Originally Posted by
doober
The above is one of the most despicable posts I have ever read here.
Reality is often difficult to absorb, so I understand your comment, completely.
Originally Posted by
doober
Did you ever respond to FliesWay2Much when he asked about your security clearance? No, I didn't think so.
He has no “Need to Know”. If you had a security clearance you would understand the meaning of the phrase.
Originally Posted by
TsaAbuseWatch
Ask yourself. How has your relationship with passengers changed in the last year?
Not one bit. I am just as friendly to them as they have always been to me. Each “relationship” last on the average about 15 seconds. That also has not changed.
Originally Posted by
T-the-B
We now know that the shoe clerks assurances were worthless. Why should I believe the TSA clerks' assurances today? TSA employees, as a general rule, don't even come up to the level of a 1950's shoe clerk in terms of knowledge, training and professionalism.
Its not the TSO’s who are telling you this, it is the nationally recognized experts in the field that are. Yet folks here refuse to believe them because of some half-baked agenda. People are going to believe what they wish to believe, regardless of the facts.
Originally Posted by
mikeef
For the line people, I call it the 10/80/10 rule. 10% of the people are above and beyond, 80% are just trying to get through the day like any of us and 10% are miserable SOBs who want to make everyone else miserable. I'm not saying that proper leadership would change those ratios, but it could take everyone up a few notches and make sure that the bottom 10% is moved out.
Well said. ^
Originally Posted by
cestmoi123
After Oklahoma City and Fort Hood, you could make a statistical case that active and retired military are MORE likely to commit acts of terrorism than the population as a whole.
An interesting point. ^
Originally Posted by
LuvAirFrance
A priori? Why? Some sort of hope that uniforms only go to the worthy?
Worthy? No. But that person, by wearing the uniform and performing their assigned duties has shown a willingness to put their own personal life on the line for the citizens of this nation, and do so in a very public manner. Before entering the military they are given background checks, much is known about them, and then they are given positions of trust and usually prove that that trust is well placed. But even the military misses things, as Major Hasan has shown us, so we screen active duty military even in uniform. Maybe not to the extent that we do the standard passenger, but then again by their service they are proving that they can be trusted.
Originally Posted by
barbell
Oh, brother.
If you choose to ignore dissenting voice, then you really have no clue what's going on around you. That's too bad.
He and I are two of the dissenting voices in this forum and we are ignored or marginalized constantly. Could not the same thing be said for
those who post here and are of the same mind as yourself?