Originally Posted by nachtnebel

I agree with you, but from the other side of the fence. I simply cannot understand how people who seem well intentioned, intelligent, are reasonably (such as yourself) to excellently restrained (gsoltso comes to mind) in their interchanges even on these occasionally inflammatory forums, everything you'd want in a TSA screener, I simply cannot understand how persons of this type think it anything other than reprehensible to force the current choice upon people to be strip searched or felt over the way they are, with intimate carressing type contact of buttocks, sex organs and hair on those persons, many of whom have an emotional reaction close to being raped.

Because these TSA people close their minds to this reality, to this real damage they do to people, IMO, I cannot respect them. I would like to, because they seem otherwise eminently respectable.

This is not a political debate where things are murky and the right way to proceed cannot be expected to be agreed upon by everyone. This is a real and continuing damage being inflicting on young women, boys, and adults who simply want to travel in peace.