Originally Posted by bambi47
I don't assume anything about anyone. I KNOW the TSA leaders are a bunch of incompetent ***holes, I work for them. But I believe that all people have the best intentions when they do something, that their not doing it for malicious reasons. Unlike a few people on here that think the government is "plotting" against them all the time. That everything we do is to harrass them and inconvenience them. I don't know what the leaders are thinking, but why can't you believe that the screeners are really trying to keep you a little bit safer? Why are we always just hassleing you? Why can't the screening process be just what it is? Why are we trying to take away your rights, intrude on your privacy? Honestly, I haven't met anyone that interesting that I want to know that much about them. I just want to make sure your not carrying anything your not supposed to. Do I think your a terrorist? Not really. But if you get something through security that you shouldn't have, your gonna make a big stink about that too.
Seriously, again, I extend my invitation to you to drive up the Jersey Turnpike and go through EWR. For even more amusement, wear flip-flops or some other non-profile shoes and see even more excitement!
This "random secondary" crap that Hawley is selling is a license for your colleagues to beat their "officer" chest with the sewn-on badges and dispense with more retaliatory secondaries (previosuly known as "continuous screening").
It's not some tinfoil hat thing Bambi, there really are some screeners who get their rocks off on putting someone into the pen.