Jaunted

Hey, I've got an idea for how the TSA can improve its image... they can keep their filthy molesting hands off our genitals! Nah, that would make too much sense

Let's just get rid of the TSA, they serve no purpose anyways (other than annoying the shit out of me every time I fly). No one ruins my good mood faster than the dumbass antics of the TSA.

I feel no safer after going through a TSA security checkpoint

I was pleased to hear Senators Leahy and Hatch openly state what most Americans already knew, that the current TSA practices are abusive, arbitrary, unduly invasive and unwarranted by the realities. Both Senators deserve to be commended for having the political courage to state this obvious shortcoming and demand that TSA begin acting responsibly in its interaction with everyday citizens. We cannot allow any agency to dictate policy in defiance of the citizens and their elected officials. TSA has been plagued scores of sensational reports of theft, sex crimes, murder, drug trafficking, security failures and passenger abuse including one in Maryland last week for child pornography. In the last nine months fifty-six screeners have been arrested, an average of one every six days, Of these arrests, four screeners have been charged with smuggling drugs through security the last six months. These drugs could just as well have been weapons or explosives carried aboard by a terrorist or intentionally planted in passenger's baggage. The nine TSA screeners arrested for child sex crimes this year could also have been coerced by terrorists into cooperating in a smuggling effort. This is not only a national disgrace but also very dangerous, since these employees become vulnerable to extortion and bribery by terrorist groups, placing passengers at great risk. The level of criminal activity in TSA indicates a significant deficiency in their hiring practices and jeopardizes everyone who flies. Congress should investigate this agency and initiate the necessary reforms as soon as possible. The traveling public and airline industry can't afford to wait while TSA gains the needed skills through a series of mistakes and crimes by their personnel. TSA Crimes & Abuses http://www.travelunderground.org/index.php?threads/master-lists-of-tsa-abuses-crimes.317/

It's important to note that in your Incident One, the items were in the checked baggage and posed exactly ZERO risk to airline safety. None. Nada. Zilch. This particular idiot flyer did not break any TSA rule or regulation. Instead, he violated New York City's weapons laws, which are technically not the responsibility of the TSA or the airlines. That he was arrested for such a violation shows that the Fourth Amendment is truly revoked when traveling by air.

TSA is nothing to passengers, compared with the bunch at Heathrow. Where is the course they've attended? And who was responsible for it?

Nobody in here? Not one of you happened to experience the ill-will and the evil ways of the Heathrow bunch?

Here's your comment under the article about yelling: "Obviously the antics of morons and lunatics don't justify TSA's incompetence. But weekly passenger insanity does kind of put what their agents are going through into perspective". May I be so bold as to ask: What perspective? Could Heathrow travellers and others be valued for due respect, so that the uniformed personnel behaved themselves - finally, instead of treating people as if they were criminals? There woulde be less yelling.