Originally Posted by myrgirl
You're right, I don't have a clue why she reacted the way she did. I am baffled as to why someone would get to the point where they are crying and afraid to take a job position all over a simple little something that hundreds of people do every single day. I do apologize for presuming.
We (both frequent pax and TSA screeners) may be prone to forgetting that not everyone is exposed to the current screening system on a regular basis enough to see it as "normal."
If I did not fly on a regular basis, follow FT, pay attention to aviation news, etc., and some random security guard somewhere (courthouse, sporting event, whatever) decided to pat me down because I refused to undress for them, I would feel like I was being treated like a criminal and be somewhat upset. And I'm not a very sensitive person. In fact, I would argue that most all Americans, if suddenly fastforwarded from 1990s airport screening to today's patdown procedures, would be upset and feel violated.
What is very sad is that my future children will probably think nothing of full-body patdowns to enter public venues and of being made to undress to prove they are not a bad guy. The terrorists are winning, and instead of killing them and their supporers indiscriminately in their homelands and focusing on the groups that actually commit the terrorists acts (which would admittedly be treating some people like crap), we are treating everyone like crap in the name of "equality."
