I agree. Hey, everybody, don’t look over here!
The pilot’s complaints are legit. As a pilot he has a duty to his own safety to make this known. If one accepts that there is a NEED to do the naked scanners, the removal of belts, shoes and jewelry, the emptying of pockets, the banning of water bottles and carry on sodas, the banning of nail clippers and pocket knifes, the lewd abusive pat-downs — then clearly by that level of “security” his complaints about access via service doors, and to the plane loading areas of the tarmac have merit.
I don’t buy that all these are good procedure, but he recorded the NEEDED evidence well, and it fit the theory of security by which these harsh, debasing (and ineffective) methods are employed by the TSA. It showed they are deficient. It showed the frustration HE feels as a professional pilot, having to go through the ridiculously debasing “security” searches.
All these thing are best known to the public — to the OWNERS of this society. Us.
He did a great job.
My comments were directed to the boobs and idiots who sent a mini-Swat team of 6 to his house and took his gun, revoked his authority to carry it in the cockpit, and obviously called the local LOON of a sheriff to have his CCW pulled. Those actions were so STUPID that even if I was on THEIR SIDE I would call them idiotic. They turned a minor PR annoyance into a massive headache for them.