Originally Posted by
halls120
LOL, you really ought to in public affairs.
In the same paragraph you first say:
And then you follow it with:
It's like saying your were against it before you were for it.
So you do not think it is possible to say the same thing differently? I would not believe you if you said you do not.
Have you never had to stress to someone what you mean by using stronger words? Of course you have; we all have. We have all at times used different words to say the same thing.
But I guess when TSA does it, or I say it, well, it's foolishness, huh?
But what it really comes down to is this: we all know that many TSOs are not the, uh, brightest, let us say.
i would agree. Some TSOs I have met are very intelligent, some struggle to outwit a door-knob. This would be true of any large organization with around 50k employees. Just being honest...
Some TSOs saw that it was written in SOP that if they came across large sums of cash we were to turn it over to a LEO to conduct the search. So some came to believe (as that idiot involved in the $4700 incident) that carrying large sums if cash was somehow illegal.
Personally, it surprises me that people would think so. It dumbfounds me that some believe so, thus I understand why it was not put in the original SOP that carrying cash was not illegal. Now it is put in the SOP that it is not illegal (I'm just being honest here, and yes I know I'm setting myself up for cheap shots from people like halls and BD and a few others - but, hey, you take 'em when you get 'em!
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So what i said holds: SOP was not changed, we still report large sums of cash to LEOs. So as I said before, no part of SOP has been struck down by any court.