Yup, that's the kind of liquid explosive that Comrade Hawley's stupid little liquid games are designed to catch. And the system is quite porous at that.

Dude, you are chumming for sharks.

You know, low IQ animals with primitive brains that must travel forward to live.

Keep your chin up, this is not a represntative group, just a vocal one.

The right to fly exists?

Pray tell what perumbra of an emanation that is hiding under?

You don't have the "right" to ride Greyhound without complying with the rules. Heck, you can't even really own a gun in DC and that seems pretty clear to me in the tattered rags of the constitution and bill of rights.

Sheesh, rules for thee and not me - let me be the first to yell commie.

I certainly hope you aren't the screener who yelled at me in Terminal C, to move down "Because my bags come out that end of the x-ray machine" :rolleyes:

and, last time I checked, that $2.50 or whatever "Security Fee" on my one-way ticket IS helping to pay for your salary.

I've been flamed for this in the past, but I really think that those of you generalizing about TSA are way off base. I've travelled UAL monthly from RNO-ORD for almost 4 years now. I would encourage all of you FTers to drive to RNO and begin travel there, :p because the TSA has always been excellent. Futhermore, I've never been treated improperly ORD either. -Sure I've been delayed, searched and have had things taken away. Its not pleasant, but c'mon! We're grown ups for christ sake!

It's the lack of common sense on the TSA's part that makes me crazy. In June I fractured my foot and tore several ligaments, and was in a cast for several months. Since I was in a wheelchair, it should have been obvious I was no threat. If the fondling I received from the TSA in ATL while seated had occurred in another setting, I would have called the police. There was no reason for that woman to touch my breasts and put her hand down the back of my pants. :mad: She swabbed my removable cast, and when I offered to remove it, she said it wasn't necessary. Why make us remove flip flops and sandals when the entire foot is already visible. If the TSA ever asks me if I want to fly, I'll just say no, collect my belongings and go to another checkpoint.

Sorry to hear of your injury. Again though, give TSA break. They do not know that you are an honest passenger. If you cannot pass the metal detector, then you must unfortunately be searched. Remember, TSA has no idea what is going through security attached to you and the wheel chair. Even if you are not ambulatory, you could never the less serve as a conduit for dangerous items.
As for removing your shoes, it's the shoes that TSA wants to check. Not (hopefully) your feet!

Why do it here, where a subset of us believe that your job shouldn't even exist? Troll?:rolleyes:

TSA's rights are my issue, and again 'even to fly at all' is absurd.


This can't be serious. I should hope that there is a difference between Darfur and BOS terminals. :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

:D ... they say Diet Pepsi works better. .... but no one will be bringing down a plane that way anytime in my lifetime. :D ^^

Valid point, since as we all know, in America you are guilty until proven innocent. (as is also codified in the laws of Canada and the EU)

I hoped you asked for a supervisor and filed a complaint because that type of search was against SOP.

Yes, and many of us resent being treated like children and subjected to rules so stupid, even a child can see through them.

Nope. Thank you for playing. There is a right to fly under US law.

People have to stop repeating this "there is no right to fly" meme as if it were true. It's old wive's tale, like the one the goes "humans are the only animals that kill for sport." It makes people feel good to repeat it, regardless of how transparently false it is.

Of course not. You need at least 2 litres to bring down a plane (I could tell you how but that's SSI) and that won't fit in your Kipppy bag. See, the rules work! (Now where's that rock that keeps tigers away?)

Someone has clearly forgotten about the words written in the Fourth Amendment. I'll copy them here just so we remember:

Where, pray tell, does that say the TSA has the rights to search/seize us and our property?