Originally Posted by
Often1
BTW - All OP managed to do here is not teach anybody a lesson, just cost taxpayers (you & I) more money.
I didn't realize that if we assert our rights and call authority out on their rules that we a) need to teach someone a lesson and b) not cost the taxpayers money.
Or is it allowed to cost tax dollars if it teaches a lesson? And who is to say that a lesson wasn't learned by that particular group of TSA employees?
Well, this taxpayer is going to cost us both some more money in October when I return from CDG. I refuse to go through a screening that I'm in no way, shape or form required to submit. I do not have a connecting flight and I'm not going to be manhandled and molested as usual by the TSA for simply wanting to go catch the shuttle to my car. The TSA or police can get off their duffs and escort me outside the screening area. That is the service I believe my payment of my tax dollars and 9/11 air ticket fees provides me. If you want to voluntarily submit to a search, hey, it's your tax dollars. My tax dollars say I'd just as soon have them just provide the escort to the landside instead of being lazy jerks.
ETA: I am not giving up either my French wine or my gin from The Netherlands. Since I am not flying again, this shouldn't have been a problem. But if required to undergo an unnecessary screening, they'll be taking my liquids away, won't they? I don't think so. Just give me my escort out because I'm not throwing away my souvenirs.