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Originally Posted by
SATTSO
Retalitory behavior, huh?
Yeah, huh.
Elsewhere:
Originally Posted by
pmocek
Unanswered questions from this thread for SATTSO:
- Why didn't you allow the man past your barricade?
- Did the man violate any rules? If so, which ones? Where can we read them?
- Did you bar the man from proceeding because he did not tell you his ID was misplaced or stolen?
- Do you think that his choosing not to show you what you wanted but were not entitled to see -- his identity credentials -- indicated that he would present a danger to other passengers on his flight?
- Did the fact that he did not utter the words "I lost it" indicate that he was dangerous?
- Had he -- metaphorically speaking -- bent over and kissed your feet, would you have continued to perform the procedure we pay you to perform instead of restricting the man's movement?
- You did not describe the man refusing to undergo the identity verification process TSA claims its staff use when people do not present identity credentials, only him refusing to present identity credentials. Does it seem from this statement that I read yours correctly?
- Was the man required to present those credentials to you in order to go on about his business?
- Did you retaliate by prohibiting the man from crossing your barricade simply because his stated reason for not presenting identity credentials was his desire not to do so?
- Had the situation been exactly the same, except for three words out of the man's mouth -- "I lost it" or "it was stolen" -- would you still have immediately infringed upon his right to travel?
- Was there any specific security threat or any unlawful behavior in that case?
- What, if anything, made you think this man was such a threat to transportation security that you should bar him from walking through the airport to the terminal from which he presumably arranged to be transported? Please don't reply by citing internal procedures you won't allow us to read, just tell us why you -- TSA -- felt it was appropriate to infringe upon that man's right to move from one place to another.