It’s the lack of common sense and compassion that makes the TSA a nightmare. Plus, and in their defense, it is a sucky job that is designed to actually thwart a basic Constitutional right- to move about the nation freely without the hindrance of government. The TSA is like the bastard child called the ATF- the only government agency that directly targets a Constitutional amendment, and like the TSA, often in doing so runs afoul of the law and the citizens.
Here, once again, because of PC, we see the TSA manhandle a young woman, who was no threat. And in the foul act, hurt her both mentally and physically.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Bloodied and bruised Hannah Cohen was led from Memphis International Airport in handcuffs.
The 19-year old was headed home to Chattanooga after treatment for a brain tumor at St. Jude Hospital June 30, 2015.
It’s a trip they’ve made for 17 years.
This time, an unarmed Hannah, set off the metal detector at a security checkpoint
“They wanted to do further scanning, she was reluctant, she didn’t understand what they were about to do,” said her mother Shirley Cohen.
Cohen told us she tried to tell TSA agents her daughter is partially deaf, blind in one eye, paralyzed, and easily confused, but said she was kept at a distance by police.
“She’s trying to get away from them but in the next instant, one of them had her down on the ground and hit her head on the floor. There was blood everywhere,” said Cohen.
Hannah was arrested, booked and on the night she should have been celebrating the end of her treatment, she was locked up in Jail East.
“Here we were with nowhere to go, not even a toothbrush, our bags had gone to Chattanooga,” said Cohen.
Authorities later threw out the charges but the family filed a lawsuit against the Memphis Airport, Airport Police, and the Transportation Security Administration.
None of them would comment citing the suit, but Sari Koshetz of TSA released a statement that said, “Passengers can call ahead of time to learn more about the screening process for their particular needs or medical situation.”
Cohen said after all the help here, she can’t believe it ended like this.
“She’s 19 but she’ll always be my baby. We’ve been through so much.”
The TSA’s response to this was cold and lacking of any compassion. To make sure nothing like this happens again, they suggested citizens visit their website to learn how to handle being disabled and dealing with the TSA.
Oh goodie, a website, written by the same asshole bureaucrats that created the monstrosity that hurt that young girl in the first place. Why? That way you sheep can learn out to behave.
(On a side note, I’m sure she’s on a watch list, put there by the same unfeeling cold-hearted bureaucracy. Anyone like to bet?)
Digging into the “why” of this, there are many reasons why the TSA act the way they do.
I had a neighbor who had that job and hated it. It was understandable. Here are some reasons;
If you think what they have to do; groping, touching, fondling thousands people of all types and conditions who are already pissed off, you’d hate it to.
If you think about how every day your common sense is forcibly left at the door, you’d hate it to.
If you think how useless your job is, compared to the bigger fight against Islamic terrorism, you’d hate it to.
If you get a job, thinking you can use your intelligence and common sense to thwart terror attacks, and you are told to avoid offending the people who just killed three thousand of your fellow citizens by acting like those people aren’t threats. You come to work and find yourself employing a DUI checkpoint procedure by randomly choosing every fifth person instead of profiling the angry male Muslim with the RPG over his shoulder, who walks by you as you are patting down a seventy year old grandma from Wisconsin, you’d hate your job to.
If you watched your agency be controlled and designed by democrats to create another federal union of guaranteed democrat voters- not actually target terrorism, you’d hate your job to.
But having your department strip you of all your common sense doesn’t mean they can strip you of your humanity. When you see the girl, nobody can imagine she is a TERROR threat! Which is the sole reason for you being there, right? Take a LOOK at her! Compare her to the last dozen terror attacks, does she look like or act like a terrorist? Does she look like she’s confused and afraid? Does her mother, who is screaming at you that the girl is handicapped look like a terrorist? No? Then what the hell are you doing??!
This is a terrorist.
This is NOT a terrorist.
Nor this
nor this
Use your brain!
There is always going to be marginal people who get jobs like this and love the paycheck, security, the power and the lack of accountability. Those people are dangerous. Most are a minority and occasionally do seem to gravitate in numbers to certain jobs. And yes, manhandling hundreds if not thousands of grumpy travelers, already pissed off, is a terrible task. However, you can’t forget who you are and what you are doing there. Beating up a handicapped, brain tumor suffering, blind in one eye, deaf girl because she freaked is not your job. And frankly, people need to be punished for their acts, as the lawsuit indicates.
Don’t let the job ruin you. Be human first, not last.
