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TSA Agents Absolutely Hate New Pat Downs, Find Them Disgusting And Morale Breaking
TechDirt ^ | Nov. 19, 2010 | Mike Masnick

Posted on 11/20/2010 5:00:30 PM PST by re_tail20

One of the common themes that people keep mentioning in talking about the new TSA pat down procedures is that those involved must "enjoy" the groping they're giving people. But, of course, most TSA agents are normal every day people who don't actually want to grope random people. Chris Tolles points us to a post from BoardingArea.com, who reached out to some TSA agents and found that many TSA agents hate the new rules and find it to be sapping morale to have to grope passengers. Some of it appears to be the verbal abuse they're getting from travelers, but some of it is just the fact that they have to keep touching people they'd rather not touch in that way:

"It is not comfortable to come to work knowing full well that my hands will be feeling another man’s private parts, their butt, their inner thigh. Even worse is having to try and feel inside the flab rolls of obese passengers and we seem to get a lot of obese passengers!"

Of course, it does seem like a lot of the "morale" part comes from everyone accusing them of molesting them. I recognize, they're not the ones making policy, but many of the people being groped do feel violated and it's not surprising that many of them speak out.

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To: metmom
I live in NY.

Yark!

201 posted on 11/21/2010 7:28:50 AM PST by mylife (Opinions $1 Half baked 50c)
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To: AdmSmith; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; bigheadfred; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; Delacon; ...

The reason they do it? Because they have such a strong union.

The officials of their strong union work for the Obama Administration, and not for the union members.

Thanks re_tail20.


202 posted on 11/21/2010 1:56:16 PM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: re_tail20
Apparently not all of the TSP dislikes the new ‘rules’

Else why, after they wand this little guy six ways to Sunday - do the number of goons increase and then at time stamp 36 plus they have a group-grope - then the little boy is off camera but you can hear him pleading “Stop it! Stop it!” What are they doing to to him then?

This is far worse than the striping of the other boy. This need to get to DRUDGE and FOXnew and Hannity - and Hannity needs to be challenged not to ‘accept’ this new insanity by flying to Florida. He's a hypocrite if he does. Let him take a sleeper train - he can afford a roomy sleeper birth. Let him show he won't stand for putting his children in this peril

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gn9B6jkb4MU

203 posted on 11/21/2010 4:39:29 PM PST by maine-iac7 (We Stand Together of We Fall Apart)
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To: maine-iac7

Hannity is already a hypocrite. Didn’t you hear him compare going through the pornoscope with being seen naked by our spouses. He said that on last Tuesday’s show.


204 posted on 11/21/2010 4:42:17 PM PST by Luke21
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To: neutrino
yep - and a few “OOPsie. Sorry” Knee jerk to the jaw ‘involuntary reflex’ when they run their hands where they ain't ‘sposed to go.

Do a two-fer. Eat those beans before hand an let ‘er rip.

Good grief. I'm reading what I'm writing and thinking, never in my born days would I, now a great granny, ever think I'd think like this!

205 posted on 11/21/2010 4:50:23 PM PST by maine-iac7 (We Stand Together of We Fall Apart)
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To: Yardstick; All
You say “I sympathize with the TSA screeners. I travel quite a bit and have never gotten the impression that the screener took any pleasure from patting me down.”

Can you explain how these group-gropers of a little child - watch time stamp 36 on - are being forced to go this far?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gn9B6jkb4MU

You tell ME how what they did to this little boy - especially at time stamp 36 and on - protects us! How many goons got in on molesting this child? They are groping his private parts - and then the child is off camera and crying “stop it! stop it!” What's happening there?

206 posted on 11/21/2010 4:58:34 PM PST by maine-iac7 (We Stand Together of We Fall Apart)
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To: CodeToad

Obama Blue


207 posted on 11/21/2010 4:59:41 PM PST by maine-iac7 (We Stand Together of We Fall Apart)
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208 posted on 11/21/2010 4:59:55 PM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: relictele
AMEN!
209 posted on 11/21/2010 5:31:48 PM PST by maine-iac7 (We Stand Together of We Fall Apart)
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To: Onelifetogive
AFter all your lamenting for the poor “GLBT” not being given a choice to have a ‘other sex’ pat down - you end with “I call on the Obama Administration to implement these changes [to cater to the Gay Lesbian Bi Trans] immediately (or drop the enhanced pat-downs.)

I'm a bit more concerned about our innocent little children.

Justify this above the sensibilities of the GLBT’s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gn9B6jkb4MU

(especially take note of the group grope starting at time stamp .36 - and then after that, as he's out of camera range, what are they doing - as the poor little boy cries “Stop it! Stop it!”

Pardon me if I'm not sobbing for the sensibilities of your GLBT’s

This is a matter to ‘call on Obama ‘ to halt for ALL people. To make exceptions for favored groups is bullsh*t - live link next post

210 posted on 11/21/2010 5:51:04 PM PST by maine-iac7 (We Stand Together of We Fall Apart)
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To: Onelifetogive; All
AFter all your lamenting for the poor “GLBT” not being given a choice to have a ‘other sex’ pat down - you end with “I call on the Obama Administration to implement these changes [to cater to the Gay Lesbian Bi Trans] immediately (or drop the enhanced pat-downs.)

I'm a bit more concerned about our innocent little children.

Justify this above the sensibilities of the GLBT’s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gn9B6jkb4MU

(especially take note of the group grope starting at time stamp .36 - and then after that, as he's out of camera range, what are they doing - as the poor little boy cries “Stop it! Stop it!”

Pardon me if I'm not sobbing for the sensibilities of your GLBT’s

This is a matter to ‘call on Obama ‘ to halt for ALL people. To make exceptions for favored groups is bullsh*t - (PC be damned. )live link next post

211 posted on 11/21/2010 5:52:05 PM PST by maine-iac7 (We Stand Together of We Fall Apart)
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To: Onelifetogive

per my above post

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gn9B6jkb4MU


212 posted on 11/21/2010 5:53:10 PM PST by maine-iac7 (We Stand Together of We Fall Apart)
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To: HANG THE EXPENSE

>> You’re pissing in a fan if you think those pukes in washington gives a sh!t.

So it’s acceptable to turn on each other instead?

Yes, it takes willing minions to violate the providence God renders, but why not bring the challenge to where it belongs; the leadership that controls and perhaps enjoys this conflict of civility?


213 posted on 11/21/2010 6:01:25 PM PST by Gene Eric (Your Hope has been redistributed. Here's your Change.)
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To: School of Rational Thought; Yardstick

>> I sympathize with the TSA screeners...

>> What you are seeing ...

Should this contemptible policy continue, the decent agents will eventually be replaced by the eager and willing.

So then, what next?


214 posted on 11/21/2010 6:08:58 PM PST by Gene Eric (Your Hope has been redistributed. Here's your Change.)
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To: maine-iac7
I'm a bit more concerned about our innocent little children.

Sure, but the people who implemented this policy aren't.

But, if they are accused of bias against LGBT (a group I could not possibly care any less about), they get their lacy panties all in a wad.

215 posted on 11/21/2010 6:31:45 PM PST by Onelifetogive (I tweet, too...)
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To: re_tail20

Good, maybe they’ll all quit.


216 posted on 11/21/2010 6:45:29 PM PST by Future Snake Eater ("Get out of the boat and walk on the water with us!”--Sen. Joe Biden)
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To: maine-iac7

Thanks. I’ll have to add that next time I post it: “Obama Blue Shirts”.


217 posted on 11/21/2010 7:16:23 PM PST by CodeToad (Islam needs to be banned in the US and treated as a criminal enterprise.)
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To: Gene Eric

We are not dealing with rational people therefore I am all for getting in their faces.And just remember this the nazis marched Christians onto those boxcars right along with the Jews.Were these not fellow citizens at one time?I respect your position and it is a worthy one.I just cant go along with it cause there is a show down coming and there is no backing down.God help us please.


218 posted on 11/21/2010 7:44:19 PM PST by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life is tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: maine-iac7

I’m just not seeing the perverse groping that you are. The mother is there the whole time. No one seems upset. It just so happens that a kid was the one randomly picked to get a thorough screening. Is that ridiculous? Maybe. But that’s going to happen from time to time in a system that doesn’t profile. Is it abusive or sadistic? No. Is it the TSA agents’ fault? No.

And the kid doesn’t say “stop it” from off screen. He says “Thomas”, as in Thomas the Train. It might even be his mom saying it, not him.


219 posted on 11/21/2010 8:33:27 PM PST by Yardstick
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To: Yardstick

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You’d make a great block warden.
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220 posted on 11/21/2010 8:56:45 PM PST by maine-iac7 (We Stand Together of We Fall Apart)
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