Originally Posted by
cottonmather0
If it were an honorable honest job - like, I don't know, milking cows or working on a garbage truck - then yeah, they deserve to be treated with respect. Working for TSA is not honest work.
I'd sooner shake hands with a guy that worked one of those port-a-potty pumper trucks than a TSA employee.
That's honest work. Hard, dirty, absolutely necessary.
Originally Posted by
cottonmather0
An unfortunate consequence of Godwin's Law is that anyone who compares anything to Nazis nowadays is often dismissed as being overly dramatic and exaggerative, but the truth is, "just following orders" wasn't a legitimate excuse after World War II and "just doing their job" doesn't justify what TSA allows its agents to perpetrate on innocent Americans, either.
The ones that make me giggle are the TSA clerks who say, "Well, I think these policies are stupid too, but I can't change them."
Yes, you can. You can say, "These policies are stupid, and I refuse to implement them."
The only reasons the TSA has gotten so far in violating passengers is that 1) the passengers haven't complained enough, and 2) there are still people willing to violate their fellow citizens for a mess of pottage.