TSA Pats Down ANOTHER 90-something Wheelchair-bound Grandma! (Groped, Crotch, Breast & Everything)

[KoKo]

TSA Pats Down Another 90-something Wheelchair-bound Grandma
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posted at 10:03 am on July 19, 2011 by Howard Portnoy
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For the second time in a month, the TSA has singled out a woman in her nineties confined to a wheelchair for a pat-down. The victim, 94-year-old Marian Peterson, was on her way home to Florida following a visit with her daughter in North Carolina when she was pulled out of line for a random security check.

In the more recent incident, they were more invasive. Marian Peterson’s son, Joe, states, “They groped her. All of her body: her crotch, her breasts and everything else.”

They also made her get out of her wheelchair and stand with her arms outstretched for over 10 minutes. Looking back on her ordeal, Marian Peterson comments:

It is hard to know what is more galling about the TSA’s encore performance—their refusal to keep their hands off passengers who are obviously too old to be security threats or the fact that the top echelons of the agency appear to be operating on autopilot.

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UPDATE: WRAL NEWS RALEIGH NC (ABC AFFILIATE...HAS VIDEO AND MORE ABOUT THIS:

http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/local&id=8250625

94-year-old upset by TSA pat down

RALEIGH (WTVD) -- A 94-year-old wheelchair-bound Florida woman says a search she went through at Raleigh/Durham International Airport went too far.

Marian Peterson said it happened July 6 as she went through a TSA security checkpoint before boarding a flight home.

Peterson said she was selected for extra screening. First, security officers lifted her out of her wheelchair and helped her stand in a full body scanner. Then, she was given a physical pat down.

"They took me to one side and they patted me down, and they made me stand for, with my arms out, for over 10 minutes," she said. "I was beginning to feel that I wasn't going to be able to continue to stand, I was going to fall down or something."

"I asked, I said why are you doing this, and the woman was very polite and said 'I don't know, maybe the scanner detected something or maybe she moved,'" recalled Peterson's daughter Marian Malone.

Peterson's family said it's not just the length of the search they object to, it's the way it was done.

"She said it would be in-depth. She started the putdown, and at that point, she asked mom to spread her legs. She stood there with her legs spread and she checked every place thoroughly," said Malone.

VIDEO AND MORE AT SITE:

http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/local&id=8250625




http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2011/07/19/tsa-pats-down-another-90-something-wheelchair-bound-grandma/

[MADem]

1. One time is unusual, two times in such close proximity could very well

indicate an intelligence alert.

Come to think of it, I was travelling with a relative in a wheelchair (not that old) who was also singled out for additional screening, last May. He got the explosive detection all over the chair and the 'laying on of hands' as well. I didn't think much of it at the time, but maybe one of those idiot 'terra' websites threw using oldies and non-walkers as vehicles to get explosives on planes, and they're running with it.

BTW, what "is" that source, Hot Air? It smells rather bitterly, snarkily right wing to me. Lots of angry little snipes at our party....I really don't like giving fuckers like that the hits.

[KoKo]

3. WRAL ABC AFFILIATE has VIDEO and NEWS at this SITE:

94-year-old upset by TSA pat down

RALEIGH (WTVD) -- A 94-year-old wheelchair-bound Florida woman says a search she went through at Raleigh/Durham International Airport went too far.

Marian Peterson said it happened July 6 as she went through a TSA security checkpoint before boarding a flight home.

Peterson said she was selected for extra screening. First, security officers lifted her out of her wheelchair and helped her stand in a full body scanner. Then, she was given a physical pat down.

"They took me to one side and they patted me down, and they made me stand for, with my arms out, for over 10 minutes," she said. "I was beginning to feel that I wasn't going to be able to continue to stand, I was going to fall down or something."

"I asked, I said why are you doing this, and the woman was very polite and said 'I don't know, maybe the scanner detected something or maybe she moved,'" recalled Peterson's daughter Marian Malone.

Peterson's family said it's not just the length of the search they object to, it's the way it was done.
"She said it would be in-depth. She started the putdown, and at that point, she asked mom to spread her legs. She stood there with her legs spread and she checked every place thoroughly," said Malone.

http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/local&id=8250625

[MADem]

6. MUCH better source, thanks--and with more detail, too. NT

[StarsInHerHair]

14. interesting-SCANNED & A PAT-DOWN

[MADem]

18. That's what happened to my relative, as well.

He was wearing a plastic leg brace--don't know if that created any unusual shadows. The chair (one of those folding "transport" chairs) and cane got a close visual inspection and an explosive detection treatment.

[Agony]

2. link directly to news story...

http://www.firstcoastnews.com/topstories/article/210840/483/94-Year-Old-Woman-Says-TSA-Crossed-the-Line-with-Pat-Down

Most important thing for ALL of us to do is Internalize the fear, internalize the fear...

[KoKo]

4. Kick for Update and link to Video of interview with Mariane Petersen in OP

[LaurenG]

5. This makes me feel sick and I can't imagine having to work as a screener

I'm sure I'd be fired for insubordination. :(

[KoKo]

7. My Mother-in-Law in her 90's flew from RDU to FLA...and needed a wheelchair..

because she was very frail to walk through terminal. She passed away three years ago and the thought of her being put through something like this is heartbreaking.

We've lost the ability to care for the dignity of the old and the very young along with the rest of us by these Gestapo techniques we are being forced to accept. It's dehumanizing. And, in this case Marian Petersen had already had to go through the Scanner...and they still groped her.

I think it takes a certain kind of personality to be a TSA screener. :-(

[KoKo]

8. Why this post went off to archives...makes me sick....

:-(

[AverageJoe90]

9. TSA needs to be reformed. NOW!

[KoKo]

13. It seems that Obama Administration and Even many Good Dems here on DU don't want to hear about this.

and, TRULY...I cannot understand WHY? :shrug:

WHY..is this not important to anyone out there? :shrug: If "Chimperor-in-Chief" was doing this there would have been a HUGE OUTCRY!

What Happened?

[SammyWinstonJack]

19. (D) so it's all good for some.

:puke:

[piratefish08]

10. I have decided to submit willingly to these "safety caresses"

I bow to our new Overlords.

[fascisthunter]

11. It Makes great theater doesn't it?

[KoKo]

12. I hope more people who have elderly relatives they love...and care about will read..

so..I'm kicking my post.

[Ignis]

15. K&R.

:puke:

[Obamanaut]

16. This looks a lot like your other post on the same search

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1534512

[Ilsa]

17. I bet her husband might have been a WWII veteran. Yeah, a real threat.

This shit makes me ashamed of our country, always afraid, always ignoring people's rights.