More TSOs banning filming, and a passenger written up for using names of body parts
Jul 14, 2011, 6:55 am
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More TSOs banning filming, and a passenger written up for using names of body parts
Prepare to be sickened by this video --
http://www.pixiq.com/article/tsa-scr...rove-ignorance
Not only was the passenger's wife told by a supervisor that she cannot film the checkpoint. The passenger was then written up because a TSO was "disturbed" that he used the word "penis" when asking about the resolution of the NoS. The TSO was concerned for the nearby kids hearing such filthy words.
http://www.pixiq.com/article/tsa-scr...rove-ignorance
Not only was the passenger's wife told by a supervisor that she cannot film the checkpoint. The passenger was then written up because a TSO was "disturbed" that he used the word "penis" when asking about the resolution of the NoS. The TSO was concerned for the nearby kids hearing such filthy words.
Jul 14, 2011, 7:16 am
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I don't know BWI's policies, but it is very clear that the TSO is stating that it is against TSA policy to record. He's got all the buzzwords in there: "I'm the supervisor, so listen to me", "SSI", "classified", "interfering with the screening". (Isn't he the one interfering, taking well over a minute to harass the photographer while he repeatedly says he doesn't have time to show her why he's right, and that he has another passenger to deal with?)
Regardless, the even more disturbing part is at the end, when her husband has his BP and ID details recorded for a report, because the TSO was disturbed at his use of the words for a man's private parts.
I e-mailed the YouTube poster and suggested that contact the ACLU. Not for the photography part, but for this last part. These people need to be put in their place once and for all.
Regardless, the even more disturbing part is at the end, when her husband has his BP and ID details recorded for a report, because the TSO was disturbed at his use of the words for a man's private parts.
I e-mailed the YouTube poster and suggested that contact the ACLU. Not for the photography part, but for this last part. These people need to be put in their place once and for all.
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Jul 14, 2011, 7:19 am
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How funny!! TSA now CARES about the welfare of kids. Huh. Couldva fooled me. I find it ironic how the "agents" on this site continue to justify their existence with crap like this going on. Getting hired off a pizza box just doesnt seem to be an ego booster to me.
Jul 14, 2011, 7:29 am
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As of June 29th, the signs at BWI have been covered up.
Jul 14, 2011, 7:34 am
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Jul 14, 2011, 7:38 am
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They're OK with the kids *seeing* a grown man groping another grown man, or a grown man groping a child, but the words "penis" or "testicles" jar their cognitive dissonance enough to upset them.
Jul 14, 2011, 7:41 am
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The simpler thing to do would be to just gather your items and walk away from the checkpoint. The TSA cannot prevent you from doing this... If it causes a terminal breach, then it causes one. Let TSA deal with the ramifications of their poor decisions.
Jul 14, 2011, 7:46 am
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Jul 14, 2011, 8:08 am
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and that LEO will have a formal complaint filed against them with IA for doing so, without cause nor permission as TSA doesn't need that info, and violates its own policy if it does not provide the REQUIRED disclosures.
One of my co-workers (also a deputy for one of the local SO) did that to a texas state trooper at IAH last month after a incident with TSA (they tried to claim his badge was a weapon), and not only did his complaint cause a whole load of problems (including facing dismissal now) for the trooper he got a call from the troopers captain same day the complaint was lodged. Texas DPS IA must have had a PF 50 event when they saw the complaint as it caused bovine excrement to hit the rotating oscillator PDQ, hence the captain calling my co-worker to try and smooth things over.
One of my co-workers (also a deputy for one of the local SO) did that to a texas state trooper at IAH last month after a incident with TSA (they tried to claim his badge was a weapon), and not only did his complaint cause a whole load of problems (including facing dismissal now) for the trooper he got a call from the troopers captain same day the complaint was lodged. Texas DPS IA must have had a PF 50 event when they saw the complaint as it caused bovine excrement to hit the rotating oscillator PDQ, hence the captain calling my co-worker to try and smooth things over.
Jul 14, 2011, 8:14 am
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http://www.tsa.gov/press/goodcatch/071111_knives.shtm
You can be sure that if that passenger's spouse was filming the checkpoint, the TSOs would have been in such a tizzy that they would have let the 13 knives go right on by.
You can be sure that if that passenger's spouse was filming the checkpoint, the TSOs would have been in such a tizzy that they would have let the 13 knives go right on by.