The Security Mentor

83-year-old invalid abusively searched

Don't yawn and say "Oh, another of those". It will keep happening unless we stay outraged and do something.

Bogart had breast cancer surgery in 1997, a total hip
replacement after a fall in 1999, a major stroke in 2004 that caused
dementia, and is hard of hearing

The TSA screener ordered her to stand up from her wheelchair, against medical advice:

Fearing another hip-shattering fall, Moon instinctively reached out
for her mother.

"Don't touch her!" Moon says the screener barked.

But surely, if the situation were explained to the screener?

Moon said she continued to tell the screener that her mother was not to stand without her four-wheeled walker.

"You'd better change your attitude," Moon recalls the screener saying.
"Or do you want me to make it so you don't fly today?"

But surely the TSA works for us and they're accountable?

She demanded the name of the young screener in her mid-to-late 20s with darkish hair pulled back in a bun.

A TSA manager refused to give her the screener's name

If you live in Colorado write to your Congressperson and demand that he/she pressure the TSA until they do a real investigation.

• Diana DeGette
• John Salazar
• Joel Hefley
• Bob Beaupres
• Mark Udall
• Marilyn Musgrave
• Thomas Tancredo

or just type in your zip code at http://www.house.gov/writerep/