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TSA Agents Absolutely Hate New Pat Downs, Find Them Disgusting And Morale Breaking
TechDirt ^ | Nov. 19, 2010 | Mike Masnick

Posted on 11/20/2010 5:00:30 PM PST by re_tail20

One of the common themes that people keep mentioning in talking about the new TSA pat down procedures is that those involved must "enjoy" the groping they're giving people. But, of course, most TSA agents are normal every day people who don't actually want to grope random people. Chris Tolles points us to a post from BoardingArea.com, who reached out to some TSA agents and found that many TSA agents hate the new rules and find it to be sapping morale to have to grope passengers. Some of it appears to be the verbal abuse they're getting from travelers, but some of it is just the fact that they have to keep touching people they'd rather not touch in that way:

"It is not comfortable to come to work knowing full well that my hands will be feeling another man’s private parts, their butt, their inner thigh. Even worse is having to try and feel inside the flab rolls of obese passengers and we seem to get a lot of obese passengers!"

Of course, it does seem like a lot of the "morale" part comes from everyone accusing them of molesting them. I recognize, they're not the ones making policy, but many of the people being groped do feel violated and it's not surprising that many of them speak out.

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KEYWORDS: hillaryclinton; johnpistole; tsa; tsapervs
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1 posted on 11/20/2010 5:00:38 PM PST by re_tail20
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To: re_tail20

But in order to keep their jobs, these Mensa members will adjust their sensitivities and invade the citizens.


2 posted on 11/20/2010 5:03:15 PM PST by lurk
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To: re_tail20
So. refuse? not

sell-outs

3 posted on 11/20/2010 5:03:24 PM PST by Cyber Ninja (Live and Let Live; is not working...)
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To: re_tail20
Some of it appears to be the verbal abuse they're getting from travelers

Keep it up, travelers....drive 'em to the point where they go on strike. Phock 'em.

4 posted on 11/20/2010 5:03:48 PM PST by ErnBatavia (It's not the Obama Administration....it's the "Obama Regime".)
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To: re_tail20

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-6L_hT3QtQ


5 posted on 11/20/2010 5:04:19 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Rebellion is brewing!! Nuke the corrupt commie bastards to HELL!!)
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To: re_tail20

And what about the travelers who enjoy being groped?

You don’t hear much discussion of that either, do you?


6 posted on 11/20/2010 5:04:46 PM PST by Redbob (W.W.J.B.D.: "What Would Jack Bauer Do?")
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To: re_tail20


Even worse is having to try and feel inside the flab rolls of obese passengers and we seem to get a lot of obese passengers!"
7 posted on 11/20/2010 5:05:06 PM PST by Brad’s Gramma (Here's a thought!! Donate to the website you are on RIGHT NOW!! .... *waves hi to DS*)
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To: re_tail20

Wait till we start hearing about people going TSA on a work place


8 posted on 11/20/2010 5:05:27 PM PST by al baby (Hi Mom REMEMBER FREE REPUBLIC IN YOUR WILL. I DID)
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To: re_tail20

Sure


9 posted on 11/20/2010 5:05:39 PM PST by ColdOne (Again Who Knew MSNBC has "standards and policies?")
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To: re_tail20


Just following orders?
10 posted on 11/20/2010 5:05:47 PM PST by jimbo123
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To: cizinec

I sorta borrowed the pic you posted on another thread.


11 posted on 11/20/2010 5:06:10 PM PST by Brad’s Gramma (Here's a thought!! Donate to the website you are on RIGHT NOW!! .... *waves hi to DS*)
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To: re_tail20

Awww, poor TSA agents. They have to feel up F-A-T people and they are getting a lot of FAT people. Sorry we all can’t be your idea of fit and glamorous. Sorry you have to feel up OLD people. I guess OLD, FAT people are the worst. Then there are the ones with PROSTHETICS. Cry me a river TSA.


12 posted on 11/20/2010 5:06:11 PM PST by momtothree
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To: ErnBatavia

Exactly! The enemy has revealed its weak point - now we know where to attack!


13 posted on 11/20/2010 5:06:23 PM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Redbob

>>>And what about the travelers who enjoy being groped?

>>>You don’t hear much discussion of that either, do you?

Only Gloria Allred... Search the forum here, you’ll find it.


14 posted on 11/20/2010 5:07:52 PM PST by Keith in Iowa (FR Class of 1998 | TV News is an oxymoron. | MSNBC = Moonbats Spouting Nothing But Crap.)
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To: re_tail20; All

After a pat down, this poor guy was left with wet pants...from his urine:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40291856/ns/travel-news


15 posted on 11/20/2010 5:08:00 PM PST by toldyou (Even if the voices aren't real they have some pretty good ideas.)
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To: re_tail20

TSA is already backpedaling on this BS.

Lets hang this policy around the Democrats collective necks!


16 posted on 11/20/2010 5:08:09 PM PST by mylife (Opinions $1 Half baked 50c)
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To: re_tail20
Good. Now, I understand that the average TSA agent didn't sign up to administer the heavy-handed pat-down policy that has recently been put into place by 0. I'll even give them the benefit of the doubt and say that the average person on the ground genuinely wants to ensure the safety of this country. With that said, however, we need to ensure that opt-out of the scanners and force them to do as many of these pat downs as possible until the government ditches this ridiculous policy of focusing its searches on ordinary Americans instead of foreign nationals from a particular region of the world that would like to see us dead.

Until that time, we make it as uncomfortable for them as possible. This has all just been another excuse for 0 to demonstrate his hatred for the American people. That TSA agents are starting to rebel over this means that we are winning.

Focus on searching the terrorists. Leave the American people and our children alone.

17 posted on 11/20/2010 5:08:12 PM PST by MWS
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To: re_tail20

It’s time to see this from a different perspective and I don’t believe that anyone in that job enjoys the new procedures. Others have been too busy blaming the screeners when it’s clear they didn’t make up the new rules. This whole fiasco needs to be laid at the feet of the imbeciles in Washington....leave the screeners out of it. There will be some idiots abusing their positions but isn’t that true in ANY occupation? We will always have dolts among us.


18 posted on 11/20/2010 5:08:29 PM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: re_tail20
a lot of the "morale" part comes from everyone accusing them of molesting them

Well, they are molesting them.

19 posted on 11/20/2010 5:08:52 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate: Republicans freed the slaves Month.)
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To: Brad's Gramma

Why is a Japanese Sumo wrestler working the counter at an airport?


20 posted on 11/20/2010 5:09:13 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. ~Mencken)
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