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TSA Pats Down 3-Year-Old

There really isn’t much more to say about the atrocities committed by the TSA, it’s sort of become an expectation that they will periodically make headlines with their stupid actions. This week was no exception.

This week at Chicago’s O’Hare airport, a three-year-old boy in a wheelchair and cast was patted down on his way to a Disney vacation with this family. So many elements are wrong with this story I don’t even know where to begin. Since when has the TSA ever seen a bomb being transported via handicapped toddler? The boy, tearing and asking for his mom, is so confused as to why the agent has to swab his cast and lift his shirt. Oh, and a bonus perverse action, in the video you can see an elderly man with a cane being escorted into the screening area. Classy, TSA. But why stop at the boy? Why not scare his two siblings or his grandparents? Continue to do inhumane things and the nation will continue to hate you.