Originally Posted by GoingAway
These days? I don't talk to them if I don't have to. They are doing a job and I appreciate that but I disagree with how its being executed - not their fault but its supposed to be their business.
The environment and culture that has been created by TSA and within the current government inhibits anyone from saying anything for fear or arrest or retribution. The feeling among many, some of whom have experienced the other side of it, is if you breath the wrong way they have the
"right" to arrest you, and geez if you were to breathe they missed X or Y - you'd be the one getting the secondary. Why bother?
Why is that word in quotes? because its not a "right" as defined previously in our country or is any way reflective of what this country has been about in the past, you know freedom of speech, expression with rights of personal privacy and protection. That is sad but that is a FACT and that's what the current administration has wrought.
and just damn SAD!
I do sympathize and agree with most of your last paragraph. Hopefully there are others in TSA besides Bart and crew who read these posts and take the good ideas and use them. When the current bans started, I couldn't help but think it was to placate the average person travelling. Safety and Security are one of the most basic and powerful human needs, and unfortunately, the average person does not see beyond the eye candy.
I would like to think, and this may be naive, that a letter or email to TSA or an airport manager informing them of a possible security problem would not go unheeded or uninvestigated.
But I too look forward to the day when a little bit of normal comes back to our airports.