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TSA Agent Fired Over Hate Remarks Against Muslims

Lincoln Ware — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 16:53:16 +0000

A TSA agent at O’Hare airport in Chicago has been fired after he posted anti-Muslim and racist comments on his Facebook page.

Roy Egan worked at the airport for close to a decade and was suspended in October after TSA found him to be in violation of employee conduct on and off the job.

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The postings — consisting of comments and graphic images alike — on Egan’s Facebook page are startling. In addition to anti-gay and anti-Muslim remarks, Egan allegedly posted racist comments about African Americans and Latinos.

“Does anything at all make you smile more than a Muslim burning by his own hateful hand?” Egan reportedly wrote in one post. He describes President Obama as “Muslim-in-chief” in another. He wrote that Attorney General Eric Holder should “die tasting your own blood,” according to ABC.

Isis Brantley: Why Would I Hide A Bomb In My Afro?

1230am WDBZ — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 14:59:11 +0000

This morning, on the Tom Joyner Morning Show, Jacque Reid invited Isis Brantley to call in the show about her incident with the TSA. Last week, she told the press that the TSA at Atlanta’s Airport stopped her to search in her Afro for bombs. Take a listen to the interview to hear Isis’s side of the story, and find out what she’s doing to prevent this from happening again.

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Outrage! TSA Humiliates Woman Checking Her Afro For Bombs

Lincoln Ware — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 21:43:09 +0000

Airport security recently took to the afro of a Black Dallas woman after agents told her they had to check her hair for bombs.

Isis Brantley was walking through Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport headed for Dallas when TSA officials ran her down just to check her hair.

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“She took her hand and she started digging around in my hair several times, and I said … Please don’t do this to me. This is humiliating and embarrassing,’” Brantley told KXAS.

Natural Hair Pat-Downs Bring Charges Of Racial Profiling

Lincoln Ware — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 22:28:22 +0000

Black women are complaining that the Transportation Security Administration is engaging in a new, humiliating brand of racial profiling: pat-downs of long, natural hair-dos.

According to an article by Joe Sharkey in the New York Times, these body searches are happening even when total-body scans aren’t setting off alarms:

On June 30, a young African-American woman, Laura Adiele, said that a screener at the Seattle-Tacoma airport insisted on patting down her hair, which was also natural and curly, even though the body scan had not set off an alarm. Ms. Adiele said in various interviews that she thought the search had been racially motivated.

The T.S.A. denies that. “All passengers are thoroughly screened coming through the screening checkpoint,” said Kristin Lee, a spokeswoman. “Additional screening may be required for clothing, headgear or hair where prohibited items may be hidden,” she said.

To read the entire New York Times piece, click here.

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Caution! New Terrorist Tactic Involving Explosive Breast Implants

Lincoln Ware — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 16:40:27 +0000

NEW YORK — Just when you think terrorist plots couldn’t get any more bizarre, the Transportation Security Administration has cautioned airline executives of a possible terror tactic involving surgically stitched explosives inside suicide bombers.

The NY Daily News Reports:

Terrorists simply keep looking for new ways to sneak bombs past increasingly stiff airport security, TSA spokeswoman Lisa Farbstein said.

It’s unclear if the threat means that already “enhanced” TSA patdowns would get even randier.