Wow, judge much?????
Well glad you have the flexibility to do that—you are a better parent than all of us complaining that we don’t have options...you have the option skip travel, devote a week to roundtrip driving, or eat cost of airline tickets. Lucky you....You are a better parent than many, tho you are simply opting out rather than standing up and saying this is wrong.....allowing the TSA To USURP our rights......You made a lot of assumptions...
As I tried to exlain, it is not always convenience..There is safety—driving across snow covered mountains on a 2,000+ mile trip in December...hope for good weather, dependable traqnsportaqtion, money—some of us simply don’t have the resources to eat previously purchased tickets then plan same trip driving which requires several days of hotels and meals...glad you don’t have to work or can take an extra week off for driving...
We had a family funeral last year and son could not find a flight so sadly he had to miss it; only way daughter could attend grandmother’s funeral was to fly...uh oh, bad parent...
So where do you draw the line?
Do I tell my daughter she cannot travel with her team to train this Christmas? Do I drive her myself? I just eat the cost of the ticket and have to find 6 days to drive her there and back....my budget is not that flexible at Christmas....So I am bad parent? I don’t think so.
How about we end the corruption NOW. This needs to be stopped. No more scanners should be purchased and I am calling House Reps to call for defunding them....What are you doing besides opting out.
BTW, my children are adults, so I am not putting my children up to anything....but i am still concerned about their privacy rights....I don’t think any parent whose children are flying at ANY age thinks they are putting their children out there as gropable and expendable if their kids have to fly—they are not offering up their children...
We are all caught in a hornets nest in this fiasco.
Thank you.
You are so right. This whole thing has me so teed off--sorry I came on so strong. I apologize. This TSA groping is WAY over the line by any reasonable measure. I think that if we take a stand against it and refuse to be publicly groped...to allow our kids to be publicly groped...it's the reasonable basic response to such a gross travesty of basic human dignity. These TSA thugs, ObaMAO, and Nazipolitano are betting on the American public to just shut up and take our gropes and naked imaging. The ONLY thing they understand is for us to refuse. So we have to. *I* choose to refuse. The Airlines and Congress need to step in...and all they understand is the power of money, and the consequences of the public's refusal to comply. Starve the beast.
Sorry I came on so strong. I just think that fondling kids crosses an uncrossable basic, clear line. No gray zone of acceptance or rationalization. ObaMAO would probably be happy to see FReepers butt heads...while he puts his feet up in AF1 and openly entertains his desire to stop by and see Hugo on his way "home." Have a good rest-of-the afternoon.