Letters to the Editor
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Whats Next for TSA-Romove all Metal on Your Body?
Mandi Hamlin, 37, said she was trying to board a flight from Lubbock to Dallas on Feb. 24 when she was scanned by a Transportation Security Administration agent after passing through a larger metal detector without problems.
The female TSA agent used a handheld detector that beeped when it passed in front of Hamlin's chest, the Dallas-area resident said.
Hamlin said she told the woman she was wearing nipple piercings. The women then called over her male colleagues, one of whom said she would have to remove the jewelry, Hamlin said.
She was not allowed to go into a private room but was forced to strip naked behind a curtian with male TSA personnel snickering and making jokes, then forced to use a pair of pliers to painfully remove a nipple piercing. This is ridiculous. Whats next naked flights? I have metal parts in my body from surgeries. Does that mean I cannot fly because they cannot be removed? Our rights are being trampled on in the interest of National Security. This is the administrations answer for the war on Terror. That ordinary people who are not a threat in America are brutalized,humiliated publically and terrorized in America by the TSA(Tránpỏtation Sàety Adminỉstation). Bin Laden hás not bêen caught. We are not evn looking that hard for him anymore. But American's are being terrorized by those Nazis tatics from Homeland Security and the TSA.
They operate more like Hitler's infamous SS than security personnel. Terrorism has become a catch -all virus that has made America Law enforcement mad. We are all now the suspects.At both in America and abroad. We should all protest and refuse to submit to TSA. Maybe if the airlines started losing money from people refusing these tatics things would change, most likely not. All those lazy people on the Welfare roles need a job. So they work for the TSA.
William Scanlon
Ho Chi Minh City
Vietnam