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Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on November 16, 2010

A lot to report on the new controversial TSA security procedures at airports. The original video of this first frightening event has been yanked several times from YouTube (of course), but here is some background information on the 3-year-old girl who was hysterical last week when a TSA airport security employee tried to perform a pat-down on her — video below is from EyeBlast.tv. The father of little Brandi is Steve Simon, who happens to be an award-winning news reporter in Texas.

Parents, pay close attention to the tips offered in the video if you’re going to be traveling via airplane with a young child during the busiest travel period of the year. Save yourself and your poor child from undue anguish this Thanksgiving.

Airport Security: TSA Pats Down Crying 3-Year-Old Girl

From The Powers That Be, If the TSA Can’t Grope Kids the Terrorists Win:

I for one would have felt a lot safer on the plane after witnessing that patdown — the kid looked a little shifty.

Things like that accomplish nothing with the possible exception of encouraging pedophiles to apply for TSA jobs.

The actual threats to our national security must be getting a real kick out of what they’ve managed to cause.

John Tyner, the “don’t touch my junk” guy who refused to be patted down by a TSA minion last week, has become a folk hero across the world.

“Don’t Touch My Junk” Man to TSA agent

FOX News: Don’t Touch My Junk, Bro! — Interview with John Tyner

From Chuck DeVore, Big Government, TSA Needs to “Get a Grip”… of a Different Sort:

John “Don’t touch my junk” Tyner is an American hero. Airport security ejected him from the San Diego airport after he refused the choice between a naked body scan and a crotch grab – and he recorded the whole affair on his cell phone. John Tyner’s confrontation calls into question the entire Transportation Security Agency (TSA) apparatus.

The TSA believes that it must view your naked body with a scanner or place a hand on your private parts to safeguard the flying public from terrorists. I have advice for the TSA: you can spend a trillion dollars to make air travel safe and it won’t work. Islamists will simply board an aircraft originating in a nation with weaker security or go after a school or a bus or a subway. By incurring unending costs and eroding our freedoms, the terrorists win and we lose just a bit each day.

We can’t defend everything – and certainly not using processes drawn from the bureaucratic-industrial complex. Consider this: no TSA employee has ever caught or stopped a terrorist but alert passengers and intelligence has. This says volumes about the nature of the threat and our ham-handed response to it.

Rather than invest in costly, privacy-invading machines run by legions of sleepy federal employees, we should look to the Israeli airport security model for ideas. To do so we need to train our TSA force more, pay them more, employ fewer of them and empower them to use their brains to look at each passenger, ask them questions and yes, profile.

With security, the best defense is a good offense. It’s time to rethink our long-running battle with militant Islamism (which has its origins with our fight with the Barbary Pirates from 1801 to 1815). Instead of spending unending sums of money and throwing away our liberty in a vain quest to make us safe from every form of terror, why don’t we simply increase the cost for Muslim nations to host terrorists?

Thomas Jefferson’s response to the Barbary Pirates is instructive. After Islamist forces seized U.S. shipping and held American crews hostage, Jefferson approved a punitive expedition to North Africa. This action saw the U.S. Navy blockading the ports used by the pirate-terrorists while eight U.S. Marines lead a force of 500 Mediterranean mercenaries in a prototypical special forces operation whose object was regime change. The operation was successful and the Marines got the opening line to their hymn: “…to the shores of Tripoli.”

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UPDATE: TSA is plenty ticked off at John Tyner, and is going to go all Commando Orwellian on him. AND they intend to REALLY punish him with increased fines (vee have vayz to make you obey) — the full scoop is at Big Government: TSA to Investigate American Citizen Who Refused Body Scan.

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DHS czarina JaNo’s response in the next video to a reporter’s question about Muslim women and TSA pat downs is a bit fuzzy, but it APPEARS that she’s saying that Muslim women in hijabs will be patted down by TSA employees before boarding planes.

Maybe. Perhaps. Not quite sure from Napolitano’s “more to come” response.

One thing we can all be sure about is that CAIR will amp up the Islamic outrage over this.

CNS News: DHS Head Janet Napolitano: ‘More to Come’ on Body Pat Downs for Muslim Women Wearing Hijabs

Additional reading:
The Lonely Conservative: TSA Gone Wild – Pats Down Screaming 3 Year Old
Gateway Pundit: Former Top TSA Official: “Nobody Likes Having Their 4th Amendment Rights Violated… We’re Going to Have to Do It” (Video) and Awful… 3 Year-Old Girl Accosted By TSA Airport Screeners (Video)
Another Black Conservative: From groping to probing, TSA to investigate John Tyner (The Don’t Touch My Junk dude)
Frugal Café Blog Zone: Thanksgiving Crisis: Backlash Growing Against TSA’s Invasive Pat-Downs & Body Scanners at Airports, “Opt-Out Day” Looming, Muslim Women Exempt? (video) and DHS on the Hot Seat: Invasive Groping at Airports by TSA Employees Escalating, Pilots Revolt Against Being Scanned Because of Radiation (video)
Right Network: Citizen to TSAndroid: “If you touch my junk I’ll have you arrested.”
DBKP – Death By 1000 Papercuts: Angry Over Airport Full Body Scans? On the Horizon, Red Flag Tests
Pundit & Pundette: Airline searches, as ineffective as they are invasive
Michelle Malkin: TSA: Touching sensitive areas:
AFP: ‘Naked’ scanners at US airports may be dangerous: scientists
The Jawa Report, CAIR Pushes To Exempt Muslims From Airport Body Scans AND Pat Downs:
CNN, Growing backlash against TSA body scanners, pat-downs:
Washington Post: Revolt against TSA: Ban the body scanner?
Death and Taxes: Revolt Against TSA: Airline Industry Spawns New Folk Hero
Sign On San Diego: Commercial airline pilot refuses full body scan
CNS News: Muslim Group Advises Women Wearing Hijabs to Allow TSA ‘Enhanced Pat Downs’ Only on Head and Neck Area

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