Originally Posted by
TMOliver
Either youall or yo'baggage must be purdy dern suspicious looking.
In the lifetime of the TSA, on all my air travels including semi-frequent domestic jaunts and a handful of TATLs, I've don't remember a TSAer even glancing at a book I was carrying (and I don't leave home without 1,2,3 or more, a voracious reader). In the trio of checked bag searches of which I've been aware, none of the books seemed to have been shifted or removed, and although the TSA don't seem well-trained packers, I know of nought which has been purloined from my impedimenta.
Several times while flying through ATL and PHX, the TSA checkpoint screeners went through my camera bag, removing front and rear lens caps and poking their grubby fingers at the glass. To what end I do not know - but I do know that I had to clean all of my lenses as a result.
And that was with a carry-on, right in front of me, with me arguing with them over the sheer stupidity of what they were doing.
I can only imagine what havoc goes on downstairs out of the public eye.
Originally Posted by
TMOliver
While I feel that the TSA's efforts are largely ineffective in combating the "enemy" which it was built to fight, and a threat to civil liberties through both actions and ineptitude, I really don't grasp the growing perception that TSAers are warped sexual deviants or possess a level of criminality any different from that of the general public (or maybe even FTers).
I guess that's one difference - I feel the TSA's efforts are wholly ineffective, and that the only employees they have at the moment are the ones who enjoy groping people's genitals and sniffing their underwear, or otherwise exercising their bogus "authority" in an attempt at revenge over being bullied in grade school and never being allowed to be the hall monitor.