But I guess I can understand why.
I'm a screener at Logan, and hearing people talk about TSA is pretty funny. And it's true, a little knowledge is dangerous. I understand why the liquid rules appear silly, and the question of "how does a plastic bag keep us safer?" I was just reading an article on how we're "unintelligent" and should "have no authority over you." We don't have any authority over you. You're free to do what you want. You have chosen to fly, and chosen to not follow rules, surrender your items, etc. etc.
Btw, as of unintelligent, I can't speak for other airports, but you would be surprised how well-rounded some of us are (atleast at Logan), and how many gave up 6 figure jobs after 9/11 to work for TSA.
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.
Liquids - Are, unfortunatly a threat. Ask any MIT chemistry major, and ask him how unstable, how explosive, and how easily these threats are to mix, and use.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_explosive. Get learn'd.
Any highschool student with half a brain and a chemistry book knows how to blow locker doors off when they're slammed shut.
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.
Tell me how uneducated I am to the CJ degree on my wall.
Stop asking me if you look like a terrorist. You do.
Stop telling me that I wouldn't have my job if it wasn't for 9/11, do you want me to stop doing my job? Talk to Bush. I'd like a few words with him myself.
No, you don't pay my salary. Let's study a capitalist economy for a moment, everyone pays everyones' salary.
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.
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.
People just don't seem to get it. And don't see how badly we're treated.