Originally Posted by hb1
What do you do for a living? Would you mind if I came to your worksite to harass you for personal pleasure? Is there a time when I could come so that my harassment would not only bother you, but also inconvenience others waiting to use your company's service?
Seriously, I understand why people dislike the TSA, but there is a fine line between standing up for yourself (e.g., asking screeners to substitute clean gloves for dirty gloves) and being petty (e.g., asking for special non-latex gloves that you don't need).
It's civil disobedience, and I will do it every chance I get. I'm deriving zero personal pleasure and I'm not standing up for myself. I believe I'm standing up for the Constitution and for your right to think & write that I'm a complete jerk. I regret you have such a narrow view of protest and its essentiality in a democracy.
I was in ROTC on a US college campus in the early 1970s and have been on the receiving end of harassment. I know all about being a "symbol."