TSA Agent Confession

Politico ^ | 1/31/2014 | Jason Edward Harrington

[12th_Monkey]

My pained relationship with government security had started three years earlier. I had just returned to Chicago to finish my bachelor’s degree after a two-year stint in Florida. I needed a job to help pay my way through school, and the TSA’s call-back was the first one I received. It was just a temporary thing, I told myself—side income for a year or two as I worked toward a degree in creative writing. It wasn’t like a recession would come along and lock me into the job or anything.

It was May 2007. I was living with a bohemian set on Chicago’s north side, a crowd ranging from Foucault-fixated college kids to middle-aged Bukowski-bred alcoholics. We drank and talked politics on the balcony in the evenings, pausing only to sneer at hipsters strumming back-porch Beatles sing-a-longs. By night, I took part in barbed criticism of U.S foreign policy; by day, I spent eight hours at O’Hare in a federal uniform, solemnly carrying out orders passed down from headquarters.

I hated it from the beginning. It was a job that had me patting down the crotches of children, the elderly and even infants as part of the post-9/11 airport security show. I confiscated jars of homemade apple butter on the pretense that they could pose threats to national security. I was even required to confiscate nail clippers from airline pilots—the implied logic being that pilots could use the nail clippers to hijack the very planes they were flying.

(please see article at the link)

[12th_Monkey]

Long read. I know this subject has been flogged to death, but I thought it was pretty good. Let me know what you think

[equaviator]

” We drank and talked politics on the balcony in the evenings, pausing only to sneer at hipsters strumming back-porch Beatles sing-a-longs”

Beatles beat Pete Seger (RIP)

[musicman]

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[relictele]

I thnk John Pistole should be horsewhipped for openers.

[lightman]

[zeugma]

If I were a manager I’d toss any resume with “TSA” on it in the circular file. Why would I want someone who would participate in that to work for or with me?

[bigbob]

Pretty much confirms what we suspected. Moreover, it shows how government works at most every level — for example the Wisconsin teacher who was fired for watching hardcore porn at school, then reinstated by a liberal judge. The facts now coming forth show support from fellow teachers, male AND female,attempts to minimize and excuse his horrific behavior, all because he’s a union brother. Tell me that public employee unions have one single purpose in today’s world...

[zeugma]

Each day I had to look into the eyes of passengers in niqabs and thawbs undergoing full-body pat-downs, having been guilty of nothing besides holding passports from the wrong nations. As the son of a German-American mother and an African-American father who was born in the Jim Crow South, I can pass for Middle Eastern, so the glares directed at me felt particularly accusatory. The thought nagged at me that I was enabling the same government-sanctioned bigotry my father had fought so hard to escape.

The fellow writing the article apparently didn't learn anything from 9/11. No wonder he worked for TSA

[12th_Monkey]

Ha! Those are great

[12th_Monkey]

I hated flying before, now I hate it twice as much

[12th_Monkey]

Hmmmm, interesting... I would have to think twice about an ex-TSA people

[12th_Monkey]

I heard about case, pathetic indeed. Judge was probably sympathetic to public employee unions.

[12th_Monkey]

His statement gave me pause because I thought Muslims in their garb we given a pass...

So maybe that happened early on, not so sure if it’s true now

[Slings and Arrows]

Hmmmm, interesting... I would have to think twice about an ex-TSA people

There's always a reason NOT to hire someone...and it doesn't have to be the one you say it is.

[Slings and Arrows]

[12th_Monkey]

absolutly.

[12th_Monkey]

to grope or not to grope, that is the question....NOT, grope,poke,cup and stroke

[musicman]

Thanks!!

[verga]

BTTT

[KeyLargo]

Ex-Agent Confirms Worst Suspicions About TSA: “We Laugh At Naked Bodies And Take Apple Butter From Old Ladies”

http://weaselzippers.us/