Spiff, you are probably speaking to the choir. We are explaining the procedures, we may not and probably do not agree with them.
Please understand the TSA people on FlyerTalk are front-line personnel who do not create policy. These people, including myself are trying to feed our families and are insulted by you questioning our patriotism and common sense. I know you are trying to start an argument and I ask my fellow TSA personnel to refrain from replying to these comments and report them to the FlyerTalk Administrator.
Thank you.
Originally Posted by Spiff
Thanks for the clarification, Bart.
However, I object most strongly to:
"2. If you're wearing shoes that meet a certain criteria for the type of screening I mentioned above, then whether or not they have steel shanks inside them isn't the issue. If you're wearing them when you enter the WTMD, you will be directed for secondary screening even if you don't alarm."
There are NO credible "criteria" for shoes. Any amount of explosive material that can be hidden in a shoe that meets the "criteria" can easily be hidden in or on a person. Continuing to use these stupid "criteria" amounts to criminal negligence on the part of those who mandate them as they are nothing but passenger harassement that takes away resources that could instead be used for real security.
Moreover, in addition to screening the shoes of a person who does not alarm, that person is hand-wanded. This is blatant harassment. Shoes were the criteria for the WTMD, the person does not alarm at the WTMD, but they are hand wanded. Plain and simple harassment.
I think that the TSA's management are nothing less than treasonous ...-clowns for this and other idiotic mandates. FSDs who interpret these "criteria" to mean any/all shoes are also treasonous ...-clowns. I question the patriotism and common sense of screeners who continue to work for treasonous ...-clowns such as these.