{"id":1673,"date":"2013-04-01T17:13:42","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T17:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/?p=1673"},"modified":"2026-06-24T05:50:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T05:50:26","slug":"tsa-routinely-violates-own-rules-and-the-law-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/?p=1673","title":{"rendered":"TSA routinely violates own rules and the law to discriminate against people w\/disabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"

TSA routinely violates own rules and the law to discriminate against people w\/disabilities<\/a><\/p>\n

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wilwheaton<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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wilwheaton<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Sai has \u201ca neurological disorder that causes episodic muteness and muscle spasms\u201d \u2014 basically, he sometimes becomes mute and gets bad tremors. His doctor has advised him to sip juice continuously, and this helps control his condition. TSA rules allow him to bring any amount of juice through a checkpoint. Unfortunately, the TSA doesn\u2019t read its own rules. Instead, Sai is detained at checkpoints for endless, illegal questioning and searches of his personal papers, confidential business documents, etc. When he loses the ability to speak, he uses pen and paper to communicate, but the TSA takes the pen and paper away as soon as he writes down the name of landmark legal precedents limiting their power to sue him.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s videoed one of these encounters, with the TSA and its private contractors at SFO, and he\u2019s filed grievances with various agencies over that incident and another at Boston Logan. The TSA is illegally refusing to follow its own administrative procedures, so he\u2019s getting ready to sue them (he needs an ADA and\/or FOIA-specialized lawyer qualified for the bar in MA and\/or CA and\/or federally \u2014 any takers?). He\u2019s also trying to force them to disclose their secret procedures for dealing with people with disabilities.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0edited, subtitled video<\/a>\u00a0of his run-in at SFO is fantastically infuriating. The TSA and its private contractors are vindictive, lawless, brutal. But Sai is an inspiring example of calm under fire, a guy who knows his rights back and forwards, and doesn\u2019t let the fact that his physical condition is deteriorating \u2014 you can see his tremors \u2014 make him lose his cool<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I\u2019m lucky, in that most of the TSA people I encounter are relatively pleasant and professional \u2026 clearly, not all of them are, though, and that\u2019s a big problem.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

People who know me well also know that I tend to be very outspoken about the things I believe in strongly. One of those things is learning to exorcize the law for your benefit. Don’t be a coward, roll over and pull the wool tighter over your eyes and hope that the problem will miraculously go away, cause guess what, it won’t. It will still be there when you relax your grip. This guy though, Sai is just a shining example of what I have been trying to tell people for years. Stop being Sheeple! <\/soap_box><\/span><\/h5>\n

Check out http:\/\/saizai.com\/tsa<\/a> for more info.
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TSA routinely violates own rules and the law to discriminate against people w\/disabilities wilwheaton: wilwheaton: Sai has \u201ca neurological disorder that causes episodic muteness and muscle spasms\u201d \u2014 basically, he sometimes becomes mute and gets bad tremors. His doctor has advised him to sip juice continuously, and this helps control his condition. TSA rules allow […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2408,"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673\/revisions\/2408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.grunk.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}