It doesn't matter whether I'd like a seat next to an extremely anxious person or not--that should not deprive them of the liberty to fly.

The charge of the TSA is limited to "the inspection of individuals and property FOR weapons, explosives, and incendiaries." (Thank you, Trollkiller.)

Cash is none of the above.

Further it is an outright LIE by the TSA to state: it is illegal to carry more than $10,000 cash.

I'm not talking about an extremely anxious pax, half the line is in that catagory. I'm talking about extreme anxiety and/or paranoid schizophrenia . There's a huge difference. One will be just fine while the other has potential to stop your flight. Usually extreme anxiety or paranoid schizophrenia pax are brought to the airport on one way tickets because the person with whom they were staying with can no longer handle/deal with them.

And I always wondered why most of my clients purchased for my travel one-way tickets on the last day of my training appointments with them. Perhaps I'm included with the "paranoid schizophrenia" behavior characteristics?

My point was that if they find 10 000,01 on you, they confiscate all of it, not the 0,01 in excess

Your description fits most of the people I deal with on a daily basis, not one of them is any threat to the safety of an airplane. Could they go nuts once up in the air - yes, they sure could but for a BDO to interview them and perhaps try to keep them off a plane due to the behaviors they can exhibit is pure and simple discrimination against people with profound disabilities - and not legal.

These are adults, often living on their own and for the most part making their own way in the world. Are they different in the extreme? Most certainly, but that is no reason for them to be treated as suspects at an airport.

And they don't travel on one-way tickets.

What, you think the TSA is lying ? You don't trust their employees to abide by the SOP ? Why do you hate America ?

Of course they will send you to secondary if they feel like it. You are free to summon a supervisor and/or fill out a complaint. And good luck with THAT.

BDOs do not have the legal authority to keep people off of planes

How would you know that a person has such a medical condition unless it was in such an extreme state at that present time?

maybe not all but yes they do

This is an inherent issue with fixed wing drivers

EVERY BANKING TRANSACTION $10,000.00 OR MORE, IS REPORTED TO THE TREASURY and IRS.

Further, when travelling INTERNATIONALLY, a declaration that you are carrying $10,000 OR MORE is REQUIRED by law.

Customs, in turn, reports the information to the Treasury and IRS.

That's why TSA and Customs can ask in the PERFORMANCE of their official duties, and IF they open your luggage and find large amounts of cash, the question then becomes are you invoved in something illegal and money-laundering? Are the bills REAL or counterfeit?

Wire-Transfers and Letters of Credit are much safer instruments for large amounts.

I didn't realize one was no longer allowed to travel if one has a mental disability. Of course, one runs the risk of being gunned down in the jetway is they have a mental illness. Buyer beware.
The mission creep continues; now the TSA serves as the psychiatry clinic.
Talk about roosters running the hen house.

I've done a bit of rotor-wing training. Everyone one of the instructors (after catching their breath and the normal color returns to their face) told me that I suffer from a known psychiatric disorder called "fixed-wing fixation".

Each one of them told me I might be cured of "fixed-wing fixation" but none of them were professionally qualified to help in my therapy to cure that disorder. And no none of them knew of any other rotor-wing instructors that could help me.

But I did enjoy reading FlyCent's comments about how anything on an aircraft's exterior can handle take-offs/landing and flying at 32,000' therefore can handle someone grabbing on to it for his weight.

I was not aware that TSA screeners (or inspector in this case) got such in depth training on aircraft limits/vulnerabilities.

I still look forward to a BDO engaging in conversation with me to determine my "hostile intent". He won't have a clue how much behavior he'll detect.

Talk about ridiculous inflammatory comments to justify a personal bias.

None of which has the slightest legal (or moral) relevance* to someone flying domestically. But you knew that.

(*absent a specific and limited BOLO)

no, they cannot confiscate what is legal only what you did not declare