Quoted from Frax:

Ahh....American hypocrisy. I love how many people will freak the hell out over a cop wanting to search their car during a traffic stop, but being effectively personally violated at an airport makes it A-OK. Exactly how many deaths a year can we attribute to bad/drunk driving versus how many deaths by "planes being flown by terrorists"? You don't get it both ways, people. Either you're okay with the government performing unreasonable searches at all times, or never. There's no grey area here.
Sounds to me like this could have been easily handled by the slightest amount of competence on the part of the TSA, but as we've learned over the years, the government has no interest in paying salaries that competent people are interested in. 95% of those people are RUDE and dumber than a sack of ball peen hammers. The rude is forgiveable....I understand dealing with the public and I wouldn't want to be doing it either. But the incompetence? They operate on the opposite way that criminal justice works in this country. You're guilty until proven innocent. It's gone far beyond "reasonable" when they can't just ask someone to empty their pocket AGAIN when there's GOVERNMENT ISSUED LEGAL TENDER setting off their scanner...ridiculous... not everyone knows that crap is printed with magnetic ink....but every TSA agent should, and people SHOULD be treated with respect for minor missteps like that, not groped up or stripped.
Only thing I'm going to say, and I feel like I'm already risking a pee-pee-slap from the mods, so no responses to replies on this one.. feel free to downvote, as I'm sure I'll get a ton just like anytime I do where I'm not Team America World Police around here..

Quoted from inhomearcades:

Actually your vehicle is an extension of your residence whereas when you decide to go to the airport your agreeing to any and all searches. If your not okay with that, please don't go to the airport. It's people that believe they should be stripped searching if the tsa decides to do so that throw fits and create lines that the rest of us end up dealing with. Nothing more annoying than being at the airport and arrogant rude passengers feel they have rights to act how they want and look around for people to agree with their tantrum. Those are the people who should be banned from air travel. Just because you pay for a service does not give you the right to think you can skirt the rules you agree to when you purchase said service.

Quoted from Richthofen:

How would you feel if your junk was touched by a TSA person as part of a pat-down? Compliance has limits; especially compliance just for compliances' sake.

Call me when someone weaponizes a $5 bill.

Quoted from Richthofen:

I severely underestimated how much Pinsiders enjoy getting their junk touched by underpaid government workers. Apparently I'm on the wrong forum.
It's cool. This kid could have definitely been a terrorist.
http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2017/03/29/mom-films-tsa-groping-special-needs-child-sparks-internet-outrage.html

Quoted from sbmania:

I'm fine if they check everyone. It's when they make a big show of checking a few middle aged or elderly mainstream Americans while at the same time letting obvious Muslims go by unchallenged because they are scared to death of being called islamophobic or racist . Their political correctness invalidates 90% of the effectiveness of the so-called security checks. The Israelis are one of the only ones who get security right.
And give me a break about how many terrorists they catch that we never hear about. Do you really believe that???

Quoted from beelzeboob:

I feel the same way. But in my case, it's more like, hey...good luck finding it.

Quoted from beelzeboob:

That's happened. But I thought it was because of my tits.

Quoted from Skins:

How exactly does the tsa know a person is Muslim? Do they have a mark affixed to their clothing identifying themselves as Muslim? I have a relative who is Muslim. White as the wind driven snow. I shit you not.

Quoted from Skins:

Seriously, LOL.

Thank you for saving me the time.

Quoted from Skins:

You're arguing just to argue. Also, I don't know what you're saying is true. What I do know you're saying is incredibly miopic and terribly uniformed. The fact is, 1.6 billion (with a B) or 26% of the world population worship Islam and are muslims. For you to think they all look like a middle easterner is painfully foolish. Thankfully, those charged with our safety see things a touch broader than that. Additionally, you are assuming (incorrectly I might add) I'm against pat downs. The issue I had was pezpunk stereotyping a religion with an ethnicity. I found that ironic.

Quoted from pezpunk:

Uhhhh you know 'muslim' is a religion and not a skin color, right? And that there are literally millions of Americans who are also Muslims?

Quoted from pezpunk:

I have literally no idea, actually, unless you are using the word "American" in a racist way that excludes people of Arab descent. so if I've interpreted your post wrong, then please clarify this statement:
"of the people that worship the Islam religion here in the U.S., about 99.999 percent of them are Muslim. I realize there are a handful of people that are Americans that decide they want to worship the Islam religion, but it's a very very very minute percentage of our population."

Quoted from pinbum:

Pez is just trying to bait you in for a thread ban Who Dey , do not fall for it, he is great at it.

Quoted from pezpunk:

Hah, thanks. I don't want anyone banned, though. I just want people to realize there are 3 million Americans who are Muslim. (Also, it'd be nice to acknowledge that people of any skin color can follow any religion, particularly in this country)
Furthermore, casually equating Muslims with terrorists is problematic, considering how many massacres in America have been perpetrated by extremists of religions or belief systems other than Islam.

Quoted from trunchbull:

It is, though, important to recognize that people of the Muslim faith are not only populous around the world, but are of many ethnicities, and there's a lot of really sad and nasty stuff that gets thrown at people just for looking a certain way that's propagated by ignorance of that fact.

Quoted from pezpunk:

My arguments were 100% spot on and I saw zero people attempt to address them.

Quoted from pezpunk:

not sure what else to call it when a person confuses being Arab-looking with being Muslim with being a terrorist, and then spams snore icons when i point out that it's an extremely ignorant thing to do.

Quoted from pinbum:

I will take you up on that, i would'nt mind having a AFM.

Quoted from pinbum:

Now i really want this AFM ! I hope he was serious

Quoted from beelzeboob:

And I'll help you get it. I've been known to be just as much of a dick in person as I am on Pinside.

Quoted from TheFamilyArcade:

Moderators, please lock this stupid, fucking thread.