Well let's see. As a TSA agent, I man a checkpoint at which people can choose to avoid and I ask to see a person's ID to verify that they are the person listed on their boarding pass. I search individual's property and person. I have no arrest powers. I can only deny passage under certain circumstances, and I can only deny certain items passage through the checkpoint.

There is a reasonable debate about whether government should be allowed this authority.

However there is no comparison to the NAZIs who committed genocide. Show me the TSA employee who has gone to any of your houses seeking out people to put in death camps. Many of you joke about how you play games with TSA employees thereby proving how little we resemble the NAZIs. I don't think that the NAZIs had a complaint department.

I think these types of statements have two effects. First they entrench TSA powers by preventing a reasonable discussion of the issues. I have outlined this in other posts. But my position is simply that no one wants to be associated with a kook. And since you believe that the TSA is working against the nation's interests, your comments are in fact treasonous because you are making it easy for the TSA to stay in power.

Secondly I think that your comments trivialize the evil of the NAZIs. I work at a checkpoint not Aushwitz. I screen people, I don't gas them. And Anne Frank didn't have the option to choose to avoid a NAZI death camp like you can walk away from a checkpoint. I believe that in order for us to truly avoid another Holocaust is to truly comprehend its evil. By comparing it to the TSA you negate the true evil that you oppose, and make it far easier for it to be repeated.

Angry Dan