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TotalSexualAssault...we're a real pain in your ass.

Thats my suggested motto for them, think they'd use it?

Reverenddel wrote:As someone who just went thru TSA twice in the past 6 days. The only two things that irritated me were taking EVERYTHING out of my pockets, and REMOVING MY SHOES!? (shakes head)

However, they were polite, and even humor-filled at one point.

When they found my pocket flashlight, the TSA agent goes, "WHEW! Thought you were carrying lipstick for a second."

I think they realize that they're views as gigantic pains in the keister, and some TSA Agents are a tad over-zealous. Like the ones testing soft drinks that were purchases in the concourse for "alternative substances"

Um Hello!?!? You cannot carry a soft drink thru security, so how the hell do you think it got in her hand? She bought it in the concourse!

Overall though, I think they're trying to enforce whatever rules are put down upon them. So if we want to CHANGE these procedures, and rules, we need to REALLY press our lawmakers!

Well since the naked scanners and the prison pat downs have come out I have written my congressman and our State Senators about every 3 months. I am thinking of starting to write our state representatives and the governor one the same schedule seeing the bill that has come out in TX that is likely to pass later this week prohibiting the TSA from touching the private areas of citizens without probable cause. So far what I have gotten back from them is a "I am looking into it, and I will see what I can do" from Forbes a "we have to have balance here between a person's right to be free of sexual assault in the airports and security, and yes they need to be more polite as they touch your daughters private parts" (I inserted what is actually done in place of the euphemisms he used) from Warner and two off topic replies from Webb. I have called, I have written--and will keep doing so. It takes more than one person to do that though

Kreutz wrote:TotalSexualAssault...we're a real pain in your ass.

Thats my suggested motto for them, think they'd use it?