Originally Posted by
halls120
^^ I'll second this observation. There are TSA employees here that are worse than the OP, but there is at least one who posts sanely and without malice, and is the rare effective advocate for TSA on this board.
+1. And there is one here that comes across with such an authoritarian attitude that it seems like all travelers are nothing better than prisoners that have lost constitutional rights.
Originally Posted by
MAMOHT
Sadly, OP just confirmed that the people at checkpoints (btw, the word itself is really hideous) take what happens there as a norm. The norm now is that each and everyone air passenger has to be considered a criminal and treated as such. I do not see anything refreshing in that view. All the OP has expressed is just his view on how to make this norm to look a bit nicer. Smoke in mirrors.
Agree.
My laptop wallpaper is a photo of me taken on my first flight at age 7. It was taken on the ramp at DCA of me boarding a DC6. That inspired me to travel, see new sights, and enjoy not only the learning about different cultures but also the joy of traveling.
Unfortunately, the TSA has done far more to destroy the virtues and fun of traveling than anything else.