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| India's ambassador gets pat-down at US airport |
| 2010-12-10 |
| [Emirates 24/7] India's sari-clad ambassador was pulled from an airport security line and patted down by a TSA agent in Mississippi after attending a conference, an act one state agency official called 'unfortunate.' Those people are crazy. How much money could we save by disbanding them? Meera Shankar, India's ambassador to the United States, was subjected to the search on Saturday after speaking to an international studies program at Mississippi State University. Witnesses said Shankar was told she was pulled from a security line because of her dress - she was wearing a sari that drapes across the body Ñ and patted down by a female security agent. A Transportation Security Administration front man said diplomats are not exempt from pat-down searches and that bulky clothing is one reason for additional screening. Officials at the Indian embassy in Washington declined to discuss what happened. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 Okay, now we have a legal reason to disband the TSSA - they attempted to start a war with a friendly foreign power. Patting down an accredited diploma is classified as a major violation of the diplomatic immunity and is technically an act of war. If the TSSA is insisting on its right to violate all forms of law, it is an outlaw organization like the SS and needs to be disbanded. |
| Posted by: Shieldwolf 2010-12-10 13:27 |
| #3 A Transportation Security Administration front man said diplomats are not exempt from pat-down searches Where do they find these clowns? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2010-12-10 10:58 |
| #2 and that bulky clothing is one reason for additional screening. Why thats.... thats..... I guess only Muslims are immune from profiling... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2010-12-10 08:28 |
| #1 I read another article about this--maybe it was AP--which painted the story as a bunch of backwards Mississippi bumpkins subjecting an elegant diplomat to a pat-down. The ambassador supposedly told her university hosts, "I'm never coming back." Good. If you can't deign to subject yourself to the same indignities that Americans face while travelling, then don't be the ambassador to America you uppity b*. |
| Posted by: American Delight 2010-12-10 07:53 |