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Security - Frisking - Meet Mikey of New Jersey!

post #1 of 4
1/14/10 at 2:33pm
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Imagine being an 8-yr-old kid but for the last 6 years you're mistaken as a terorist and being frisked every time you go to the airport (yup, do the math, frisks starting at the tender age of TWO)

http://bit.ly/7zUb3L

This article does not mention if it happens elsewhere or only in America. Hmm, let me guess.

Also, please read the opener (about the TSA blog) carefully. Why doesn't the TSA correct its own blog?

Bonus: The link above contains a pic
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post #2 of 4
1/14/10 at 2:45pm
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Quote:
“Up your arms, down your arms, up your crotch — someone is patting your 8-year-old down like he’s a criminal,” Mrs. Hicks recounted. “A terrorist can blow his underwear up and they don’t catch him. But my 8-year-old can’t walk through security without being frisked.”
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Mrs. Hicks said the family was amused by the mistake at first. But that amusement quickly turned to annoyance and anger. It should not take seven years to correct the problem, Mrs. Hicks said.
The TSA blog should not call it a "myth." (Mommy said it's not a myth. TSA says yes because they're splitting hairs) That blog should say Myth or Reality? An 8-year-old is on the TSA Selectee List. Reality.
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post #3 of 4
1/14/10 at 3:10pm
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from sphere.com
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an airline official told his mother that her son's name was on "the list," which Hicks soon found out is the TSA's "selectee" terror watch list of 13,500 suspicious names,
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A TSA spokesman would not address Mikey's case specifically but said "there are no children on the no-fly or selectee lists."
Source:
http://www.sphere.com/nation/article...-list/19316954
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post #4 of 4
1/15/10 at 5:27am
We were discussing this article in my criminal justice class. Its sad this 8 year old has to go through an extensive search every time he goes to the airport.
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