TSA to Review Airport Screening Policies After 6-Year-Old Girl Frisked

[Jazzy]

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. -- A Kentucky couple wants the TSA to change how it screens children after their 6-year-old daughter was frisked at the New Orleans airport.



Selena Drexel told ABC's Good Morning America Wednesday the family was returning home from a vacation earlier this month when their daughter Anna was selected for a pat-down.



The couple posted a video of the search on YouTube.



The girl's father, Todd Drexel, says Anna was confused by the search and started crying afterward because she thought she'd done something wrong.



Selena Drexel says such searches are inappropriate for children because they're usually told not to let adults touch them in sensitive areas.



In a statement, the Transportation Security Administration says the officer followed proper procedure but that the agency is reviewing its screening policies.



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[Evil Eye]

Oh look, it must be a little terrorist!

 

[DrLeftover]

Go Read This.



http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jul/02/taliban-buying-children-to-serve-as-suicide-bomber/

 

[Jazzy]

If you think about, where's there a better place to hide weapons and/or drugs than on a baby or child? The odds of a baby or child getting a selected pat down are very slim. That's why most adults don't hide such items on themselves when travelling with small children. Two months ago at the International airport in my area, a TSA officer found a small hand gun taped to its back and bag of cocaine in the infants diaper. The only reason the officer checked the baby was because the parents were acting very nervous and refused a pat down. At that point, the whole family (baby included) were subjected to a more intense body search. Parents were arrested and the baby was given over to a relative while the parents await trial. People travelling with children should educate them as to what might happen and this way the children will have a better understanding of what a pat down is. As stated in the article, the TSA officer followed proper procedure. It's a tough job they have and since they are responsible for public safety, they need to do what they deem necessary to keep us all safe.

 

[DrLeftover]

Some people refuse to believe that there is true evil in this world.



However, that being said.



There has to be a middle ground somewhere that won't traumatize innocents and yet prevent them from being incinerated in mid-air by those who see nothing wrong with using other children to kill them.

 

[DrLeftover]

OK, I've got a question.



What do you think would happen once word got out that the Americans are NOT checking small children at the airports.



Who would jump on that first, drug smugglers or Al Qaeda?

 

[Evil Eye]

Drug smugglers. Most likely.

 

[DrLeftover]

But think about it.



The smugglers won't want their shipments getting blown up so they'll have to coordinate their runs with the terrorists so they don't lose their merchandise.

 

[Evil Eye]

Would the terrorists agree to that?

They might fight some sort of a turf war.

 

[DrLeftover]

The competition would raise the selling price of children in third world countries. So you could say that by having the TSA not screening children under, say, 10 years of age, the US is helping the poor people overseas.



And before somebody starts calling me names, go back up the thread and read the story about the Taliban buying children for just that reason.

 

[Evil Eye]

So I was wondering... do you think they get more people killed than there are people born thereabouts?

 

[DrLeftover]

No.



If you look at the world population trend by decade, the only time the world wide population actually declined for any significant period was during the Black Plague.



Even World War II was just a minor dip in the overall increase.