War on Terrorism Update: TSA Makes 95-Year-Old Dying Cancer Victim Remove Adult Diaper (video)
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on June 27, 2011
The TSA’s invasive security searches at airports have extended beyond small children, handicapped people, women in wheelchairs wearing just bra and panties, and nuns — now it includes a tiny, dying 95-year-old cancer patient wearing an adult diaper.
Do you feel safer now from Islamic terrorists?
From Gateway Pundit, Obama’s TSA Agents Force 95 Year-Old Grandma With Leukemia to Remove Diaper at Airport:
The Obama Administration continues its assault on the American people.
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A 95 year-old woman with leukemia was forced by Obama TSA agents to remove her diaper at an airport in Florida last weekend.
CNN: TSA Forces 95 Year Old Woman to Remove Adult Diaper
Reported by NY Daily News, TSA defends decision to make 95-year-old cancer patient remove adult diaper for security screening:
The Transportation Security Administration doesn’t think its agents did anything wrong in asking an elderly woman with cancer to remove her adult diaper during an aiport security screening.
The agency came under fire after Florida woman Jean Weber claimed her 95-year-old mother was forced to take off her diaper for a pat down at the Destin-Fort Walton Beach Airport last weekend.
“It’s something I couldn’t imagine happening on American soil,” Weber told the Northwest Florida Daily News.
“While every person and item must be screened before entering the secure boarding area, TSA works with passengers to resolve security alarms in a respectful and sensitive manner,” the agency said in a statement Sunday. “We have reviewed the circumstances involving this screening and determined that our officers acted professionally and according to proper procedure.”
The problem began when Weber and her mother were going through security and a TSA officer told them he “felt something suspicious” on the elderly woman’s leg that needed to be checked in a private room.
During the private patdown, Weber says, the agent came out of the room to tell Weber that her mother’s adult diaper had been soiled and couldn’t be checked properly, and they needed her to change it to finish the search.
Weber says watching her mother, who is battling leukemia, be subjected to the security screening drove her to tears.
“My mother is very ill,” Weber told CNN.”She had a blood transfusion the week before, just to bolster up her strength for this travel.”
Weber, who says her mother is now doing “fine,” is dedicated to making sure no one suffers the same treatment.
From CBS News, TSA defends removing adult’s diaper for pat down:
(CBS News) The Transportation Security Administration defended on Sunday the actions of its airport security officers at a northwest Florida airport after the agency came under criticism for requiring a 95-year-old woman to remove her adult diaper during a pat down.
The incident took place June 18 at Northwest Florida Regional Airport near Pensacola, Fla., while Jean Weber of Destin, Fla., escorted her mother, who suffers from leukemia, to Michigan to live with family members before moving into an assisted living facility, CNN reports.
“She had a blood transfusion the week before, just to bolster up her strength for this travel,” Weber told CNN.
Weber didn’t identify her mother to the cable news network.
While going through the airport’s security checkpoint, a TSA officer performed a pat down on Weber’s mother, Weber told CNN. After an officer felt something “suspicious” on her leg, Weber’s mother was taken into a private room for further inspection. The officer then told Weber that her mother’s Depend undergarment was soiled and prevented a complete pat down from being done. The officer asked for it to be removed, which Weber did in a restroom.
“It’s something I couldn’t imagine happening on American soil,” Weber told the Panama City News-Herald Friday. “Here is my mother, 95 years old, 105 pounds, barely able to stand, and then this.”
From Pundit & Pundette, Wheelchair-bound nonagenarian gets the full TSA treatment:
…Koshetz said the procedures are the same for everyone to ensure national security.
“TSA cannot exempt any group from screening because we know from intelligence that there are terrorists out there that would then exploit that vulnerability,” she said.
“Terrorists”? Are they allowed to use that word? Only when they’re dealing with grannies and toddlers. Guys whose names appear on terrorist watch lists breeze through security with explosives in their underwear; no 45 minute invasive searches for them. That kind of treatment would be discriminatory, and is reserved for nonagenarians with advanced leukemia.
Sen. Rand Paul calls the TSA “clueless.” He must have been in a generous mood.
While dying grandmothers’ diapers are forced to be removed by TSA, not all dangerous situations are investigated or diffused.
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