November 22, 2010, - 1:27 pm
Terrorists Won: TSA Broke Man’s Urostomy Bag, Piss All Over
Sorry to use the word, “piss,” in a headline or even a post on this site. But this case demands it because the piss is not just all over the subject of the post, but all over all Americans. Yes, the terrorists won on 9/11 and every time they try something thereafter. Their underwear and package bombs may have failed in exploding cargo planes, but they succeeded on a much larger scale, in the wholesale molestation and embarrassment of Americans whose only crime is buying an airline ticket and showing up on time to the terminal. And in the case of Thomas Sawyer, a cancer survivor, the terrorists got a huge bounty: the utter embarrassment of a decent man who’s already gone through enough, but had to endure more at the hands of way-too-aggressive TSA screeners.
Sit Back & Enjoy Big Brother Feeling You Up
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A retired special education teacher on his way to a wedding in Orlando, Fla., said he was left humiliated, crying and covered with his own urine after an enhanced pat-down by TSA officers recently at Detroit Metropolitan Airport.
“I was absolutely humiliated, I couldn’t even speak,” said Thomas D. “Tom” Sawyer, 61, of Lansing, Mich.
Sawyer is a bladder cancer survivor who now wears a urostomy bag, which collects his urine from a stoma, or opening in his abdomen. “I have to wear special clothes and in order to mount the bag I have to seal a wafer to my stomach and then attach the bag. If the seal is broken, urine can leak all over my body and clothes.”
On Nov. 7, Sawyer said he went through the security scanner at Detroit Metropolitan Airport. “Evidently the scanner picked up on my urostomy bag, because I was chosen for a pat-down procedure.”
Due to his medical condition, Sawyer asked to be screened in private. “One officer looked at another, rolled his eyes and said that they really didn’t have any place to take me,” said Sawyer. “After I said again that I’d like privacy, they took me to an office.”
Sawyer wears pants two sizes too large in order to accommodate the medical equipment he wears. He’d taken off his belt to go through the scanner and once in the office with security personnel, his pants fell down around his ankles. “I had to ask twice if it was OK to pull up my shorts,” said Sawyer, “And every time I tried to tell them about my medical condition, they said they didn’t need to know about that.” . . .
“One agent watched as the other used his flat hand to go slowly down my chest. I tried to warn him that he would hit the bag and break the seal on my bag, but he ignored me. Sure enough, the seal was broken and urine started dribbling down my shirt and my leg and into my pants.” . . .
Humiliated, upset and wet, Sawyer said he had to walk through the airport soaked in urine, board his plane and wait until after takeoff before he could clean up.
If we are subjecting ourselves to this kind of treatment, this kind of humiliation, it is an even bigger victory than the murder of 3,000 lives. With all due respect to the memory of those innocents who were murdered in cold blood by 19 Arab Muslims, the aggressive TSA molestation is the long-term American minstrel show suffered by hundreds of thousands, which the terrorists ultimately hoped for.
As I’ve said before on this site, the scariest experience is not “Flying While Muslim” or “Flying While Arab.” It’s Flying While American . . . especially if you are a non-Muslim. While this poor man, Thomas Sawyer was literally forced to fly with piss all over, the piss is on all American travelers, frankly, because we refuse to demand the TSA do the right thing: profiling.
Tags: airports, bladder cancer, cancer, flying, groping, Islam, Muslims, piss, profiling, terrorism, terrorists won, Thomas Sawyer, TSA, urine, urostomy bag, video
Debbie, that’s not the worst of it.
Now dress up as a Muslim and see if they frisk you that aggressively at the airport.
I bet they will let you through with flying colors! And this decent American didn’t deserve this kind of treatment at the hands of our own government.
That’s why they’re laughing at us in the Muslim World!
NormanF on November 22, 2010 at 1:31 pm