Originally Posted by
chollie
In the interests of truthful and non-game-playing accuracy:
No one has to answer questions posed by a TSA employee - whether because of choice, inability to hear or inability to understand the language.
^ +1 Bolding it. Now, that's a start ... But, will we EVER get to see, post & distribute this in 150+ (whatever # per UN's major classifications by countries or nationalities spoken) to all travelers approaching all TSA checkpoints, including those manned by security "agents" at non-domestic airports doing secondary gate checks ?
I think I know the odds of that happening ... not likely to be done in English, Spanish, French, Italian, and Russian, etc.
Originally Posted by
exbayern
It may not result in 'punishment', but ... it result in shouting, raised voices, calling a supervisor, and other aggressive behaviour towards passengers.
For which "they" will defend, deny and cry foul, etc. as unfair accusations.
Originally Posted by
Marsden
Indeed: not least because many TSA agents at our gateways have limited command of English themselves.
Correction, that should read
all airports and gateways - that's my observation ... Of course, they probably can, should and could use various language line services - but they don't as they won't - because they continue to get away with it since they have the "discretion" to do as they see fit.