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Old Jun 19, 2008 | 8:25 pm
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Originally Posted by AngryDan
Call me anything you want. But please consider that the TSA workforce includes many currently active and retired members of the United States armed forces. Some of whom have been injured defending the country you just accused them of betraying. Most of them have no policy making authority.
Serving one's country is a noble accomplishment. That does not give one license to use the Constitution as toilet paper at a later date.

Originally Posted by AngryDan
I have never served. So call me a traitor all you want, although I love my country and consider my employment in TSA as a form of service. But don't you dare call any veteran a traitor. Especially if as I suspect you also never served your country.
Military service and destroying people's civil liberties are not related in any way. If one commits traitorous acts, one is a traitor. Prior military service does not excuse future disgusting, un-American behavior.

Originally Posted by AngryDan
But I have also written about how the rhetoric of the people opposing TSA policies causes them to be branded as kooks and that undermines their cause. Good luck calling us all traitors. Good luck calling the screeners who are serving or who have served their country in combat traitors. You wonder why people don't join your cause.
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