TSA suggests tells kids enhanced patdowns are a game
TSA is stuck on stupid. To get children to cooperate with their 'enhanced patdowns,' they are trying to convince them that it's a game. That doesn't sit well with experts on child sexual abuse. Ken Wooden, founder of Child Lures Prevention, says the TSA's recommendation that children be told the pat-down is a "game" is potentially putting children in danger.Is there no one in America anymore with a sense of modesty and decency who can convince these people that this is just plain wrong? It doesn't help security anyway - you won't find anything a terrorist sticks in a body cavity.
Telling a child that they are engaging in a game is "one of the most common ways" that sexual predators use to convince children to engage in inappropriate contact, Wooden told Raw Story.
Children "don't have the sophistication" to distinguish between a pat-down carried out by an airport security officer and an assault by a sexual predator, he said.
The TSA policy could "desensitize children to inappropriate touch and ultimately make it easier for sexual offenders to prey on our children," Wooden added.
Following an outcry last month over the use on children of "enhanced pat-downs" -- which involve the touching of genitals -- the TSA announced a new "modified" pat-down for children under 12. However, as the LA Times noted, the new rules are "unclear" on whether TSA agents can touch children's genitals.
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"How can experts working at the TSA be so incredibly misinformed and misguided to suggest that full body pat downs for children be portrayed as a game?" Wooden asked in an email. "To do so is completely contrary to what we in the sexual abuse prevention field have been trying to accomplish for the past thirty years."
He added: "This policy is also incredibly insensitive to the countless victims who have already been traumatized by unwanted touching in their lives and could be re-traumatized by such pat-downs."
Labels: airport security, enhanced pat downs, strip or grope, TSA
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 4:22 AM
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There are lots of us with a sense of modesty and decency in America. But we don't control the government. Just as the Israeli government does things that many of its people oppose, so too here.
What we're discovering now is that a hole was made in the 4th amendment by court precedents years ago and that this is now being exploited. Technically, the courts could still rein in the TSA, but it seems like that isn't happening.
I think that all prospective Republican 2012 candidates should be speaking out loudly against the TSA now and should make that a campaign issue.
I wish that Sarah Palin would speak out against it, but she hasn't as far as I have heard.
Clearly profiling is needed. And the profiling needs to include those who are social with the profilees.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindawi_affair
Never forget the Hindawi affair.
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