Originally Posted by Bart
Comments about "papers please" and "jackbooted thugs." This is ridiculous. Many screeners are military veterans or former law enforcement officers who have, at one point or another, truly laid it on the line. To question our dedication to this nation in such a manner and call it "dialogue" is insulting.
I think the "papers please" comments (which aren't
that frequent) are aimed more at the DHS/TSA and general administration policy and fallacy that ID=security; and only at those individual screeners who make a BFD of it. Most don't and it's usually the
airport/airline checkers who do.
I have and will continue to refer to screeners who routinely employ bullying as "thugs". It's the least offensive term of several I could apply. I don't reacll the "jackbooted" epithet being used with any regularity here.
No-one questions the dedication of military personnel. Law enforcement officers are a different matter depending on one's own prior experiences. Regardless, former occupations are
not relevant to what you do as a TSA screener; it ain't the same job.