Originally Posted by Cartoon Peril

When I first flew after 9/11, I was glad to see a much higher level of thoroughness in the screening. Later, when the shoe carnival came along, I tolerated it, and I didn't even complain too much when I was randomly selected to be frisked by some idiot white-shirt at SFO.

For a long time I felt that critics of TSA were overreacting, and to some extent I think some of the objections are taken too far. I tried to be objective about all of this. But I have to draw the line somewhere.

Some of the posts here today and yesterday are really bad. There has been a constant theme about single woman being targeted and groped. There are reports of a 13 year-old girl being groped, women on the air-side of security being groped (having previously cleared security), the disabled being groped.

I have decided that in lieu of Transportation Security Officer, I have decided that every government employee or government contractor employee who lays a hand on any passenger without probable cause will henceforth be called by me a "criminal." Additionally, any touching of any passenger without probable cause will be called by me a "grope".