Originally Posted by DMorris
... my path crosses people like that in many areas of life; state troopers when speeding, conference room showdowns, drivers in NJ, etc. It is just life, deal with it.
BTW, a box cutter took down the WTC.
"state troopers when speeding"...not that it's o.k. for them to be on a power trip, but if you get picked up for speeding, you've already broken a law.
I'm a NJ driver and I know that some are on power trips - but they aren't doing anything to you other than maybe honking their horn or giving you the finger. They are not treating you as if you were a criminal. They are not searching through your baggage, making you stand in barefeet, running their hands up and down your body. Neither does that happen in "conference room showdowns".
Taking your place in a security line such as at EWR or MCO does not give screeners, who are not law enforcement personnel, the right to treat individuals as criminals.
As I believe I stated in another thread, the attitude at EWR probably comes from the top down, i.e., Dewey Fong, FSD.
It's my belief that people who allow themselves to be bullied by TSA agents perhaps don't have too much self-respect. No one should stand for the treatment the OP received.
I saw smoke and flames, and not on TV, from the towers on 9/11; I know people who died that day; I am not afraid of terrorists. I don't want to be made to feel like a potential terrorist and no one else should either. Do you honestly feel that 9/11 and Richard Reid are justification for this horrendous governmental waste of money called the TSA?
I do not believe that as a whole the TSA actions really make the flying public safer, it is only to make us feel safer.
Do you feel safer? I don't think you do. And if you don't, then why are you giving tacit support to the TSA by saying "it's life, deal with it"?