Originally Posted by
N642KM
Wow - I think most of the people posting to this forum have their tinfoil hats on too tight! I've been reading through the posts here on FT and they range from intentionally making TSOs late for work by blocking train doors to suggesting TSOs and their families should be killed. Are you people really that angry because you have to take your shoes off or might have to be subject to a pat-down?
Did you actually read the first post in this thread? Or the second one? You think making people WHO CAN'T WALK get out of their wheelchairs is an "inconvenience"?
Originally Posted by
N642KM
Seriously? I can understand not agreeing with TSA policies, but to single out a person just because he or she works for the TSA, particularly if that person has no role in the policy making, is ignorant.
There have been numerous incidents in just the past few months that were documented by video, acknowledged by TSA management, but basically the HQ people who make the policy said "not our problem - the people at the checkpoint did it wrong." So yes, we criticize the people at the checkpoint who (frequently) get it wrong.
Originally Posted by
N642KM
Thanks to all the levels of security - yes, even TSA, the horrors of what happened on 9-11 is far from our short memories because it has not happened again. We have put it out of our minds and forgot how we all felt that day - and how we felt on our first flight after. Nothing has changed. Our enemies are watching and waiting for us to drop our guard - and complaining about the inconveniences of security is the first step. I wonder what the passengers on the 3 downed flights on 9-11 would say about the inconveniences of security?
Everything has changed - at least, the things that matter. The cockpit doors are locked. Flight crew are under instruction not to cooperate with hijackers. Passengers beat the snot out of anyone who acts up. Those three things alone guarantee that 9/11 will never happen again, and TSA has NOTHING to do with any of that.
In the meantime, TSA is missing upwards of 70% of weapons in Red Team tests, and abusing wheelchair passengers and humiliating survivors of breast cancer.