Originally Posted by
USMCSS
Please understand; I get it that TSA has a lot of procedures implemented that need to be changed. I get it that a lot of their SOP is ridiculous. Some people on here are complaining about things that are trivial, and some of the complaints are ignorant, that is the point I was trying to make. I was also trying to point out that not all of the TSO’s are bad.
And by no means do I claim to be an expert traveler. Studentff made a lot of great points and I agree with all of them; they are things that should be complained about; my post was to have people think about what they are complaining about before they do.
Bob:
I could give you a detailed, multi-paged analysis of people's negative, unforgiving attitudes towards the TSA -- their policies, their procedures, their attitudes and their employees -- and why I think they are justified.
Instead, I'll simply point out that people on this board come into contact with agents working for dozens, or even hundreds, of air travel security agencies around the world in the course of their travels. Yet 99% of the complaints are about one agency -- the TSA. The examples provided by other agencies prove that not only is it possible to provide security without being petty, harassing or intimidating, it apparently isn't even that difficult, since just about every other agency in the world seems to have managed it without a huge amount of difficulty. So when you go off on a trip to 2, 3, 4, 5 countries, and your experience in one of those countries is markedly worse than all the others, why would you think anything but negatively about the TSA?