TSA agents call multiple deaf people "f'ing deafies" and steal their candy. True

[Fletch]

Well now we have even more conflicting information.

Per Reason...

"is concerned for negative consequences for himself and other people with disabilities. He was venting primarily to other people with disabilities. This post has gone way past what he wants." So if you click through, and the Tumblr page is down, that's why.

They say he pulled it....hmmm.

Hmmm indeed.

 

[Hotdoger]

I am going to need more reputable information about this situation before I can make a decision. A blog post is hardly evidence for any wrong doing. People say that LE beat, yell, cuss out, etc citizens on a daily business. I have a hard time believing anyone with the ability to get to work everyday by themselves has the gumption to jam a finger into someones chest and call them a ****ing deafy while they know they are being recorded. As is usual with these TSA cases, they go about 75/25 false to true.

Why did he pull his blog offline? The original account of events.

Lets go to the tape to see what really happened.

 

[Kedric]

I don't think any of us truly have any doubt that the TSA jackboots did exactly what he said they did. Nor are we truly surprised at their behavior. Appalled, enraged, disgusted.... you betcha. Surpised? Not a bit.

As for him taking it down (if he in fact did so voluntarily and without coercion). I could easily see why he might fear some reprisals from 'big G' for daring to stand up for his rights and not going gently into the night. It's not like anyone REALLY believes they care about their citizens anymore, right?

 

[LEaSH]

I'd like to hear a response from tsa - not that I'd dislike the agency any less.

 

[Fletch]

I don't think any of us truly have any doubt that the TSA jackboots did exactly what he said they did. Nor are we truly surprised at their behavior. Appalled, enraged, disgusted.... you betcha. Surpised? Not a bit.

As for him taking it down (if he in fact did so voluntarily and without coercion). I could easily see why he might fear some reprisals from 'big G' for daring to stand up for his rights and not going gently into the night. It's not like anyone REALLY believes they care about their citizens anymore, right?

There might also be a bit of the "deaf society" thing going on... From what I understand, there are a fair number of deaf people who are what you might call "anti-integration" when it comes to the hearing world. If that's the case here, once it became news in the hearing world, he didn't want to be part of it anymore. Just look at his T-shirt and the event he attended.

 

[VikingWarlord]

I sent it to my girlfriend, who's an audiologist. She sent it to everyone she knows in the Speech and Hearing world.

It'd be awesome to see ASHA and AAA jump on this.

 

[CPT Nervous]

Why does TSA only pick on cripples and the disabled? They would let a middle easterner with an AK in his bag through screening, but strip search a 5 year old boy in a wheel chair.

Also, Soldiers get searched a lot. It makes them look like they're doing something, but they know they won't find anything.

 

[littletommy]

I'd like to hear a response from tsa - not that I'd dislike the agency any less.

They are a government agency, they don't have to respond! No consequences, no answering to anybody for their actions. I personally don't care if this particular story is true or not, the TSA needs to go, and ALL TSA employees should be branded, literally, as the traitors they are.

 

[mydoghasfleas]

Lets go to the tape to see what really happened.

This would be great, but is this available public info? If it shows TSA in a bad light, I doubt it.

 

[hornadylnl]

They are a government agency, they don't have to respond! No consequences, no answering to anybody for their actions. I personally don't care if this particular story is true or not, the TSA needs to go, and ALL TSA employees should be branded, literally, as the traitors they are.

Don't stop at just the TSA employees. Include those who created the monster as well.

 

[9mmfan]

I've said it before, and I say it again...." After a very thorough internal investigation, it has been determined that our security officials did absolutely nothing wrong."

Now everybody just move along, nothing to see here...

 

[megalomaniac]

I will knaw off my arm to avoid going through TSA checkpoints. Just Sayin'!

 

[buckstopshere]

Why does TSA only pick on cripples and the disabled? They would let a middle easterner with an AK in his bag through screening, but strip search a 5 year old boy in a wheel chair.

Also, Soldiers get searched a lot. It makes them look like they're doing something, but they know they won't find anything.

Wolves always target the weakest members of the herd.

 

[Expat]

I've said it before, and I say it again...." After a very thorough internal investigation, it has been determined that our security officials did absolutely nothing wrong."

Now everybody just move along, nothing to see here...

Well that makes me feel a lot better

 

[IndyDave1776]

Wolves always target the weakest members of the herd.

Weakest and most naive. The reason that the North American elk herd is of the greatest average age it has ever been is that the wolves kill the newborns before all four hooves hit the ground during birth. I definitely see the connection.

 

[Kedric]

Wolves are far too noble to be compared to TSA or DHS agents. Just sayin'.....

 

[Lex Concord]

Somebody tell me again why the TSA still exists and why they also now have authority over all "transportation" (please don't say the Patriot Act, we all know that)

To get as many of us used to being herded as will do so voluntarily.

EDIT:

When I think of TSA, I often think of this skit from Bizarre in the '80s

http://youtu.be/dhgNiU5s34M

 

[JimmyJames]

Hey, it's not like they are burning disabled citizens in ovens.

Things could be much worse.

These brown shirts, er, blue shirts are here to keep you safe.