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.
It is not a violation of anyone's rights for a TSO/BDO to ask you questions which are "general in nature" as if in fact a BDO, is is their job to ask simple non-invasive questions and to "try and trick you up". However, it is also within my rights not to answer them and by doing so and/or asking the TSO if they are a BDO, I am not interfering with the screening process