Originally Posted by
SATTSO
But isn't there more to it than what you say? Why give TSA that much control over your life? Ok, you fly because you have to. But what if you wish to go somewhere for personal reason, but refuse to go because you refuse to fly? It jsut seems to me that those who decide not to fly have in fact inadvertantly give TSA a good deal of control over a specific part of their life.
If it was me and I despised TSA and it's policies and how it treated people (which isn't me
) , i believe my personal form of protest would be to go where I want to go and enjoy myself in spite of TSA to spite TSA. I would NEVER give up that much control of my one and only life to someone else.
But this is just my opinion.
Hmmm, there's been a couple times I've considered quitting my job and taking a significant cut in pay to avoid both TSA and TSOs. The
only reason I fly is for business purposes.
I've been through TSA's security process since day one, been patted down at the checkpoint, gate, and gate again at another airport because of the SSSS on the boarding pass (short time frame flying) and more. Funny thing is that I've worked on board the EC-135 (Looking Glass), E4B flying command post, etc. and had less difficulty getting on board those aircraft(think of signs up authorizing use of deadly force) than I've had trying to fly with belongings and dignity intact for business. That shouldn't be the case.
SATTSO, you talk a good talk about not surrendering to TSA, but if every time you flew you encountered a new outrage from a government agency whose purported purpose was to keep you safe, wouldn't you grow tired of dealing with it for every trip? That's where many of us are today. We're tired of the screamers, the TSOs who don't know their job (not knowing the SOP IMHO is the same as not knowing their job), being lied to when we quote TSA's own web site (web site is wrong-all other airports do it wrong, we're right-shoes on the belt is the policy).
Your agency is broken and doesn't respond to
valid traveler's complaints. When it does respond often it is with a very condescending attitude. We don't want insult being added to injury when we complain and often that is the case. We've told/asked/begged/pleaded for something to get done and we, the citizens and guests (non citizens) get ignored at every turn. FIX YOUR AGENCY.