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VMI77 wrote:

Rebel wrote:My Wife and I were shocked at what was going on, but unfortunately I was more sheep back then. When it happens it completely throws you for a loop, you don't know what to do. Your afraid to say anything because the next thing you know your whole family is being pulled aside and searched or even arrested, and your just on a family trip, so you comply.

This is good example of how these searches are coerced, and why the contention that they are done with consent is disingenuous.

This is 100% true. Our consent was given by silence, not by verbal agreement.

To this day it still really bothers me, on many levels, such as I allowed it to happen, and that it happens everyday still and people see it and say nothing. Just as on that day in front of 100s of people that just watched.

In 2006, my son was 4 at the time. We were flying from Phoenix to L.A., when he was " randomly" selected to be screened. They pulled him aside and searched through his toy backpack then did a complete pat down on him as they did on the young girl in the video. My Wife and I were shocked at what was going on, but unfortunately I was more sheep back then. When it happens it completely throws you for a loop, you don't know what to do. Your afraid to say anything because the next thing you know your whole family is being pulled aside and searched or even arrested, and your just on a family trip, so you comply. For that I have always been angry at myself for not saying anything.

The thing that always added more salt to the wound was that right behind us were 4 20ish Arabic men, speaking in Arabic, that walked right through. Now I know it's completely politically incorrect to think/say that, but if anyone should have been searched, I would have thought they should have more than a 4 year old American boy.

Ever since then I have Very little respect for the TSA or even think they are doing a job of any value, and videos like this only confirm my beliefs.