{"id":32546,"date":"2013-02-22T09:45:36","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T16:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/22\/well-i-for-one-feel-so-much-safer.html"},"modified":"2013-02-22T15:45:49","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T22:45:49","slug":"well-i-for-one-feel-so-much-safer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/22\/well-i-for-one-feel-so-much-safer.html","title":{"rendered":"Well, I for one, feel SO\u00a0much safer"},"content":{"rendered":"
Because, as they say, you can't have a secure homeland\u00a0without making a few 3-year old girls with spina bifida<\/i> cry.<\/p>\n

Now, yes, I know, if I were a Fiendish Drug-Smuggling Mastermind, or an Evil Genius Terrorist Overlord, I'd be the first to try and smuggle drugs, explosives, or dirty magazines in a crippled girl's wheelchair. \u00a0And, yes, I know, if this were the first time I were traveling with someone in a wheelchair like this, I'd probably have spent some time looking over the rules and regs (those publicly available, not redacted SOOPER-SEKRIT and\/or arbitrarily made up in the agent's head) before going to the airport.<\/p>\n

But c'mon — this is not 2001. This is a going on a dozen years after 9\/11, and the TSA doesn't have it clear and obvious and straightforward in every single one of their agents' heads (not to mention posted for the public) what to do in what's hardly a bizarre or never-before-encountered circumstance? \u00a0And they bungle it enough to make a little girl cry and force a mom to start videoing the incident (and then have the gall to make up a rule that it's "illegal" to tape them)?<\/p>\n

The terrorists have in fact won, because we're living in constant terror.<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +Les Jenkins<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

I so hate what our airline "security" has become these days.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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TSA Policies Are So Confusing It\u2019s No Wonder A 3-Year-Old In A Wheelchair Gets Upset During Screening<\/a>
\n (YouTube)
\nThe Transportation Security Administration is doing some quick apologizing after an incident that left a 3-year-old girl upset and crying when her parents were told she\u2019d need to submit to a pat-down. The toddler has spina bifida and had reportedly already gone through security at Lambert- St. Louis International Airport, when her mom captured what appears to be TSA agents attempting to touch the tearful girl.
\nThe mom posted the video o…\n <\/p>\n

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Because, as they say, you can't have a secure homeland\u00a0without making a few 3-year old girls with spina bifida cry. Now, yes, I know, if I were a Fiendish Drug-Smuggling Mastermind, or an Evil Genius Terrorist Overlord, I'd be the first to try and smuggle drugs, explosives, or dirty magazines in a crippled girl's wheelchair. … Continue reading “Well, I for one, feel SO\u00a0much safer”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":131887,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/29\/yes-this-looks-wheelchair-friendly.html","url_meta":{"origin":32546,"position":0},"title":"Yes, this looks wheelchair-friendly","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 29-Oct-16 10:07am","format":false,"excerpt":"I always like those striped-off paths between the center of parking aisles that are set aside for the handicapped so that their walkers and wheelchairs don't have to go off into the madness of the parking aisles. 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