<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by supervision_tsa:
The ones who complain the most about secondary screening or, for that fact, any type of screening would be the first to complain that TSA was not doing their job, in the event of a terrorist attack. If you want to be safe, you must give up some conveniences. Terrorists are now using children to accomplish their goals so please stop complaining about that extra minute or two that you spend on screening. If you'll notice, it's the airline ticket counters that hold you up and not the screening process. Register your complaints with the airlines.</font>
Bull.... .. in fact I don't even have to use airline ticket counters the majority of the time thanks to on-line check-in, kiosk check-in, etc. The only time I use the ticket counter is when I check luggage, which takes a couple minutes at most because I'm already checked in, I have my boarding pass, and it takes just a matter of seconds to print a routing label and provide me with a claim check.
The time I spend dealing with the TSA is significant compared to what little time I have to deal with an airline ticket counter, if any. At least the airlines and ticket counter agents treat me with courtesy as a customer and don't yell at me, verbally degrade me, or harass me like
some TSA agents do.
As far as the TSA, it's a friggin multi-bilion dollar taxpayer joke. Many of the policies (plus policies the TSA is wanting to push over on us, i.e. CAPPS II) are UN-AMERICAN and blantant invasions of privacy. The TSA is not only a disgusting waste of money and resources, but an un-American government organization with no respect for passenger privacy.
Face it, there are risks in this world. The TSA needs to be focusing on real security threats and not pointy objects, unnecessary shoe searches, and passenger harassment (i.e. checking ID's 4 times within 20 ft at the checkpoint) to make people "feel good and safe".
FWIW, I've been doing a lot of travel in Europe lately and I must say it's a pleasure to travel there because I don't have to deal with the TSA. At the same time, security is professional, I can lock my baggage, and as a passenger I'm not harassed.
If you want to give you your rights, freedoms, and privacy in order to "feel safe", I suggest you move to Cuba or perhaps North Korea -- or you could always set the clock back 40 years and move to the USSR as well I suppose.
SDF_Traveler
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