Originally Posted by skchin
TSA is trying protect us from the terror threat. If OP really wanted to make his opinion known, he could have wrote his senator or congressman, filed a complaint against TSA... but no, he wrote his comment down to get a reaction from the TSA. It's like you telling your friend a nasty joke about his mother and trying to get his reaction. And then he complains about his friend's reaction. Grow up! OP's action in my opinion was very immature.
If Hawley was the TSO's father, I might understand the reaction (and your analogy). Hawley is a political figure and subject to all the political rhetoric that comes with it. If a government employee can't deal with that reality, the employee (not the citizen) needs to grow up. This is about what is right and wrong, not about whose feelings got bent out of shape or why. TSA employees need to be better trained to deal with these things. They have to deal with much the same flack that LEO's get, but don't have the professionalism to deal with it properly (at least most don't seem to have it). This is a problem that Hawley and Chertoff won't address because they really are idiots when it comes to managing security and people.
Stealing toothpaste from people is not protecting us from any security threat.
- Alan