Another Report of TSA Thuggery
 

Disappointing :td:

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This account of a gang of TSA thugs following the woman and her son onto the plane and detaining them is pretty darn appalling.

Spreading the word about this sort of abuse is something we all ought to be doing more actively. Blog a link, tweet it, plaster the offending TSOs' names all over the internet.

I've seen older Egyptian citizens apologizing to the young protesters of their nation for not having the guts and the will to speak out about the "emergency" order instituted there 30 years ago. Some of them apparently feel that they cooperated and submitted to authority to such an extreme that they scarcely noticed until they basically had no rights at all.

I certainly hope that doesn't happen in the US -- I hope the checks and balances originally set up in our Constitution will prevent it. But when I see the vast majority of sheep herded thru the checkpoints without uttering any protest, I have to wonder what THIS country will look like in 30 years.

I really like that she outed the thugs by name, title and place of employment. There should be no privacy for "public servants" who abuse public trust.

I reported a few weeks ago about a TDC thinking that a German and Swiss passport were 'cool' and how he wanted to make copies for 'training purposes'. I responded firmly but politely why that was not an option, and continued through the checkpoint.

About 30 minutes later I was sitting at the gate, and three TSOs appeared to stand about 3 metres away from me. I will admit that my very first thought was 'they have come for me'. It was in fact a gate ID check, but made me rather nervous, even though I had done nothing wrong. (And in the end, they didn't check my ID)

My experiences and more importantly the experiences of family in the DDR make me nervous at any checkpoint, even though I logically know that I should have nothing to fear.

There is something seriously unbalanced in this country when people fear the government. It is supposed to be the other way around :(

Is Mary Theroux perhaps a FlyerTalker? Nobody else would call them Brownshirts, right?

Except, of course, for the simple fact that they are little better than the original Sturmabteilung.

The Founding Fathers had very good reasons for including the Second Amendment in the Bill of Rights.

Not surprisingly, I've heard this from people I know for a fact are not FlyerTalkers. The word it out and the sheeple are waking up... ^

Pathetic I hope the sheep start waking up and causing a ruckus.

I rub elbows with LEOs occasionally, and although I don't hear those particular terms, the words "loathing" and "disgust" do come up when they talk about how they feel when the women in their lives are being peeped and felt up at the airport, felt up to a degree that is forbidden to the LEOs unless arresting someone.

Makes me wonder if it will be a pax or LEO who will be the first to loose it on a TSO.

My cousin, who is a PANYNJ cop, called them whiny little .....es when I recounted an incident I had with one blimp sized Clerk at EWR who had a bad day and attempted to take it out on me.

They constantly call LEO there for no good reason, and he has nothing but distain for them, feels they should all lose their jobs, etc.

Wonder no more.

The TSA employee "lost it" first.

Anger management seems to be one area in which the TSA really needs to offer "additional training opportunities" to its horde of knuckle-draggers.

Don't think you can count this one as who will go off on a TSA employee.

Anyhow, it certainly seems that using tactics of a bully is part of TSA's extensive training, so this person was just using the tools TSA provided.