Originally Posted by TSAMGR
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.
I'm sorry. I appreciate your and several of the other screeners' presence here. You do provide a great deal of useful information. I've seen you become much less confrontational (for the most part) since you started posting here and I will try to do the same.
Nevertheless, how can one continue to work in a job (not just this job but any job) where one is asked to do things that simply fly in the face of the principles upon which this country was founded? There's a need for security at airports. However certain airports' FSDs have chosen to go above and beyond reasonable security and have instituted policies that are truly un-American. I've given you all plenty of reasons why those policies are both un-American and completely ineffective from a security standpoint. If my boss forced me to do such things, I'd walk in a heartbeat.
I did not mean that I question anyone who works for the TSA's patriotism. I do think that if your FSD is one of those shoe fetishists or an implementer of other un-American policies that you need to do some soul-searching as to why you continue to work for such an individual.