I’ve had three TSA agents get in my face.
I reported all three to their supervisors.
They probably got promotions.
I had one who wanted to do the explosives swab on my laptop bag for some reason. I asked him to change gloves, he reached into his pocket and pulled out a wad of gloves and some candy wrappers. I asked for glove out of the box, he called his supervisor and said I was “hostile.”
The supervisor came over and asked what the problem was. I explained, they called the Airport Police over. The cop asked what the problem was and I explained, the TSA “officer” concurred. The cop told them to get gloves form the box. They tested it, it came back negative and threw my bag on the table. I asked the supervisor for their boss, some suit came over. I explained the situation and was told they couldn’t comment on how I was treated as the was “a classified procedure for scanning potentially explosive items” and walked off.
When encourtering the very rabid, rude TSA agent who has an attitude problem at the high end of the scale (we have ALL seen them and experienced them in cowered fear), and one who is clearly harassing both yourself and others around you, surreptitiously take a photo of the federal violator of our Rights, with the sound function off of your cell phone camera. Then upon approaching this cog in the wheel rentacop, take note of, commit to memory BUT NOT PAPER, and once clear of Reichsstatzione Checkpoint, write down that full name immediately, time, date and nature of inicident. Then, finally, combine the two. There is a thing called the Internet. Offshore the website overseas in a country and under a DNS for a nation which does not have any kind of bilatral treaty with the USA on these matters. Seizer people power bacck! Let them know in crystal clear terms they will be publicly exposed by name and face by a traveling public who will not take this power harassment anymore. That will then serve as a lesson to others to "walk it back, and take it down a few notches and get off their Gestapo high horses" when dealing with the average public whose only crime is to want to get from point A to point B in the domestic USA. Isn't that still a right? The right of free passage?