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Originally Posted by Lumpy
(Post 9141171)
Dear Scubatooth: what the TSA does has NEVER been "customer service." It is either coercion or outright threat. IMHO it is generally criminal.
I won't line up for it any more. Once was far more than enough to educate me as to what our airports and government have become. Still lining up, are you? I know the drill and there stupid rules, so i dont give them a inch at all as they don't deserve based on past behavior, especially when im traveling with camera or dive gear. Needless to say there are a set of screeners at DFW in Term E that wont give me any issues ever again because they know im more then willing call a LEO, GSC and FSD (I dont bother with the Sup) in to stop there attitude/threats and BS when they are clearly in the wrong. You should have seen the look on the holes face when i announced for those individuals. Needless to say the hole backed down after the whole checkpoint was aware of what he was doing and who had been requested. |
Originally Posted by Lumpy
(Post 9141171)
I won't line up for it any more. Once was far more than enough to educate me as to what our airports and government have become.
Still lining up, are you? Unless I absolutely have to, meaning family emergency, job requirement, or job interview. And if my current job search effort succeeds (leaving the corporate rat race for college professorship), I will never set foot in an airport again except for a family emergency. After being subjected to sexual battery (no exaggeration - they groped every conceivable part of my body) in FRA, I cannot look at an airport without getting physically sick to my stomach. |
Good to hear from you again, PoliceStateSurvivor. Threads seem to be discussing the discovery that a few pax(FINALLY!) are realizing there is 'something amiss' with the 'agency' which pledges 'dignity and respect' for each pax. Some of my acquaintances even get stunned and angry looks now when I ask the generic "how was security during your flights?" Some are even beginning to believe this little nightmare has been corrupt from the start, and that we shadow players, forcibly caught up in the drama with no recourse, are all too unwilling public examples for the TSA.
Too bad more people with brain pans larger than a pigeon's aren't realizing they are being used as co-stars for this idiocy. |
Originally Posted by Lumpy
(Post 9158103)
Good to hear from you again, PoliceStateSurvivor. Threads seem to be discussing the discovery that a few pax(FINALLY!) are realizing there is 'something amiss' with the 'agency' which pledges 'dignity and respect' for each pax. Some of my acquaintances even get stunned and angry looks now when I ask the generic "how was security during your flights?" Some are even beginning to believe this little nightmare has been corrupt from the start, and that we shadow players, forcibly caught up in the drama with no recourse, are all too unwilling public examples for the TSA.
Too bad more people with brain pans larger than a pigeon's aren't realizing they are being used as co-stars for this idiocy. I haven't seen the inside of an airport since I came back from Europe last September and I hope to keep it that way. I drove for my Christmas vacation and I plan to it again this Summer. Sure, it takes more vacation days, but I don't have to take my shoes off unless I want to and I can have all liquids I need without worrying about the Kippie bag. As an added benefit I get to see more of the country Also, I can put my scuba gear in the trunk and forget about it until I get to the dive boat. No dragging it through airports and worrying about TSA paws handling it. And if I succeed in leaving the rat race for college professorship, time will not be an issue at all. |
There's no way this was written by a screener; this was a carefully prepared piece of BS written by someone at HQ.
As a result of 9/11, the price to fly today will never, ever be the same. Flying is a privilege, not a right. And yes, there’s increased scrutiny of your person, your clothing, your baggage, your attitude, your comments and statements, the contents of your bags, your shoes, your liquids, gels, pastes and aerosols, and your headwear. There is no profiling, because everyone is looked at for those listed things. I don't care -- nor does the TSA -- if you’re blue, green, orange, white, red, black, purple or yellow. I care that you or someone you’re traveling with might think they can make a name for themselves or their cause by trying to take on one or more items through security, which could potentially take out or take down another aircraft. September 11, 2001 had nothing to do with airport screening procedures. Flying is a privilege? Gotta cite for that, Tracy the Liar? I know people argue this point, but it really could be the guy next to you, the woman with the child, the grandma with her cane or walker. The sad state of this world is that if the bad guy thinks we -- the U.S. and specifically the TSA -- won't check or don't check grandmas and babies, that's exactly what they will use to further their supposed cause. The bad guys keep testing the security systems of this country. They watch and observe at airports, bus stations and train stations. They take pictures so they can refer back to them. They draw diagrams of checkpoints, x-ray machines, and they are continually looking for loopholes to our security procedures. They try to find what is and isn’t being checked, what restrictions are or aren’t in effect. They try hard every day to find a way around a security procedures. Our efforts are meant to close that door to them so they can’t get into the system and disrupt it. |
Originally Posted by TracytheLiar
As a result of 9/11, the price to fly today will never, ever be the same. Flying is a privilege, not a right.
This disgusting agency should be physically ejected from all our nation's airports. "Workfare is a privilege, not a right, Comrade." :mad: |
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