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Old Mar 8, 2011 | 5:31 pm
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Cartoon Peril
 
Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 389
TSA creates the fear, and this hurts security

Originally Posted by NC_Girl
I am taking my sister and niece to Boston for the weekend and it will be my niece's first time flying. She is quite excited but my sister is a VERY nervous flyer and I want to make the experience as easy as possible for my niece and hope my sister's fears don't transfer over to her....
Again, I keep raising the point: TSA by instilling fear in passengers who ARE the last line of defense, TSA demoralizes and degrades them which makes security worse, not better. Don't listen to any nonsense about TSOs being the last line of defense; passengers are and this is according to TSA's own charts:

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