TSA Pat Downs Reminds of Coldness of Nixa Police Department's Pat Down of 16 Year Old Girl Last Year

There has to be a coldness in one's heart to take advantage of a situation and humiliate a person by touching their private parts and claim there is some sense of security for the collective in doing so. Last year, I was quite vocal towards the Nixa Police Department (Nixa, Missouri) after they pulled over a 16-year-old girl on her way home from a Nixa football game who decided to change the direction of her turn as she was pulling out in traffic.

A routine traffic stop became a horrifying experience for the girl and her parents as officers decided they would use the girl without the parents knowledge and proceed to frisk her. Unfortunately, that video has been removed from KY3, which ran the story. In the video you see the officers patting down around what would be the girl's breasts. Unfortunately, they were facing away from the camera with the officer blocking much of the view. You can tell based on where his elbows were at where his hands were approximately at. It was inappropriate, especially when you consider what the officers said on the radio just prior to putting the girl through the ordeal.

They did it for "shits and grins."  Here is the transcript from the police radio:

“This would be good to do a field on her as practice, you know. . . . No pressure, she's probably not. . . . A good lighted area to do it in.”

"This is when it would be good to get a back-up. . . . Do fields on her for shits and grins.”

There is obvious a coldness within authority that makes them go this far to humiliate one all in the name of "security." Notice how authority acts when you don't want to comply. They don't give you a chance to question their authority. In the Nixa Police pat down of the 16-year-old, the minor's parents were never called. When you question your rights with the TSA, they quickly call this same mentality in that never considers Constitutional rights but is trained to force compliance. These acts we see at the airport are also happening in small town America, like in Nixa, Missouri.

It seems that law enforcement, which now includes the TSA at airports (consider them part of the American police state) have been given the pass while their badges have gone to their heads, they don't even question whether or not they are violating your Constitutional rights.

Does changing your mind about which direction you are going to leave a Taco Bell while pulling out on the road justify a cops hands all over you body? Of course not. Does simply boarding an airplane justify a government official felling you up as well? Of course not.

There is a coldness being pushed in all sectors of law enforcement including the TSA that is teaching individual rights aren't as important as the rights of the collective. That's a very dangerous proposition for our "free" country.