Okay everyone imagine this nightmare scene, you are walking along when some complete stranger comes up and starts running his/her hands all over your six year old daughter/sister/niece touching her in highly inappropriate places without even giving you the flimsiest reasons why. What would you do? I know what I would do and it definitely involves putting my fists in very inappropriate places on the attacker. At the very least, people should be screaming in outrage and yelling for the cops. Except what do you do when the person molesting your little girl is the cops?
http://news.yahoo.com/video/politics-15749652/tsa-frisks-6-year-old-parents-speak-out-24890589 covers this horrible situation. A little girl is pulled away from her parents in an airport and is frisked by a TSA officer. The frisk involves touching her on her chest and bottom and peeking down the front of her pants. (I shit you not, watch the video. All this time the parents are asking why this is happening and the little girl is doing her best to be polite even though it is obvious that she is terrified.
All I can say to this travesty is WTF? Okay I am all for safety and security while flying. I have nothing against the various scanners and such that travelers have to endure. I do have some problems with the officers grabbing adults searching for contraband/bombs etc. Yes it is embarrassing and annoying, but at least adults have some concept of what is happening and can move past it. Little kids are taught from birth that letting anyone touch them in improper places is bad and that they should tell adults when it happens. Well, here it is happening while adults watch and no one is doing anything to protect her.
Needless to say that the little girl was terrified and wondered what she did wrong to be punished that way. Needless to say her parents are angry at the event. This little girl will probably have nightmares because of this and be very confused for some time to come and yet nothing is being done about it.
It seems like every month, people are being asked to give up more and more freedoms and dignity in the name of safety and security. Many times I have asked, "Where do we draw the line?" Well, now I am saying that this is where we draw the line. When our children are molested by the very same people that are supposed to be protecting them, it is time to draw the line and start pushing back. It is time we stopped saying, "well that is the way it has to be" and start saying, "OH HELL NO!"
Our children are our greatest treasures and the only real hope the future has. Let's start treating them that way.
Rambles and Rants about pretty much everything ranging from Bad Service to Political Correctness. Being offensive and making people go "Hmmm" for the better part of two decades.
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