And what can we do about it? Nothing, absolutely nothing.

I have said before and will say it again. I do not condone violence against anyone, including a clerk, but in one sceniero that is a very real possibility given the total outrage over the genital groping and molestations going on at the checkpoint, some individual seeing his loved one being groped by a clerk is going to respond by mopping up the floor with a blue shirt and tin badge, while the clerk is still wearing them.

I would love to serve on that jury, given that sceniero, I say its self defense and guarantee an acquittal^

Not that I would by any means suggest that someone take specific action here, but there are plenty of things that one can do about it.

Ostracize TSA. If you're friends with a screener outside of work, then end the friendship. Tell them why.

Refuse to do business with TSA. If you're a shop owner and a uniformed screener comes in to your shop to make a purchase, refuse to sell the service or item. If you run a restaurant, post a sign up saying that TSA is not welcome.

Refuse to help TSA. If a screener comes up to you and asks for help, directions, etc. wherever you are then refuse to provide them. If a screener falls and is injured, refuse to call for EMS.

If they insist upon taking total power inside the checkpoint, then fine - let that be their little fiefdom. But remember, you're totally free outside of the checkpoint - and what you do there is your business. Perhaps if screeners feel like second- or third-class citizens outside of the checkpoint, they will decide that the hassle away from the job isn't worth it and move on to other positions outside the agency.

The best I think one juror could do is guarantee a hung jury. But I absolutely agree with your sentiments on this. If I ever serve on a jury where one side is a TSA screener, I can guarantee that there's not enough evidence in the world to make me side with that person.

Is it right? No. Is it justice? Absolutely - it's delayed justice for what they do at checkpoints.

Bolding mine: Or if the other side is a law enforcement officer who backed-up the screener's actions as in Phil Moseck's case.

I think that is the most likely scenario -- not some road warrior popping off, but an infrequent leisure flyer watching his daughter get selected for nude viewing, then felt up in a recreational (for TSA) secondary, and going berserk. In fact, I can't believe it hasn't happened yet. Abuse begets abuse.

I disagree with all of the above. I'm not sure what it accomplishes besides further embittering TSOs or accelerating the churn rate in TSO ranks (already off-the-charts high). Do you do this with everyone who works for immoral or objectionable organizations -- megabanks, BP, Philip Morris, Murdoch newspapers? What you describe sounds too much like the systematic badging and ostracizing of Jews in Europe during the war; it verges on hate crime. Our campaign is against the institution and its genuinely evil leaders... not its poor tools, many of whom are as much sheeple as the dopes who march cheerily into the NoS with their arms held high.

Not much chance of you making it past voir dire then.

I have been through voir dire for a murder case. They don't hook you up to a lie detector...just sayin.

You are under oath, however. Just sayin'.

Ah, I see, the spreading of "facts" for one's personal entertainment duly noted.

We did not take an oath, and they did not interview each candidate individually. They posed questions to the group as a whole.

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Which means they're actually correct. A little bit of Gitmo in every airport.

Bart,

Don't assume that because you belong to a culture of cowardice there are not those who would "do squat" if push came to shove. Not that long ago, because of a family emergency I was forced to fly out of Boston with my wife and toddler son. Going into the process my wife knew without a shadow of a doubt that we were not going to be rape-scanned and that if some degenerate, fry-guy dropout attempted to so much as touch my son there was going to be exactly one warning to not fondle my son and then I was going to jail...but not before breaking the wrist of my son's assaulter.

You see, I don't subscribe to the idea that "Violence against TSOs is unacceptable under any circumstances" any more than I do those inane "war is not the answer" bumper stickers. Sometimes violence, like war, is exactly the correct course of action because to do otherwise would be a violation of our very dignity and principles...something I doubt very much a person in your position knows anything about.

Hmmm... It's always possible that one could "forget" one's true feelings for a few moments of time. ;)

Yes! The more I hear of this, the more pleased I become. I would dig ditches for a living before I would work TSA. Seems far more pleasant, and I wouldn't have to subjugate my fellow humans to earn my pay.