Call it the next-to-last straw, because surely there will be another. But when will common sense finally prevail when it comes to Transportation Security Administration airport screeners? Does anything still go in the good name of security? In effect, the TSA keeps saying that if it’s your turn for a random, pat-down search, too bad. Take one for the team.
But tell that to the 6-year-old girl who was frisked recently at the New Orleans airport by TSA screeners. Her outraged parents taped it and uploaded the video on YouTube. Now the TSA is reviewing its policies for “low-risk populations.” Presumably a 6-year-old qualifies.
Yet this is the same TSA that routinely looks askance at the politically incorrect suggestion that it should pay more attention to profiling than patting down a child. You don’t have to be with Israeli security to know that frisking a little kid doesn’t make travel more secure, but it does make cooperation and respect for the process more problematic.