Originally Posted by
cbn42
I know it's sacrilegious to defend the TSA on here, but OP mentioned 3 things that the TSO in question was doing:
1. asking pax if they had any questions about the screening process
2. asking conversational questions like "are you going to Disneyland?"
3. talking about how his son was just finishing a posting to a USAF base.
Which one of these three is a violation of your rights, and how?
The TSA does plenty of things that legitimately deserve criticism, but sometimes I think that people on FT have an automatic reflex that immediately criticizes anything they do. I could post a message on here saying "Today I saw a TSO chewing gum" and immediately people would claim a violation of their constitutional rights and waste of taxpayer money.
Ron suggested that the guy was a BDscreening clerk. That whole process is violation of constitutional rights and a waste of taxpayer money. If he wasn't a screening clerk, it's a waste of taxpayer money.
It is not true that you could say that you saw a screening clerk chewing gum and people would claim a violation of their constitutional rights and a waste of taxpayer money. We criticize the TSA because of what it does, not because we have a reflexive hatred of it.