If You Have a Prosthetic, Prepare For a TSA-Mandated Humiliation

The TSA forced a flight attendant, who survived breast cancer, to remove her prosthetic breast and show it to the screener. A man with a urine-collection bag following bladder cancer left a TSA enhanced pat-down soaked in urine.

Breda has been all over the issue of how the TSA handles travelers with prostheses.

The TSA's problem with amputees and people with medical devices is grounded in two of the TSA's operating assumptions: 1) All passengers are terrorists until proven otherwise; and 2) all TSA screeners are imbeciles with non-functioning cerebellums. If you take those two assumptions into account, then everything that the TSA does will make sense. That is why, when some discretion and/or common sense would seem to be required, the TSA is utterly lacking.

But if you are a powerful member of Congress, like John Boehner, you don't have to bother with being screened.