Originally Posted by FWAAA
Forced?
Increasingly, I will criticize those who CHOOSE to carry them out, as I'm not aware of any TSA employees who are compelled to work there.
People who violate other people (in what you admit are un-American ways) so that they can collect an above-market paycheck are increasingly hard for me to separate from the un-American leaders for whom they toil.
YMMV.
Sure it's un-American to fondle and grope the way we now do, but like any job, somebody's gotta do it, and it might as well be me, especially since the pay is so much better than it was before the TSA was created.
Sorry, I don't buy it, and I predict that fewer and fewer Americans will buy it either.
I completely understand your sentiments but I think you're taking it a bit far. We are all making compromises (at least the vast majority of us are) in regards to our principles versus the various realities of our jobs. I personally have made such sacrifices. (I have stood by and done little with the exception of writing letters to the editor and to my Congressional representatives, and made political contributions, while my government illegally tortured and illegally held without any due process over 600 people [we think] at Guantanamo Bay. I could have done more.)
Some people took these screener jobs thinking they were doing a service to the public after 9/11. They have stayed because these jobs are decent jobs with good benefits. Many of them disagree with the policies. Should we insist that they all quit and jeopardize their families' well being? Most of us are making a similar value-judgment that the screeners are when we agree to taking off our shoes or going through a feel-up secondary search beause we simply MUST make it to that important meeting. Why shouldn't we be following our principles and get arrested rather than make that meeting?