Let's Welcome the New TSA Administrator...
Aug 12, 2017, 11:27 am
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Let's Welcome the New TSA Administrator...
... as only we can. For starters, here's my Propaganda Village entry in case it's censored:
Administrator Pekoske,
In order for you to be an effective public servant, I suggest you take the following steps in order to fully understand how you regulate the public you serve and how your employees treat those members of the public:
1. Submit to a full "pat down" every time you fly commercially.
2. Have a checked bag ripped open, ransacked, and a liquid left open to spill all over your suits.
3. Be interrogated by a behavior detection officer.
4. Have a carry-on bag searched out of your sight and discover something really expensive missing.
5. Watch as a female family member is given a "pat down."
6. Watch your employees bring a young mother to tears when her breast milk is confiscated.
7. Watch your employees humiliate a handicapped person and their family.
8. Document instances of "screener discretion."
9. Try to get an answer from @AskTSA that isn't downright insulting.
10. Have the guts to call a "pat down" what it really is and that your employees do, in fact, search human genitals and, on occasion, penetrate a woman's body.
If you have the guts to do all of these things, and more that others may suggest, I trust you will be just as disgusted about the TSA as many of the public already is. The difference is that you can do something about it. We'll be watching and we aren't at all reluctant to provide feedback.
FYI, you might check with the DHS IG concerning the amount of complaints about comments being censored and people being blocked by your employees on official government social media sites.
In order for you to be an effective public servant, I suggest you take the following steps in order to fully understand how you regulate the public you serve and how your employees treat those members of the public:
1. Submit to a full "pat down" every time you fly commercially.
2. Have a checked bag ripped open, ransacked, and a liquid left open to spill all over your suits.
3. Be interrogated by a behavior detection officer.
4. Have a carry-on bag searched out of your sight and discover something really expensive missing.
5. Watch as a female family member is given a "pat down."
6. Watch your employees bring a young mother to tears when her breast milk is confiscated.
7. Watch your employees humiliate a handicapped person and their family.
8. Document instances of "screener discretion."
9. Try to get an answer from @AskTSA that isn't downright insulting.
10. Have the guts to call a "pat down" what it really is and that your employees do, in fact, search human genitals and, on occasion, penetrate a woman's body.
If you have the guts to do all of these things, and more that others may suggest, I trust you will be just as disgusted about the TSA as many of the public already is. The difference is that you can do something about it. We'll be watching and we aren't at all reluctant to provide feedback.
FYI, you might check with the DHS IG concerning the amount of complaints about comments being censored and people being blocked by your employees on official government social media sites.
Aug 12, 2017, 12:30 pm
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I would add that he gets the same PreCheck experience as everyone else - including waiting in the regular line if PreCheck is closed.
Last edited by chollie; Aug 12, 2017 at 12:46 pm
Aug 18, 2017, 10:38 pm
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Aug 19, 2017, 7:22 am
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Nickname Contest!!!
I almost forgot! Let the games begin and the winner will be decided by cyber-acclamation.
Past winners include:
Pissy
Kippie
Skeletor
Village Idiot
My entries for starters:
Peskie
Peckie
Pecker (Related, of course, to the British slang expression for "chin"
)
Past winners include:
Pissy
Kippie
Skeletor
Village Idiot
My entries for starters:
Peskie
Peckie
Pecker (Related, of course, to the British slang expression for "chin"
)
Aug 19, 2017, 7:38 am
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None of those suggestions connotate the level of disgust I have for his organization. Working on a suggestion but he hasn't shown his colors just yet.
Aug 20, 2017, 9:32 am
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Personally, I will postpone welcoming the new boss until he makes two changes:
1) medical nitro tabs are no longer subject to 'screener discretion'
and
2) no more punitive genital frisks for pax who are physically incapable of assuming and holding the position in the NoS.
The rest of the world manages aviation security without doing these things - with a lot fewer resources than TSA. If Pesky can't do it, then I have no respect for him. He'll just be another in a long line of losers.
Supposedly 20% of TSOs are ex-military, yet when we get someone leading TSA with a military background, instead of whipping the other 80% of TSOs into shape and imposing military discipline and order on the organization, he tries to whip the pax into shape, treating them like a bunch of raw recruits at boot camp.
1) medical nitro tabs are no longer subject to 'screener discretion'
and
2) no more punitive genital frisks for pax who are physically incapable of assuming and holding the position in the NoS.
The rest of the world manages aviation security without doing these things - with a lot fewer resources than TSA. If Pesky can't do it, then I have no respect for him. He'll just be another in a long line of losers.
Supposedly 20% of TSOs are ex-military, yet when we get someone leading TSA with a military background, instead of whipping the other 80% of TSOs into shape and imposing military discipline and order on the organization, he tries to whip the pax into shape, treating them like a bunch of raw recruits at boot camp.
Last edited by chollie; Aug 20, 2017 at 9:56 am