Posted on 02/20/2017 3:05:56 PM PST by WXRGina
I'm the author, and it's not that I "didn't think it would ever happen" to me, but I had hoped that it wouldn't happen without any hint of a reason.
“And ask yourself, if you are so easily upset by something as minor as this, should you really let yourself be around firearms?”
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What the hell is the matter with you?
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You're right, Zathras, but I was too blinded by rage to navigate that process, and like 99.999% of travelers who've been abused by the TSA, I was under a time constraint to get to my flight and couldn't spend the time it would've taken to do that.
Thanks, Sport! :-) You’re spot-on right about those preevs, too.
As if that young man and his mother would actually be planning a terrorist act.
I have also seen hijab-wearers get a smooth pass through without being "handled" in any way.
You are welcome.
Friday, at a foreign airport, I was directed to walk through a walk through scanner, with my belt and big silver buckle, harness boots and everything in my pockets, my laptop and tablet in a backpack and thought it was a preliminary scan, but then got on a plane and came home.
Poo... welcome to the world of the little people ...
what makes you so special ???
Ive had that happen to me and I didn’t have any “alerts”
In the first in Dallas in 2002 I heard my name called and was told I had been randomly selected for an enhanced security check. I was taken aside to be examined.
A beautiful, young blond woman told me to take off my belt and untuck my shirt.
She then put her hands under my shirt and slowly felt my chest, stomach and back. She then ran her hands under my collar slowly examining my neck and shoulders..
She then put her hands inside the waist band of my pants and slowly felt around inside my pants.
Then she got down on one knee and slowly went up each of my legs and then her hands slowly and thoroughly examined my thighs, crotch and butt.
She took her time and had a very sensitive touch.
Another time at Las Vegas airport an employee told me she saw something in the scan.
I stood in front of her while she sat on a chair with her face about six inches from my crotch and she slowly examined my inner thighs, crotch and butt. She first felt outside my pants and then put her hands inside my pants and felt my crotch and butt for a while.
Mostly I hate airport security but these times were ok.
Hello, Noob. So, you like tyranny? You like unreasonable searches of your body? You're a TROLL. TAKE A HIKE.
No, thank our government who believes Isis types have a right to come to this country. Also blame politically correct thinking that says you can’t single people out as constituting a greater threat. These lines are nothing more than a reminder of how stupid our elected officials are.
How should this job be done?
Is there anyone with a smarter plan?
I have no desire to fly again until the rapture!
“Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.” - Benjamin Franklin
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The illegal searches and seizures performed by the TSA are clearly unconstitutional. The TSA needs to be disbanded and the responsibility for airport/airline safety returned to the airlines. The airlines should then implement security measures modeled after Israel’s (El-Al) methodologies. As a side note, I really believe that most of the TSA personnel are “on the lower half of the bell curve” and actually get a perverse sense of power and pleasure from abusing travelers.
I’m not kidding. Send this to the Trump Administration. It happened on their watch. Send this to the Oval Office Staff itself. We need to see if they will really respond to us.
I loathe George W. Bush with a blood passion for turning this fascist monster on us. My worst interaction with them came in 2006 at Chicago Midway. They pulled me out of line but stopped short of groping my crotch, all the while our headdressed friends skated right through. People were saying, “What did he do?” My daughter said, “I honestly have no idea. Must be their time to hassle somebody.”
Ironically, my best interaction was in Phoenix. I got waved through to the easy search line because I was wearing a Green Bay Packer shirt and the TSA guy was from Wisconsin.
Sorry you went through that, Gina.
As you may know, we are forced to stand inside it for several seconds with our arms held up as if we're common criminals
In truth, no one is required to go through the backscatter machine. The traveler can always opt out. I had a colleague who was afraid of radiation, and he always opted out. And I had to opt out a few time because of an injury that make the 'pose' impossible to accomplish. I explained nicely, and they were always quick to civilly and professionally accommodate me.
But the story does make one good point. You show up at the checkpoint with an attitude, and you are likely to get special treatment.
The last I checked, they're not mind-readers. My attitude was inside my mind as I quietly stood in line, so I'm not sure what you're talking about there, Par.
“Is there anyone with a smarter plan?”
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Israel.
This doesn’t have to be if we used profiling. This just enrages citizens and wastes resources. But the public and airlines put up with it in the name political correctness. I refuse to participate and will not fly or darken the door of the looney bin aka airport.
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