Tag Archive | "TSA"

Toddler and parents booted off plane after airline says child’s name on on-fly list

Thursday, May 10, 2012

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Well here’s a weird one. An 18-month-old girl and her parents were removed from a JetBlue flight preparing to leave Ft. Lauderdale Airport Tuesday because the airline said the toddler’s name appeared on a no-fly list. The toddler, Riyanna and her parents were asked to leave the flight by an employee and then met with TSA officials.

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Quasi-celebrity makes stupid remark (yes it has something to do with travel)

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

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Just when the furor over the TSA screening procedures was dying down a quasi-celebrity decided to throw her two cents into the debate. Khloe Kardashian, famous for essentially nothing, recently compared the TSA's enhanced pat-down procedures to being raped.

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Opt-Out Day a bust

Thursday, November 25, 2010

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Yesterday was Opt-Out Day in the United States, an online call for passengers to refuse to go through controversial full body scanners at US airports forcing Transportation Safety Administration guards to pat-down more passengers. Well it was kind of a non-event.

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TSA go away

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

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The anti-TSA movement is growing. The TSA has been public enemy number one in the United States for the past several weeks thanks to their invasive airport screening procedures which include body-scanners - which produce a nude image of a person - and 'enhanced' pat-downs that are a little too up close and personal for passengers.

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What you can and cannot due when going through US airport security

Monday, November 22, 2010

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No doubt you've heard the uproar from our neighbours to the south over the Transportation Safety Board's increasingly invasive passenger screening methods. You know the "naked scanners" and pat-downs that border on groping.

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