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CW News reporter broadcasts video of TSA frisking his 3-year-old
By Brian FairbanksNovember 16th, 2010, 3:23 pmComments (8)
The airport security crisis reached staggering new heights last night when a YouTube video of a terrified three-year-old girl getting frisked by the TSA went viral. The clip was quickly removed (commenters claim conspiracy) but then something even crazier happened: a CW news reporter named Steve Simon went on the air with the clip at KIAH-TV in Houston, Texas and said that the girl is his daughter... and that he could only stand by in horror and watch his daughter scream herself hoarse.
(Yes, he could have intervened, but what would the alternative have been? Putting her through the radiation machine? Canceling at least three plane tickets and leaving the airport?)
Here's the clip from the broadcast, during which Simon is noticeably calm and in total "cheery TV news guy" mode, but that may be because he knows his daughter actually got off easy. As I mentioned the other day, there is a strong movement building against the TSA and its get-groped-or-get-cancer Catch-22 policy. The people behind that movement have reported far worse (sexual) assault attempts than this one.
Commentarium (8 Comments)
Someone is going to be in deep sh*t over this, they're not supposed to frisky anyone younger than twelve (which I still think is too young and way inappropriate!)
I meant "frisk"
@carlyQ: I think you got it right the first time around.
Ah, the glamorous jet set lifestyle! They herd you through a series of cattle chutes, take your shoes, take your teddy bear from you, shove you through a menacing-looking portal that shrieks at you, then grope you.
So much for the romance of flying. Now it's more like a screening of "Scared Straight". This is why I don't fly anymore.
I am simply horrified.
This story is almost 2 years old. No action was taken against the employee in the frisking.
To be fair.. terrorists will take ANY means necessary to cause terror. Now, does this completely absolve the policies underway? No... but.. whatever happened to bomb dogs? I used to see them all the time, intermingling with the crowd. I think that people would be more likely to put up with the allergies associated with them and NOT be villified rather than be xrayed and groped
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