[PA Engineer]

My wife just came back from Las Vegas Airport. I have been trying to get her to complain, but she will not. During the security check she was singled out by a black TSA agent and experienced almost 20 minutes of absolute harassment. My wife is a petite 47 year old blond MD. The incident involved the black male agent calling over a black female agent who joined in the verbal abuse. Her crime during the entire incident was a small bottle of hotel conditioner found in her carry on. The entire affair was racially motivated and this is not the first time it has happened. I have said over and over again the the Israelis have the right idea. You target the terrorist and you do not terrorize the passengers!

[Muzzle_em]

Hubby and I spent an entire day at the San Diego zoo and walking around to various other tourist attractions before catching an evening flight to Atlanta. When boarding our connecting flight in Atlanta, a BIG black female security agent harrassed me to remove my sneakers (this was during the time of random shoe removal). When I couldn’t get them off, due to swollen feet, she loudly informed me she would remove them for me! I gladly allowed her to do that, at which point she was greeted with a big whiff of sweaty feet!
I could tell she regretted that move, big time!

[RetiredArmy]

I have said over and over again the the Israelis have the right idea. You target the terrorist and you do not terrorize the passengers!

Exactly the reason I refuse to fly any longer. I refuse to go through that crap any longer. My wife's nephew is getting married in WA state in July. We were going to drive out, but decided not too. So, she is flying. I am staying home. I REFUSE to fly. I will not put up with that s*** any more. I went through it a few times and I refuse to pay money to be treated like scum by scum.

[bboop]

Well, what do you know? Black racism is alive and well, even in Las Vegas, even in the TSA. Will wonders never cease.

I wonder if this isn’t part of the equation with this soldier’s complaint? I wouldn’t be surprised. After all, here in Los Angeles (Long Beach), we give black folks the right to beat up white girls and yell racist slogans at them. It is a sort of White Folks’ Penance. Maybe the soldier didn’t know that is part of the America he is fighting for.

[happygrl]

Right after 9-11, when this nonsense started, I proposed that Middle Class folks like us need our own version of the Red Telephone Golfstream Club that the rich have, where they pay for a share to have theese private jets on call.

I called it "Air Club for Men (and Women)".

It would be like membership-only retail stores, only it would be an airline that we could join, be prescreened and have its own bio-related memebership ID.

If some airline doesn't go this route, the airlines are going to see a decline as people opt to arrange their lives (Via computer and other choices for transportation) in ways to avoid these insults.