numerous civilian and military agencies, the officials said. Its deputy director will come from a U.S. intelligence agency, and the unit overall will report to the White House.
In the Bush administration, the CIA had the lead -- and usually exclusive -- role in interrogations of suspected Al Qaeda operatives, with the U.S. military conducting the questioning of many militants caught in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Deputy White House Press Secretary Bill Burton also discussed the new unit, telling reporters covering the vacationing Obama on Martha's Vineyard, Mass., that it will include "all these different elements under one group."
Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. and the two senior administration officials said the recommendations were made after extensively consulting with military, intelligence and law enforcement agencies, including some of the nation's most experienced and skilled interrogators that they employ.Its creation is seen as a way for the Obama administration to distance itself from... more
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The Obama administration is considering forgoing legislation and issuing an executive order that would authorize the president to incarcerate some terrorism suspects indefinitely, White House officials said Friday.
Such an order would be controversial — seemingly aligning the administration with a disputed legal doctrine of former President George W. Bush, whose lawyers held that the president had sweeping authority in wartime to imprison those he deemed threats to national security.
Obama officials sought to play down the significance of the discussions by an administration panel, saying that consideration of such an order was still in an early phase and subject to change. They said that lawyers had not written a specific proposal and that nothing had been submitted to the White House for review by senior officials.
Still, the possibility of the order appeared to reflect increasing frustration within the administration over the difficulties posed by the effort to meet Mr. Obama’s commitment to close the detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, by January and the dwindling options for dealing with the detainees before then.
At the heart of the issue are more than 200 men being held at Guantánamo, in some cases for years. Initially, the administration had hoped that most could either be sent back to their home countries or tried in criminal courts in the United States. But emptying the prison has proved politically difficult.The Obama administration is considering forgoing legislation and issuing an executive... more
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President Obama is planning on Friday to resume the Bush administration's controversial military commission system for some Guantanamo detainees -- which he suspended in his first week in office -- according to three administration officials.President Obama is planning on Friday to resume the Bush administration's... more
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The Olympics are still years away, but the controversy is already coming thick and fast. Following the claims that the builders are not going to complete on time or to budget, a human rights group has now warned the CCTV surveillance system being developed for the 2012 games could not be legal.
The system, entitled 'The DYVINE system' would reportedly allow one central control room to remotely access any CCTV network in London, and then collate the information on a 3D map.
That means number-plate recognition and private CCTV networks would be accessible to authorities to follow any suspected troublemakers through London.
http://tinyurl.com/8na2zbThe Olympics are still years away, but the controversy is already coming thick and... more
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Five defendants accused of involvement in the 9/11 attacks on the US today asked a judge for a session to announce confessions.
The men, who include the alleged mastermind of the attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, were appearing at a pre-trial hearing at Guantánamo Bay.Five defendants accused of involvement in the 9/11 attacks on the US today asked a... more
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