TSA forces 4 year old disabled boy to remove leg braces to pass through airport security

When you read about a story like this you realize that we have gone too far in attempting to be politically correct.

A police officer and his wife were taking their four year old son to Walt Disney World to celebrate his birthday. The Thomas’ had more to celebrate than just their son’s birthday. Ryan Thomas was born prematurely and because of this his legs were not fully developed; he just began walking with the help of leg braces.

When he tried to pass through airport security with his leg braces on the metal detector went off. The TSA agent at the scene ordered Ryan to remove the leg braces and walk through the detector, to the surprise of his parents who argued that Ryan could not walk through on his own without the braces. Ryan’s mother offered to walk through with him for support but the TSA agent said that was not allowed. Ryan had to walk through on his own.

The boys parents were allowed to walk through directly in front of and behind Ryan to protect him in case he fell; he did not fall, he made it through the detector on his own.

Needless to say, Ryan’s parents are not happy and they shouldn’t be. But this is what we have come to as a country under Janet Napolitano and Barack Obama. This administration is so damned concerned about offending Muslims that the TSA has reached the point where they must make a boy who is developmentally delayed take off his leg braces and risk injury so that we can show the world that we are not profiling Muslims.

This is disgusting, uncalled for, and totally reprehensible.

Here is the truth; we have a profile of who the terrorists are, we can not admit it but everyone knows that it is true. But we have to play this politically correct game and pretend that profiling does not exist, and you know what? With this administration it may not exist and that is a shame.

Profiling is not only not wrong, it is a necessary tool; not only in fighting terrorism, but in fighting crime also. When a crime is witnessed by an individual what is the first question that the police ask? They ask for a description of the criminal. A description is a profile. The police then look for a person who fits that description. That is not wrong, that is how criminals are caught. Will the police then question people who do not fit the profile of the criminal just so that they can claim they are not looking for a person of a particular race, no matter what race that is? I certainly hope not. What would be the use of obtaining a profile if you are not going to use it to solve a crime.

It is no different in regards to terrorism; we know who the terrorists are and what they look like. Stopping people who fit the profile of a terrorist does not mean that you are accusing that person of being a terrorist, it simply means that you are doing your best to protect the public from terrorism. Most clear thinking Muslims understand this.

The fact that we have reached a point in this country where Homeland Security is more afraid of offending the people we are trying to fight than they are of offending the parents of a four year old developmentally delayed boy– who obviously does not fit the profile of the people the TSA is looking for– in the interest of pretending that a profile of terrorists does not exist is just more proof that this administration lacks the courage it takes to fight terrorism.

The United States is granting Khalid Sheikh Mohammed– the admitted mastermind of September 11th, Nadal-Hasan– the Fort Hood terrorist, and the Christmas day bomber full constitutional rights as if they were Americans citizens and they are harassing four year old disabled children as they try to pass through airport security and we are supposed to think that this administration takes terrorism seriously?