Originally Posted by BearX220 (Post 15256066)

Well, the airline employees' unions now have a choice. They can exit this whole debate because they got theirs, leaving passengers to their ugly fate... which is exactly what TSA wants. (Divide and conquer is right.) Or they can connect the dots between patdown outrage, cancelled travel, and their own job security, and advocate for all of us.

By the same token, I hope that if and when TSA tries to buy off FT-class frequent flyers with some kind of trusted-traveler biometric solution that keeps the blueshirts' fingers out of our shorts, we have the good political sense to reject that divide-and-conquer tactic and say: hell no.

Originally Posted by oldjonesy (Post 15256594)

First of all, I agree that pilots should be exempt. However, I do find it HIGHLY amusing that the TSA and there mouth pieces have been arguing passionately for months on why pilots should be screened are now going to have to reverse their position and argue, with just as much passion, why pilots should NOT be screened.

HIGHLY amusing watching this :p