CBS Pittsburgh reports on an interview they did with a local TSA agent who isn’t happy with the new security theater. There’s even an interview.
Passengers may be unhappy over long lines and enhanced security at the airports, but it’s a feeling shared by many at TSA.
“There’s a lot more tension both by officers, fellow officers, and passengers,” one Pittsburgh TSA officer told KDKA’s Jon Delano in an exclusive interview.
TSA officers don’t like the new aggressive pat-downs of passengers either.
“I truly feel that it is morally and ethically wrong to do it,” the agent noted. “This does not make flying safer. It’s just taking away American citizens rights.”
And all the horror stories at other airports only make things worse.
“Everybody shudders when they hear that because they know that is not what we’re supposed to be doing,” the agent said.
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Sneaky bastards! It’s a touchy-feely ad by the TSA. They aren’t denouncing the pat downs.. they are trying to guilt people into walking thru the nudie scanners. “Don’t opt out.. you never know what kind of pat down you’re going to get and we don’t want to do it.. so just walk thru this big useless deathray box here and move it along.”
Every time I see a pic of people waiting to go through the backscatters I can’t help but see the pics from WWII of the concentration camp victims lined up to board their trains.
I’ve been waiting for some agent to speak out against this, it’s bound to happen somewhere. Sadly, not today. Just guilting and scaring our already typically techno-phobic elderly into doing what they want.
I opted out of going to my mother’s funeral because I will not subject myself to this. You cannot take a train from CA to rural New York, and a bus will take 3 days ONE way. I have to either submit, or opt out. This whole atrocity was the final straw for me. I will be emigrating just as soon as I can.
The “enhanced pat-down” was designed as a sexual molestation, thus motivating passengers to go through the machines in my opinion (it doesn’t do anything for safety). If so it should be actionable, both against the agent pervert performing the molestation and against the TSA, the molesting agency.
I would applaud any TSA staff who left their job or went on strike due to these absurd regulations.
Going through the scanners is no guarantee that you won’t get a pat down. People are frequently pulled aside because of items in pockets, etc.
I would love to see them strike or start filing tons of internal complaints.
I strongly feel that every TSA agent who continues to collect a paycheck, every passenger who continues to fly, every government employee who does not speak out against these abusive measures, all share in the responsibility of the sexual molestation and radiation injury of all those who allow this to happen to themselves. They are also all guilty of limiting the mobility of the American public in general, and especially of those who are making the sacrifice to boycott until this abuse ends for good.
Sadly, Big Sis and most TSA agents fall into THIS category: https://bit.ly/9Wlghf