Originally Posted by chollie

Ha!

Years ago, I planned a birthday surprise for my niece. I packed her bag and everyone but her knew what was going on. She thought I was taking her school the next morning and was snoozing in the back seat until we got to the airport, and even then, I didn't let her know what was up until we were actually at the gate.

I was flying her to Disneyland for a surprise blow-out birthday weekend.

If the TSOs were insisting on interrogating kids, they might have ruined our entire trip. She wasn't flying with a parent, we don't share the same last name and she was in 6th grade, no school ID - and she didn't have a clue where she was going, why or for how long.

I trust a TSO around my kid far less than I do cops or teachers.

Kids don't see cops and teachers groping adults between the legs, rubbing their buttocks or sticking their hands inside clothing. They would know something was off if a cop or teacher tried to tell them it was OK.

OTOH, kids do see TSOs fondling their parents, publicly touching them in ways that the parents probably don't even touch each other in front of their kids in the privacy of their own home. They see their parents submit without protest or for fear of consequences. They are terribly at risk from any TSA predator precisely because if a TSO tells them groping is OK, they've see their own parents submit to it - in public, no less.

Those same kids would get suspended from school, if not expelled, if they were caught playing TSA grope-down on the playground.