It has been a little while since Big Brother Watch last reported on airline security officers and the intrusive procedures government rules force them to carry out on members of the public before they are allowed to undertake air travel.
Regrettably, a supporter has been in touch this afternoon to alert us of the case of six year old Anna Drexel who was forced to undergo a body-search at New Orleans airport. According to a news report published in The Telegraph, the child was left upset and confused following the process.
Cases like this only serve to illustrate the increasingly irrational approach airport staff are forced to take towards airline security. Common sense should surely dictate that a six year old child should not be subjected to such an intrusive procedure. After all, as the mother of the girl in question said, such searches are "inappropriate for children because they are usually told not to let adults touch them in sensitive areas".
Hat-tip: JS
In my opinion this is an obscene video and the security officer has paedophilic tendencies - I really cannot draw any other conclusion.
To subject a child of this age to such an intimate search is outrageous.
Posted by: vervet | 14/04/2011 at 08:02 PM
Vervet is right. Please remove this child porn from your site.
Posted by: jn | 14/04/2011 at 11:24 PM
Man... We retain it mega old-skool. 7. ???Bouncer??à Recognized previously because the ???bully, braggart and boaster??à from what we are able to inform, the term
Posted by: Nike Free Run | 15/04/2011 at 02:17 AM
Hmm, difficult call on this one.
Its all well and good being outraged but when an airliner, perhaps carrying your nearest and dearest, is brought down by a bomb strapped to the back of an infant then you have forfeit the right to cry about it.
Do you think that those who mean us harm will not stoop so low as to use children as their tools - just look at the child-soldiers of the African troubles.
In the war against terrorism we have two choices: take moderate security measures and be prepared to accept moderate losses to terror actions; or be unwilling to accept losses and accept draconian security measures.
And JN - grow up. This is not child pornography and if you think it is then perhaps you should sit in a dark room for a while and have a long hard think.
Posted by: Peterloo | 15/04/2011 at 01:28 PM
@peterloo
She put her hands down the front of the kid's trousers. I pretty much did have to sit in a dark room and think.
Posted by: jn | 15/04/2011 at 05:53 PM
Following the events of 7.7.05, in consistency the authorities ought to institute the same measures for bus and tube travellers. That they do not do so suggests that the measures they adopted for air travellers are merely security porn.
Posted by: jn | 15/04/2011 at 05:57 PM
please take off the autoplay it is ruining my bandwidth, and continues even after you click 'pause' beore anybody says that - thanks
Posted by: Purlieu | 17/04/2011 at 09:28 PM
Yes, please take the autoplay off, it's distressing viewing.
Posted by: jn | 17/04/2011 at 09:36 PM