Originally Posted by
Cartoon Peril
In this particular case, you had a mother with two boys, aged maybe 9 and 11. She really was not in any position to defy the pretense of authority. The situation must have been extremely intimidating and she would have felt she had no choice but to comply. I'm sure her main goal was to get out of that station with her boys.
And that's the TSAs goal - to get everyone to comply, no matter how stupid and/or ridiculous their demands may be.
There's not one TSA employee left with any intelligence and/or empathy. All of those left before November. The ones remaining are either so deluded that they believe they're making a difference in the name of "security," or they have absolutely no problem with groping people to get a paycheck.