Get your sorry asses here right now and explain why you're oh so glad
that we have the TSA.

You sick bastards that can't get enough TSA screw'in.

Where's our resident retired US-Air TSA-appologist pilot - DV 8?

Why doesn't he chime in and give his 2 cents.  Note that our professor
has turned tail and doesn't show up here to defend his precious TSA
(Transportation Screwing Agency).

And just wait.  The TSA is already on your highways, your bus, train and
subway stations.

Once upon a time, the only place you were asked for your papers when
travelling inside your own country was by the KGB in the Soviet Union.
It's only a matter of time you'll be showing your papers to the TSA when
you cross state lines by car, train, or on foot.

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Dying Michigan woman says TSA pat-down a little rude as she makes last
trip to Hawaii

SUMMARY

 * Cancer patient says a female TSA agent felt her tubes during a
   pat-down
 * Patient says another agent punctured a saline bag she was
   carrying
 * TSA says woman was never asked to remove bandages and agents
   never opened medical liquids

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http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/10/10/dying-michigan-woman-says-tsa-pa...

October 10, 2012

SEATTLE  A Michigan woman dying of leukemia says she hopes her
embarrassment during a Seattle airport security pat-down might change
the way the Transportation Security Administration treats travelers with
medical conditions.

'I didn't want to start getting upset and swearing and causing more of a
scene or issue'

A TSA spokeswoman said late Tuesday, however, that the agency had
reviewed video from the security checkpoint where Michelle Dunaj was
screened for weapons and determined that the agency's procedures were
followed.

Dunaj, 34, was making what she expects will be the last trip of her life
on Oct. 2 as she traveled through Seattle en route to Hawaii.

The Roseville, Mich., woman thought she had prepared by calling the
airline ahead of time, asking for a wheelchair, carrying documentation
for her feeding tubes and making sure she had prescriptions for all her
medications, including five bags of saline solution. But Dunaj said she
received a full pat-down in the security line at Seattle-Tacoma Airport
and had to lift her shirt and pull back bandages so agents could get a
good look. She said everyone else in line got a look, too.

"My issue is: It was in front of everyone, and everyone was looking at
me like I was a criminal or like I was doing something wrong," Dunaj
told The Associated Press on Tuesday. "It shouldn't have been in front
of everyone."

Dunaj said a female agent performed the pat-down and asked her to lift
up her shirt after feeling the tubes going into Dunaj's chest and
abdomen. Dunaj said her suggestion for a more private pat-down was
dismissed.

"I asked them if they thought that was an appropriate location, and they
told me that everything was fine," she said.

She said another agent punctured one of the saline bags she was
carrying, ruining it.

"I didn't want to start getting upset and swearing and causing more of a
scene or issue," Dunaj said. "But it definitely wasn't handled
properly."

TSA said in a statement, "At no point did a TSA officer open the
passenger's medically necessary liquids and the passenger was never
asked to remove or pull off any bandages."

The agency also said "at any point, any passenger can request private
screening with a witness present."

Asked to comment on Dunaj's statement that she had asked for a more
private pat-down, TSA Northwest Region spokeswoman Lorie Dankers said,
"I cannot address that" and added that the "statement stands on its
own."

"We have determined that our screening procedures were followed," she
said late Tuesday.

Dunaj said that after her pat-down, she was asked to move along, as if
she were responsible for holding up the line.

"I thought that was a little rude," she said.

The TSA statement said "the passenger has not contacted TSA about her
screening experience."

"We work to make our screening procedures as minimally invasive as
possible while providing the level of security that the American people
want and deserve," Dankers said in the statement.

Travelers with disabilities can call a TSA hotline with questions about
screening procedures.

Dunaj did not immediately return a call Tuesday evening seeking comment
on the TSA's response.

She initially told her story on KOMO-TV.

She had no problems flying out of Detroit or returning to Seattle from
Hawaii. She has been staying with a friend at suburban Bonney Lake in
western Washington and planned to return to Michigan on Wednesday. She
wasn't looking forward to departing from Sea-Tac, although the TSA
contacted her through KOMO and offered to have a manager help her
through security.

Her friend Mary Rowe said Tuesday evening the experience has "been
exhausting for her."

"On the last trip of her life, she's been totally bombarded with
everything," Rowe said.

Dunaj decided to make the trip after she was told she had three to four
months to live. She doesn't regret it, despite the hassles.

"Hawaii was one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen," she said.
"Number One on my bucket list."

She'll enter hospice back home Oct. 17.