Yeah....in addition to legal expertise....Maybe Ptravel can get us some discounts on some Nutritional products!!!

I would also add Flight Crews, which is a category my GF falls into. And honestly, I don't know too many of them that would put TSA on their X-mas list!!

On the cargo aspect (actually checked bags), you should see what happens in the check bag screening. Ask any Flight crew that goes through airports set up like MRY, (where they go through the secured area where the check baggage screening occurs) and see what they tell you transpires.

On a side note, anyone going on the Cow Do in EZE for Sept. can hear some of those stories. I see Spiff will be attending this.

I'd bring free samples to the next DO, but I don't think they'd get through the security inspection. For anyone else mystified by this remark, I am General Counsel for a company that manufactures nutraceuticals, vitamins and nutritional products. What this has to do with my credibility is beyond me -- you'll have to ask goingbananas.

And to be clear, I'm speaking specifically about air cargo (and U.S. mail), not checked bags. Air cargo from "trusted shippers" is not inspected, nor is U.S. mail.

No, he won't, because Dean never resorts to name calling, insults, or other less than adult behavior. He treats others with respect, and receives ours in return.

Bart is capable of the same kind of behavior as Dean, and generally shows it. Ron, OTOH, believes that insulting people, making unsupported claims, and avoiding honest debate is the way to go through life.

^ I've mentioned this in prior posts. Bart may disagree with people but he almost always does so civilly (as, of course, does HSVTSODean). TSORon, on the other hand, seems to think he's Don Rickles. And he's not.

I'll agree with you as well, I may not always agree with Bart. However he does make a genuine effort to answer questions without name calling or trying to change the subject with misdirection.

Name the 1 policy or procedure, for which the TSA is 100% responsible, that, had it been in place on 9/10/01, would have prevented '9/11' (TM).

Remember, reinforcing the flight deck doors, changing airline policy re: cooperating w/hijackers, & banning of box cutters (purely symbolic, given the allowance of scissors w/much longer blades, & pre-dates the inception of the TSA as was pointed out to you the last time you were asked this question) are off limits for purposes of your answer.

'9/11' (TM) is the only reason for the existence of the TSA & you are a front line member of the TSA's workforce-this shouldn't be such a difficult question for you, or any TSAer, to answer. Why are you having so much trouble w/this??

Remember, you keep bringing this stuff up...

I am a TSO, not management. I don�t make or affect policy. Why are you having so much trouble w/this??

That's not what you were asked. Go back & read the question again (or any of the other times you've been asked the same question, if you prefer).

I think the reason you are having 'so much trouble with this' is that nothing the TSA has done, which means by extention you, in the name of preventing 'another 9/11' (TM), has actually accomplished that, despite claims to the contrary.

As others have pointed out to you, every time you pop up w/some nonsense claim or another, the crowd here is going to expect you to 'put up or shut up', the same as we do w/any other poster. However, as you seem to have great difficulty doing this, you may be better off sticking to posting your unsubstantiated, & unsustainable, claims on the EOS blog.

Who was it in another thread said:

"Every job out there, without exception, requires more than what one sees on the job description."


And here is the crux of the problem I see with you in this forum. Ignorance. Honestly, that�s the problem. One dimensional thinking.

It's easy to see how you're working for the TSA; not accepting responsibility to simply answer a question (seems to be a problem with others TSAers as well in this forum) and deflecting blame onto others.

You've probably been named employee of the year at your station.

You do realize you have contradicted yourself.

Which is it Ron, either you have the ability to address the problem or you can not make or change policy?

Why not? Screeners are human beings and make mistakes. Guns and knives get through. If they get through in the hands of the wrong people and are then discovered in a search at the gate, then it's a bad, bad day for those poor screeners.

The root of the problem with missing the items that you mention is largely with the antiquated technology at the checkpoints.

I don't discount human nature, but airport security would be improved a LOT by giving TSAers better technology.