Pretty sure posting their names (at least on FT) is a good way to end up on the ban-wagon.

If what state is full fact and you have witnesses (or video) you have a legal case and need to follow up on the investigation within the TSA for abuse of your rights. You are not required to state your name as long as you have two forms of i.d.

Definitely contact your congressman!

Good luck!

This is the first I have heard this. Is this a declared or (funny, I know) published policy?

I don't agree with many of the TSA policies/tactics, and this one is no different. This one may be the most pointless one they are doing. The entire reason this is happening is because the TDC didn't catch one guy a couple of months ago going through security twice with other people's boarding passes. It's just insane. I have a feeling if they felt that terrorists could not stand on one foot, we would be hopping through the checkpoint the next day.

I would have stopped the process right there and said the following.....

A) With all due respect, "the Nigerian guy with the fake boarding pass" was allowed to fly because the TSA screwed up and that is not my problem

B). If you would please look in my briefcase, you will see a folder containing copies of the Federal Regulations which state that I do not have to pronounce my name and with the TSO doing just that, they are in violation of the law so if you are here to arrest anyone, please read the regulations I just told you about and then where I have satisfied the federal requirements, either allow me to pass or arrest the TSO.

CFR 1540.107: Submission to screening and inspection

CFR 1560.3

I hope you live in the suburbs, where you actually have representation in Congress!

Arguing with a TSO is like wrestling with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it. George Bernard Shaw

If living in California, the US Senator who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee is from there. But she doesn't care -- she is an advocate of strip search machines and supports the TSA asking passengers to say their names and requiring that passengers submit to interrogation by government employees even in the absence of evidence of the passenger engaging in any criminal activity.

The only practical way this will change is if a critical mass of the public abandons ignorance, paranoia and apathy.

All mute and non-English speaking passengers are now semi banned from flying? :confused:

The clerkpoint lines are going to get real slow at international airports if every non-English speaker is going to get a retaliation search. :td:

Has anyone tried holding up a laminated card that says "I have taken a vow of silence. Please respect my decision"? Could claim discrimination if harassed.

I kinda have.

It is not that I have to be silent. I am hearing impaired and everyone else is.

I was very nervous today that this insanity had spread to my airport. Not today. I get to check another airport on Saturday.

Why am I nervous? I really may not know that they have asked me to say anything. And if they do I may not know what they have asked. My hearing problem is variable. On a 1-10 where 10 is the best I can ever hear, today was about a 2. I can manage pretty well at 4-5.

I was rescued by an attentive TDC 1-striper last week. The person with him said he needed to ask me some questions. At least that was my best guess as to what he said. I said that I was hearing impaired and that I might not understand his questions. The TDC looked at me and knowing I was from KY by my DL said "...........bourbon?" I do not know if it was "Do you like" or "What is your favorite" all I got was "bourbon." I am from Kentucky, I get it. Fried Chicken, the Derby and Bourbon. The total KY experience.

I said "Wild Turkey 101."

He elbowed his partner in a he's OK manner and they sent me through.

Glad I did not say Jack Daniels.

really?
 

you're complaining because someone asks you to pronounce your name? how many of you have denied answering questions at the custom/passport control? Why should a TSA checkpoint be any different? Also, after the questioning, I tend to get a "Have a nice flight, Mr. xxx" and I know my name is hard to pronounce.

I don't get it. How is Customs in any meaningful way analogous to TSA? They have vastly different enabling legislation and regulation. Of course their checkpoints should be different.

Why do you think they are the same?

Welcome to FlyerTalk! :)

Transiting customs is most defiantly not the same as an administrative search for weapons, explosives, and incendiaries. Nobody is required to speak to TSA Behavior Detection voodoo practitioners.

ha! Jack Daniel's isn't bourbon, but I doubt a terrorist would know that...