Originally Posted by
SATTSO
I wasn't ignoring it, I wasn't talking about it. In fact, up to this point I didn't think we were talking about whether or not TSA policy makes anyone more safe. The examples given to me by others only delt with rudeness, behavior that is not reflective if a professional organization, and unaccountability of TSA employees. I haven't yet argued one way or another on te effectiveness of TSA policy.
Then let me explain it very, very simply:
Nearly every single policy imposed by your agency is based on panic, stupidity, and lies.
Your agency's employees are the agents by which policies rooted in panic, stupidity, and lies are enforced.
It's difficult to be polite when one's job is enforcing policies rooted in panic, stupidity, and lies; indeed, such conditions help create an us-vs-them mentality, where us is the aforementioned agency of panic, stupidity, and lies, and them is innocent citizens seeking to travel by air. And the panic, stupidity, and lies discourage decent people from applying to work for TSA, so you get a lot of rude jerks as the public face of the agency.
Any attempt to figure out why Americans hate TSA that ignores the (at best) ineptitude and (at worst) corruption of the agency and its policies is going to come up as woefully short as yours does. We don't hate you just because you deal with security. We don't even hate you just because you deal with security and are in many cases rude jerks about it. We hate you because you're peddling panic, stupidity, and lies and telling us it's security, and you're often rude jerks about it.