MineralMan wrote:
Depends on your definition of "hassling"…Strip-seasrching my neighbor's five month-old grandson was hassling.
Attempting to confiscate Joe Foss' Medal of Honor which he received for heroism in the skies over Guadalcanal was hassling.
Bingo. Fly El Al, especially in or out of Israel, and you'll understand what a real screening is.
But their screening is principally talking to their customers first and only giving a shake-down to those they deem suspicious.
There's no random and sensless humiliation of passengers based on the SWAG (scientific wild-assed guess) system.
"Strip-seasrching my neighbor's five month-old grandson was hassling.
Attempting to confiscate Joe Foss' Medal of Honor which he received for heroism in the skies over Guadalcanal was hassling.
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If that strip search actually happened, which I doubt, you may well be right. And certainly the Medal of Honor incident was wrong, but I believe that happened pre-TSA, although I could be wrong. Such things are the exception, though. I don't base my opinions on individual incidents, when millions of people appear to be flying just fine and not having these problems.