TSA Procedures In Place For Reason

http://www.wbaltv.com/r/28476829/detail.html

Intended to support more groping.

What a joke This "editorial" reads like a fourth grade essay.

Sounds like WBAL-TV Vice President and General Manager Dan Joerres is angling for a government job. So TSA could read his work, he didn't use any big words.

Disgusting. How anyone can forgive, defend, or sympathize with any TSA employee at any level today simply defies all logic.

That editor is clearly lacking common decency. I daresay they're about as close to sub-human as one can get without actually becoming a TSA employee themselves.

Anyone up for a letter-writing campaign to set this journalist straight?

Let's also work on getting this poll looking better.

Just voted.

Voting effort seems to be working in our favor as of Friday morning. As the saying goes, "Vote early, vote often".

[I had to format.]

Not a lot of votes, but it is interesting that there is little wussy middle ground. It is a love/hate relationship.

Public affairs/Spokeshole-in-Chief replacing Spokesholess Kristin???

Just voted again. We're up to 50%.

Does anyone have an e-mail address for this yahoo? I'd like to give him a piece of my mind.

Try a bit of googling - took me about a minute, but I think you'd do better commenting on the article (although I can't get that to work ).

(BTW I just voted. Again )

If that ran on the air, then letters sent to the station must be placed in the public file, and complaints may be made to the FCC. Likewise the parent company - Hearst - would certainly be be more than glad to receive a complaint.

Mr. Joerres is not a very capable TSA apologist. All he does is assert that,
There is no follow through of this argument or any support for this unproven assertion.

Verdict: fail

The worst part of this nonsense is that people who know nothing about security or travel infrequently will tend to agree with his idiotic statements.

The people who understand security agree as well. It is the paranoid group that thinks that they understand security (but in reality are clueless) that disagree with anything that the Government does.

It is funny, I travel a great deal (on a plane at least once a week for the past 6 months) in various airports in the US and have yet to be groped or asked to do anything but walk through the WTMD. I must be doing something wrong because I'm not subjected to the indignities that the tin foil crew is exposed to.

Maybe my mistake is that I take everything out of my pockets and stow it in my carryon before I get to the checkpoint. I remove my watch (and only have been asked once to remove my belt) and put my shoes on the conveyor. I've never even had my carryon pulled aside for an inspection.

I've even been known to say "Good morning" to the guy or gal checking my boarding pass against my ID.

Obviously everyone is shocked by some of the stupid things that happen at times but even the tin foil crew has to admit that they are isolated cases given the sheer amount of passengers transiting airports every day.

Come to think of it, in the last month or so I've only seen one pax pulled out of line for additional screening. Perhaps I'm traveling in a parallel universe.

Or maybe it is that I don't expect to get hassled and so I don't.