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"WASHINGTON, D.C. Janet Napolitano, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, held a press conference today to announce a new program designed to make kids and their parents more comfortable with the TSA’s new enhanced pat-down procedures.
“Domestic extremists have been trying to portray TSA agents as ogres,” said Napolitano. “Our ‘Cool Strangers With Candy’ campaign will help our children see TSA workers for what they are: friendly, funny, cool strangers who will give kids great candy in exchange for touching their breasts, buttocks, and genitals.”
The TSA’s approach to enhanced pat-downs of kids has come under fire recently after TSA Regional Security Director James Marchand described the TSA’s method of encouraging children to comply with being touched in their private regions by government officials. “You try to make it as best you can for that child to come through. If you can come up with some kind of a game to play with a child, it makes it a lot easier,” said Marchand, who said that the “being touched is a game” program is now part of TSA training.
Stung by criticism that this “game” approach makes children more vulnerable to abuse, Napolitano and other TSA officials vowed to use all of the good judgment and scientific expertise of the the Department of Homeland Security to come up with a new program.
“We used the same scientific know-how we previously employed in the behavior detection program and in employing body scanners,” Napolitano said. “‘Cool Strangers With Candy’ was the result.”
The TSA is planning aggressive advertising to promote the “Cool Strangers With Candy” Program, including internet, television, radio, and magazine campaigns, as well as community relations vans."
http://www.popehat.com/2010/12/04/tsa-rolls-out-cool-strangers-with-candy-program/
Thoughts in these times?
MO
"WASHINGTON, D.C. Janet Napolitano, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, held a press conference today to announce a new program designed to make kids and their parents more comfortable with the TSA’s new enhanced pat-down procedures.
“Domestic extremists have been trying to portray TSA agents as ogres,” said Napolitano. “Our ‘Cool Strangers With Candy’ campaign will help our children see TSA workers for what they are: friendly, funny, cool strangers who will give kids great candy in exchange for touching their breasts, buttocks, and genitals.”
The TSA’s approach to enhanced pat-downs of kids has come under fire recently after TSA Regional Security Director James Marchand described the TSA’s method of encouraging children to comply with being touched in their private regions by government officials. “You try to make it as best you can for that child to come through. If you can come up with some kind of a game to play with a child, it makes it a lot easier,” said Marchand, who said that the “being touched is a game” program is now part of TSA training.
Stung by criticism that this “game” approach makes children more vulnerable to abuse, Napolitano and other TSA officials vowed to use all of the good judgment and scientific expertise of the the Department of Homeland Security to come up with a new program.
“We used the same scientific know-how we previously employed in the behavior detection program and in employing body scanners,” Napolitano said. “‘Cool Strangers With Candy’ was the result.”
The TSA is planning aggressive advertising to promote the “Cool Strangers With Candy” Program, including internet, television, radio, and magazine campaigns, as well as community relations vans."
http://www.popehat.com/2010/12/04/tsa-rolls-out-cool-strangers-with-candy-program/
Thoughts in these times?
MO
