As Nick Gillespie noted earlier this morning, Transportation Security Administration screeners at a Florida airport this past weekend required a 95-year-old wheel-chair-bound woman to remove her adult diaper before heading to her gate. According to her daughter, the woman has leukemia and needed last-minute blood transfusions to bolster her immune system before travelling, but "was very calm" despite "the fact that she had to go through the airport without underwear."

If such incidents are starting to feel almost common, there's a reason for that: TSA screeners are doing exactly what they're supposed to be doing.

When the online response to this weekend's screening faux pas grew to a howl, the TSA issued the same statement it's issued dozens of times since its founding: "We have reviewed the circumstances involving this screening and determined that our officers acted professionally and according to proper procedure."

Here are some other incidents and responses:

These bodily violations, in other words, are consistent with how the TSA thinks travelers should be treated. Screeners are simply following orders.

UPDATE: The AP has more on this weekend's diaper fiasco:

Jean Weber said Monday her mother was trying to board a flight from Fort Walton Beach, Fla., to Detroit on June 18. Weber says she helped her mother, Lena Reppert, through the scanning machines. That's when the Transportation Security Administration screener pulled them aside and said there was a suspicious spot on Reppert's diaper. The woman ultimately took off the wet diaper so she could be cleared in time for her flight. Reppert is suffering from leukemia and wants to buried in Hastings, Mich. The TSA says its inspectors handled the situation correctly and professionally and didn't require Reppert to remove her diaper.

So much for dignity.