Originally Posted by GlowBoy

I haven't flown in some time, certainly not since this recent escalation of hostilities towards the flying public by the TSA. So I have a few questions.

The TSA screeners order you not touch your property while they are screening it. It's your property, you brought it in with you so what happens if you touch it?

If you’re told to stand somewhere where you cannot see your property, why can't you move to where you can?

What if you keep your cash or credit cards in your pocket? The metal detector won't alarm and your cash is safe.

If you refuse the scanners and the screener feels the cash during the pat down, what happens to it then? They might make a big fuss over it, which would make you less likely to be robbed by one of them.

In reading the posts here, it seems that the screeners like to push the limits of their authority. If you comply, they win and their authority expands. If you challenge them and they don't have the authority in the first place, aren't they restrained?

The TSA seems to be the only government agency that deals with the public that does not have to disclose what their policies and procedures are. From reading the FT posts here, the screeners seem to believe that they can create arbitrary absolutes regarding anything with no accountability.

It seems as if they are permitted anything that they can get away with.