*raises hand*

Go Lady!

As a former member of the Armed Services, I find getting secondary screened to be highly wasteful of my time, the TSA’s time and the inevitible supervisor who gets to listen to me pitch a bitch and call him nearly every dirty word under the sun for “just doing his job.”
Yes, Nazis just did their job too.
Yes, I just broke an Intertubes law.

The TSA is nothing more than a placebo that still manages to fuck things up.

idiots.

A six month boycott of airlines. Interesting idea.
Wish we didn’t have to punish all the non-TSA workers who would be punished because of a boycott.

However, myself, I loathe flying into the US of A these days – I keep wondering when they are going to start using cattle prods. Sort of a mini boycott by traveling less.

The TSA is nothing more than a placebo that still manages to fuck things up.

Give that man one free internets for the best TSA characterization evah!

Although curiously, placebos are in fact known to have negative side effects.

Way to suck up to terrorists, America. We’ve done so much damage now (economic and social) promoting fear, that we’ve helped them be wildly successful. We’ll figure it out eventually, after we grind enough grandmothers with applesauce under our boot.

A truly sad day for America. Cmon folks. Let’s remember what all our soldiers died for.

So, when the TSA screener engaged in the tug-of-war over the passenger’s property, she was certainly in violation of TSA policy, and probably in very murky legal territory as well.

TSA screeners can’t “confiscate” anything; they can ask that you “voluntarily surrender” a prohibited item, or they can deny you access to the sterile area of the airport, or they can call a cop if they find you are in possession of something illegal (e.g. drugs, weapons). But they can’t take anything.

Just shows that the TSA doesn’t respect anything even their own futures, let alone the future of this country.

BTW – The recaptcha for this post is “was backpack”

If you don’t even bother to explain yourself, then why post? You kinda remind me of Ms. Hays. (I’m not going to talk this out, I’m just going to act out.) I am only suggesting that this women should have tried talking to the agents, not grabbing. That’s it.

I think her behavior was rude and caused an unnecessary disruption, perhaps delaying passengers behind her. What ever happened to civility? (I will admit that we don’t know the nature of the TSA agent’s behavior, good or bad, prior to the event. Everyone on this site seems to assume it was bad. They did overreact afterward.)

I once had to dispose of some last minute gifts that I had purchased on the way to the airport because I absent-mindedly put them in my carry-on. I was upset by what the security agent told me, but I didn’t have a tantrum.

That’s NOT a bottle of Moxie in that brown paper bag in his right hand.

I was behind him in line at the liquor store.

The TSA agent was holding the blue cooler. Has was the women or her property being mistreated?

Also, I am not suggesting bowing down to anyone. Talking, yes.

What is this “The Preview Button” you speak of?

*doesn’t raise hand*

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So the next time you’re raising your hand I hope it is with a TSA screener behind you, feeling your bits to his pleasure. Then find this comment and tell me how it is.

It doesn’t work out so well if the state has a pretty strong case against someone who is actually innocent.

It would be unfair to paint all TSA employees with a broad brush, but I will observe that there are more than enough idiotic goons amongst their ranks to make the whole bunch look bad. And that’s everyone, not merely the hapless non-cops at the airport gates – this problem goes straight to the very top of this catastrophe, a fine blend of bureaucratic insanity and mean-spirited thugishness.

The members of the TSA who object are no doubt fearful of speaking up lest they lose their jobs in a crap economy, such a wonderful bludgeon to hang over their heads. And the airlines do nothing, because the planes keep flying nice and sardine-packed. Why should they care that millions of their customers are unfairly inconvenienced, harassed or arrested? They’ll come back, and if they don’t there are plenty more sardines in the sea.

I believe it was Frank Herbert, in God Emperor of Dune, who made some comment about a population whose travel options were restricted being easier to control…