Originally Posted by
eyecue
There are physical limitations at the CP that cannot be overcome. This is one example of it.
A typical response by you Eyecue, would not have expected anything more.
That’s the TSA’s problem, not the “fares” problem, the website clearly states the right to keep our possessions in sight at all times. If it is not possible at all times, then the website should be more specific and state “if possible”
Since the TSA’s policy is clearly printed, then the TSA must adhere to their policy, but we all know that TSA supervisors make up their own rules at each checkpoint at the spur of the moment and then threaten arrest and hide behind SSI when questioned.
The supervisors will do the same thing that they did to Stacy Amato at PHX, when she had a copy of the TSA policy about screening of her pumped breast milk, the suits there totally ignored it and made up their own policy. It took a higher level manager there who shadowed her the following week to force the suits to back off and follow proper procedure when the suits tried to do the same thing again to her.
Also to comment on your original statement about intentionally causing interference, an LEO is highly trained to observe and report on what they see and typically their testimony, which is almost always challenged in court by the defendant’s lawyers is mostly accepted. What training does a typical TSO get, 20 hours of watching videos and 20 hours of on the job training, I would not call a TSO highly trained.
In due time, some of these interference charges are going to make their way thru the courts, and any good defense lawyer will destroy the testimony of any TSO. All they have to do is subpoena the training records and show how little training the TSO’s get.
But this will never happen because the TSA will never release these records and I am sure they will drop the charges to prevent any TSO from appearing in court, and also to prevent any court rulings against the TSA, which will then set precedence. All that is needed is one liberal judge in one Federal Court to rule against the TSA and that can open the floodgates for others to fight their charges against the TSA.
Mr. Elliott