Originally Posted by
TheGolfWidow
I don't care who you are or what your job is - pastor, dentist, screener -- if you walk up to a stranger's child and touch them without first interacting with a parent who is standing.right.there, you are engaged in risky behavior.
And, this situation is complicated by the fact that the screener is easily perceived by the child as a true authority figure, to which he might turn for help in a crisis.
and only in your paranoia do you believe that every TSA employee is the devil.
TSA employees have the socio-economic background as the rest of society (including law enforcement and FT'ers.) There are some upstanding citizens and there are some creeps. I've found that the "holier than thou" crowd (very prominent here on FT) often falls into the creep category.