TSA ruins little girl's life.

Well, I guess saying her life is ruined is kind of an overstatement (I may have just been trying to get your attention). But you're reading this now, so read the article!

A 4 year-old girl was detained at the airport in Wichita, Kansas, after she was apparently declared a "high-security threat" by Transportation Security Administration officials for hugging her Grandma. She was promptly taken away by officials with her mother in tow, crying in bewilderment through the whole egregious pat-down. As Hugo Gye of the Daily Mail reports:

Four-year-old Isabella's horrific experience in Wichita earlier this month was recounted on Facebook by her furious mother Michelle Brademeyer.

The family was in Kansas for a wedding, and was travelling home to Montana with Ms Brademeyer's mother.

Ms Brademeyer and her two children had passed through security when the grandmother was detained after triggering an alarm on the scanners.

Isabella then, according to her mother, 'excitedly ran over to give her a hug, as children often do. They made very brief contact, no longer than a few seconds.'

The young girl was immediately detained by security agents, who apparently shouted at her that she would have to be frisked too, and refused to let her mother explain what has happening.

Ms Brademeyer wrote: 'It was implied, several times, that my mother, in their brief two-second embrace, had passed a handgun to my daughter.'

The girl in question...Terrorism evolved. America, prepare yourself.

Indeed, those little girls hugging their Grandmas have always seemed pretty suspicious to me. This has Islamic Extremism written all over it; but wait, there's more:

In her terror, Isabella tried to run away rather than face a full body pat-down, which unsurprisingly enraged the TSA officers further.
One officer even told the girl's mother that the airport would have to be shut down and every flight cancelled if the four-year-old did not co-operate.
They also apparently described the little girl as a 'high security threat'.
As Isabella was taken into a side room for a pat-down, accompanied by her mother, she could not stop crying and refused to let the agents touch her.
An officer repeatedly said she had 'seen a gun in a teddy bear' in the past, in an apparent attempt to justify the situation.
Ms Brademeyer continued: 'The TSO loomed over my daughter, with an angry grimace on her face, and ordered her to stop crying.
'When my scared child could not do so, two TSOs called for backup saying, "The suspect is not cooperating."
Isabella continued to cry, and officers said the family would have to leave the airport as the TSA was unable to frisk the four-year-old.
When a manager was called, he decided that the distraught Isabella could be checked alongside her mother, and let the family pass through security at last.
But their nightmare was not yet over, as on a connecting flight in Denver, an airport employee demanded to know which of the family was Isabella - and 'looked really confused' when the girl was pointed out to her.

The TSA is a joke. It seems like every week, a new tale of TSA hi-jinx arises, whether it's borderline molesting young disabled kids or stealing iPads from passengers.

As it stands, TSA personnel are accountable only to historically uncaring and lazy Government Officials. Transfer airline security responsibility to the Airlines or Airports themselves, so that buffonery on this scale by Security Personnel holds their employers commercially accountable. Believe me, if the Airlines were accountable for the behavior and effectiveness of Security Personnel, not only would Airline terminals probably be twice as secure, but the Airlines would make DAMN sure that Security Personnel were not scaring away customers.

A wise man once said, in reference to the TSA: Fire 'em all and Privatize.