Originally Posted by
TSABOS
Plastic bags - Do not keep you safer, atleast directly, they instead are a measuring tool, which helps regulate how much liquid is being brought onto a plane.
So if six pax each bring a baggie with six three ounce bottles containing liquid explosives they can board the aircraft? 6 x 3 = 18oz x 6 pax = 108 oz. That's almost a gallon of liquid! Ridiculous? of course. But, so is the baggie rule.
Originally Posted by
TSABOS
Bad, bad, bad approach. I happen to be an adjunct university professor. Wikipedia is not recognized as a legitimate source to reference for formal papers. Why, you may ask? Because Wikipedia does not use referenced, published material; anyone may contribute anything to Wikipedia without attribution.
Possible to create liquid explosives? Yes. Likely to bring down a plane? No;why bother with something that is so unstable and unpredictable when there are much easier ways to accomplish the same goal?
Originally Posted by
TSABOS
You think you, the passenger, get treated bad? Please. People talk about TSA having poor customer service, well what about poor customers? I work a low-paying Gov't job, where it is in our contract that we can't unionize, work irregular hours, much of it on manditory overtime, so please add insult to injury by verbally abusing me, as I try my best to keep you safe when you travel. On Christmas. When I will indeed be working.
Just because you have a crappy job is no reason to take out your frustrations on citizens who DO pay your salary. As for you keeping me safe when I travel, I beg to differ.
Originally Posted by
TSABOS
Tell me how uneducated I am to the CJ degree on my wall.
A degree, any degree, only certifies that the holder successfully completed a certain number of courses in a given curriculum. CJ is a soft social science in a liberal arts program. The earning of such a degree does not embody the holder with any special insight, in fact, any 1st year police officer with a bachelor's degree in CJ must still attend a police academy to learn the technical aspects of the job.
By the way - I left the spelling errors in your quotes without correcting them. I would take points off if you submitted this to me for grading.
Originally Posted by
TSABOS
Stop asking me if you look like a terrorist. You do.
Really? Can you see my chest heaving when I approach the checkpoint? How about beads of perspiration forming on my forehead? Or failing to make eye contact? Or a bounding pulse? Or heavy breathing? Or trembling hands as I show my BP?
If you see a terrorist in every pax who approaches your checkpoint, you need to give some serious thoughts to another line of work.
Originally Posted by
TSABOS
If you really hate us that bad, just stop flying. It's simple. You do not have the right to fly, you have the privilege. It is not an invasion of privacy, when you voluntarily purchase a ticket.
Well, sir, much like you, some of us depend on commercial flight for our livelihoods. It is easy to tell us not to fly, but if more people take that to heart, you may have to go back to your six figure salary when TSA starts their layoffs.
Originally Posted by
TSABOS
The TSA has all the Constitutional backing they need, 4th Amendment, implied consent, yadda yadda yadda. Once you enter the checkpoint, this is the implied consent. Your property now belongs to the United States Gov't.
What did you learn in your CJ program? TSA may have this approach right now, but sooner or later there will be a challenge that will go to SCOTUS. My background tells me the wholesale confiscation and destruction of personal property that is not in and of itself contraband, will be found to be unconstitutional.
Originally Posted by
TSABOS
People just don't seem to get it. And don't see how badly we're treated.
We do get it. I am sorry if you have been treated badly. I personally have always been polite and civil to TSO's, but I do not excuse bad behavior.
Your agency head, Kip Hawley, was a railroad vice president who has absolutely no background in security or terrorism. He is now promulgating rules for the entire transportation industry, with a special emphasis on the airline industry. What has been fostered on the travelling public is an absolute travesty of justice cloaked in the guise of "making the skies safer." And you wonder why people treat you badly?