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Except for being flat out wrong, sure.

Which is where this whole argument started, IIRC. They are doing things that we the peons get penalized for. They are bringing >1L of unscreened liquids through the "security" checkpoint in >3.4oz-labelled containers. They are violating the rules they enforce on paying customers, creating the "we're more-equal than you" appearance. They may or may not be doing it deliberately - but it's there, as evidenced by this very thread.

Technically, it would simply be ILlogical. This does not excuse further illogic in allowing them to break the rules they are paid to enforce on us, or in preventing us from bringing through the exact same things they can.

Oh really? Entire threads have been devoted to ways they could accomplish just that, without harassing the passengers. Think FTers are the only people who can come up with those ideas?

Not by anyone with a modicum of intelligence and/or the ability to do Internet searches. Not that I've seen here, at least.

Said demonstrated incompetence is indeed (at least part of) the issue under discussion, IIRC. And apparently they CAN determine the difference - as long as they're the ones carrying the coffee. They just can't manage the same thing for the paying passengers.

I don't have a problem with him drinking coffee. Let him follow his agency's own frakking rules in order to do so. Or, as an agency, they could institute effective existing methods to determine if the water bottle or cup o' joe is safe for the pax to take through the checkpoint, and trust US as we're supposed to be trusting THEM. 'Trust but verify' needs to work BOTH ways, not just down-chain. Otherwise, they're nothing more than the pigs proclaiming the equality of all the animals while demonstrating otherwise.