Originally Posted by 90minfromJFK-CDG

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As an outsider to this particular forum and a long time lurker (13+ months) before joining and posting I always find these issues to most interesting ones to dissect. While I certainly agree that the OP was mistreated and should correspond with whatever officials necessary to make sure that such instances are reduced, to suggest that the TSA as a whole seeks to undermine the rights of individuals is at best preposterous and at worse dangerous. As a liberal myself, I very much appreciate the fervor with which many on this board protect the inherent rights of man to privacy and the like but we must remember the global environment that we live in. To suggest that our democratically elected government instituted a program specifically intended to abridge our rights accomplishes the tasks that the terrorists could not achieve: it breaks the american spirit.

So, continue to compel the TSA to refine its tasks in order to facilitate "safety" but dont take the actions of a few foolish agents as representative of the attitudes of greater society.

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