Photographer Who Caught TSA Patting Down Eight Month Old Baby: ‘Never Seen Anything Quite That Bad’

by Mark Joyella | 9:29 am, May 10th, 2011

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The pastor who took pictures over the weekend of TSA agents at Kansas City International Airport patting down an eight-month old baby says he’s “never seen anything quite that bad,” said Jacob Jester, who pulled out his phone and take pictures. He sent the pictures to Twitter, setting off a viral firestorm. “So far, I’ve had 143,000 hits on (the photo). Kansas City airport tweeted me, and they said it would be up to TSA to offer a response. I haven’t heard anything from TSA, and I don’t expect to.”

In an interview, Jester said “I was thinking, what would I do if this happened to my son? I understand that my security is at stake. I appreciate TSA trying to make flying more secure. But I wouldn’t want it to happen to my son.”

The TSA, meanwhile, which has a blogger called “Blogger Bob,” has shared its side of the story:

We reviewed the screening of this family, and found that the child’s stroller alarmed during explosives screening. Our officers followed proper current screening procedures by screening the family after the alarm, who by the way were very cooperative and were on the way to their gate in no time. The child in the photo was simply receiving a modified pat-down.

Kansas City, TSA

seek

They profiled the little tyke and decided he was a threat. Oh yes sorry, profiling is not allowed, but stupidity is.
Tony the Fist

Good for them. If that baby is anything like my boy, he’s got some bombs in that diaper.
Mosesdinoark

Oh the horror! The horror! How dare they? We must protect our children!
tatboy

Stranger touching your kid = not OK.
Stranger wearing TSA badge touching your kid = OK.
Got it.
TerryDo

This picture speaks a thousand words and each word says Obama and his government do not know who the enemy is, and so the global command from Obama is let us check everyone’s from new born to old grandmother because it is very difficult to recognize the Barbarian Muslim Terrorists, and we wouldn’t want to offend the “guiltless” Muslims, so lets us offend our own citizens and humiliate them for all the world to see.

A truthful quote from Dietrich Bonhoeffer “Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”

When you don’t speak out against such humiliation, you are speaking in effect saying it is o.k. to offend us; because the threat of another 9/11 was very terrifying to a lot of people, but that shock is lessening.

Most people forget that when it our time to die, nothing will prevent our death, as we witness time and time again, so to live in fear of your life ending abruptly is the hold, that terrorists have over us.

Americans on planes or elsewhere now know how to bravely act and upon their actions, all fear of terrorist is subdued.
JacksonGT

I read that headline wrong and thought it said a one month old baby. I thought, “damn, that’s a BIG month old! Poor mom!” Glad to see I was wrong.

The minute we say ‘babies are off limits’ guess what’s gonna happen? And think about the consequences.
Tedderman

Where was this guy when that Miss America was being TSA’d?
misterbee

Sadly, the TRUE ENEMY, Islam, wouldn’t hesitate at loading an explosive device on a child or an infant. “Profiling” use to be referred to as “identifying a potential suspect.”

And interestingly, as I write this, there appears immediately below the “Submit Comment” bar a headline which states:

“Osama Bin Laden’s Sons Release Statement To New York Times Condemning His ‘Arbitrary Killing’
by Jon Bershad | 2:15 pm, Tuesday”

Curiously, the woman with the “son” in the photo isn’t wearing a burka.
Ever whose side the NYT is on when people who want to kill us run to the Times for sympathy and publicity?
my dogs gone

If that baby had a turban on, the pilots would probably deplane.
REXHANDSOM

The people who cut off heads, are not shy about making any baby or sweet grandma
a 4th of July display, explosives of to day would fit nicely in any diaper or …………………
…………PLANE GO’S BOOM……….. Bad Baby Bad Grandma… Very Bad Security
Darklady

I thought TSA wasn’t going to do pat downs on pre-pubescent children anymore?
MTinMO

You did read the story right? Where it said the child’s stroller alarmed when it went through the explosive tester? Had that alarm not gone off, the child would have surely been able to go through in one parents arms. Just like people who use their child’s stroller to shoplift, you can never be sure what a person might do. We have read stories where people have hidden drugs in babies diaper and cocaine in their powdered formula. We know there were white American women who were arrested overseas- remember Jihad Jane? How does TSA ignore an explosives alarm?
Tedderman

There is a myriad of substances that can set off explosives alarms that aren’t explosive. And people who push their childerns strollers through grass may come in contact with fertilizers whish would set off these sensitive alarms. But better safe than sorry, right? The Government must protect us all at any expence, no matter how many times we have to see this same stupid story.
Snidely

Y’think there might be a few nitrates in a baby stroller (Hint: urine is full of nitrates)? Somebody with standing REALLY needs to take Big Sis and her thugs to court.. I don’t fly, so I don’t have standing, or I would.
Barack Must Go

Photographer Who Caught TSA Patting Down Eight Month Old Baby: ‘Never Seen Anything Quite That Bad’.

I guess this photographer has been out of the country for the past 21/2 years or so and is unaware of the unspeakable debauchery that’s taken place in our White House since the Obama family moved in.