Originally Posted by
Dovster
But...but...that is not how the TS/S Forum works.
Here, the posters get to use all kinds of insults about the TSA, ranging from the mild "idiots" to the more vile "perverts", but as long as they are venting their spleens because they were required to walk through a metal detector that is perfectly acceptable.
As a TSA employee, you are expected not to wipe off the crap that is dumped on your head in TS/S but instead to ask for more. You certainly are not allowed to brand a remark as "stupid" -- even when it is incredibly so.
Yes, I have had some minor problems with the TSA -- anyone who travels enough has -- but I have also had problems with other government agencies, department stores, educational institutions, hotels, and journalists. That is life -- nobody ever promised that everything in life will go just the way that we would like it.
Children learn that. Adults know that. Those adults who were incapable of learning it go to bulletin boards and complain, over and over and over again, giving themselves the excellent opportunity of showing how "superior" they are.
Funny, I thought I had heard you making the bolded complaint previously.
You seem to believe, and capably express that belief (albeit it in a haughty, superior manner) that TSA and its policies as they currently exist are unworthy of exasperation.
My perspective is that you're woefully incorrect, and might be more sensitive to how damaging the oafish behavior of the TSA at all levels is to the freedoms and liberty we used to have in the USA.
Would I lower myself to lecturing you about narrow perspective or immaturity because I hold different things dear than you do? Um, no, I don't think anyone on this board has the right to castigate others for their beliefs. Attack a factually incorrect statement I made, and we're in a totally different area.
Will I continue to remind a TSA spokesweenie/blogger that he has yet to retract a patently wrong statement, delivered with absolute wrong-headed certainty, at the risk of being dismissed as venting my spleen? Absolutely. Get used to it.