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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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KEYWORDS: hillaryclinton; johnpistole; tsa; tsapervs
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To: re_tail20

Then quit.

Or at least find another job. I know that most probably can’t quit without doing that.

They should also get good legal consul, as they are going to be sued.


41 posted on 11/20/2010 5:23:54 PM PST by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: momtothree

TSA... Tweaking Somebody’s Anatomy
TSA... Touching Somebody’s Butt
TSA... TeatS and A$$
TSA... Travelers Shall be Accosted
TSA... They’re Screaming Again
TSA... Take Some Action
TSA... Threats n Sexual Assault
TSA... Those Stupid A-holes
TSA... The Swastika Act


42 posted on 11/20/2010 5:25:19 PM PST by TCH (DON'T BE AN "O-HOLE"! ... DEMAND YOUR STATE ENACT ITS SOVEREIGNTY !When a majority of the American)
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To: JRandomFreeper

Had that happen also.

I told one old boss “I am not going to jail for you.”

He got very mad, until he figured out I meant it.


43 posted on 11/20/2010 5:26:30 PM PST by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: Paladin2
If everyone enjoyed a few plates of Enchiladas,frijoles,re fried beans, and top it off with Hot Buffalo Chicken wings an hour before the flight this nonsense would end overnight.
44 posted on 11/20/2010 5:26:55 PM PST by samantha (God and Country. Thank a Soldier for your freedoms.)
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To: JRandomFreeper

Get up on the wrong side of the bed today, old FRiend?


45 posted on 11/20/2010 5:28:26 PM PST by Cyber Liberty (We conservatives will always lose elections as long as we allow the MSM to choose our candidates.)
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To: MWS

Yup.

And one wonders: How many TSA mouth-breathers find groping people so objectionable that they resigned? Apparently not many, if any at all, so it can’t be that bad. . .besides, if they resigned then THEY have to be groped when they fly and they don’t want that.


46 posted on 11/20/2010 5:28:44 PM PST by Hulka
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To: re_tail20

47 posted on 11/20/2010 5:29:02 PM PST by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
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To: Thank You Rush

Post 46.


48 posted on 11/20/2010 5:29:37 PM PST by Hulka
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To: re_tail20

49 posted on 11/20/2010 5:30:11 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Not under the influence of Hope-nosis.)
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To: neutrino
"Go ahead Terrace! Pat me down!"


50 posted on 11/20/2010 5:30:14 PM PST by mylife (Opinions $1 Half baked 50c)
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To: mylife

I just don’t believe they are all suffering. The petty tyrant who treated me as a racist oppressor because he was black and I was Norwegian, and forced me to throw away my yogurt as I entered, was really enjoying his bit of power that morning. I’ve noticed the same attitude at DMV, which I avoid like the plague.


51 posted on 11/20/2010 5:30:39 PM PST by bboop (Stealth Tutor)
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To: UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide

These scanners and subsequent gropings will do nothing to stop a bomber from blowing up a plane.

Exactly how many bombers has the TSA stopped in the last 9 years?

None, they’ve been stopped by passengers.


52 posted on 11/20/2010 5:31:20 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Ann Archy

I honestly dont see how they can keep this thing going.
People are pissed.


53 posted on 11/20/2010 5:31:44 PM PST by mylife (Opinions $1 Half baked 50c)
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To: ErnBatavia

If I were to be singled out for the pat down (I won’t go through the irradiating pornometer)I think I would say a few things loudly about how much I’m enjoying it and how good he is and then...”Wait, wait...I know you. I saw you at the leather bar on ____after the Pride Parade last June. You looked really hot in that puce spandex speedo and pink boa. of course, you had (or didn’t have) a mustache then.” As he looks chagrined or starts denying it, I’d continue...”Oh come on. This is 2010. You can be out and proud. It’s about time the people you work with know that you’re gay. Look, I have to be out of town for awhile, but give me your number so I can call you when I get back. But, you’ll have to buy me dinner next time to get to 3rd base.”


54 posted on 11/20/2010 5:31:51 PM PST by achilles2000 ("I'll agree to save the whales as long as we can deport the liberals")
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To: re_tail20

My heart breaks. My experience with these people has involved harassment. They are despicable pigs.


55 posted on 11/20/2010 5:32:41 PM PST by Luke21
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To: neutrino
My Hubby and I saw the pictures and thought the same as you. My Brothers could clear the entire Airport and still have reserves of gas left. LOL! They might counter this tactic by making passengers mainline “Beano” Hah!
56 posted on 11/20/2010 5:33:10 PM PST by samantha (God and Country. Thank a Soldier for your freedoms.)
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To: re_tail20

I am sure the Nazi guards said the same thing as they murdered Jews and Christians and other “undesirables”.


57 posted on 11/20/2010 5:33:16 PM PST by CodeToad (Islam needs to be banned in the US and treated as a criminal enterprise.)
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To: hole_n_one

thats not a real TSA agent, cause I’ve never seen one even close to that pretty.


58 posted on 11/20/2010 5:33:41 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Aglooka
The real reason for the “groping” is to get people to accept the scanners. Then once the population accepts the see-through-the-clothes scanners at the airport they will start rolling them out and train stations, bus terminals, stadiums and everywhere else. We are well on track to becoming a total surveillance society.

Can't the government just put something in the water to make use glow?

59 posted on 11/20/2010 5:35:05 PM PST by kbennkc (For those who have fought for it freedom has a flavor the protected will never know .F Trp 8th Cav)
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To: bboop

No, but as some one pointed out up stream, this will result in suffering for the moral ones, who will eventually quit.
Leaving the place full of brownshirts and pervs.


60 posted on 11/20/2010 5:35:05 PM PST by mylife (Opinions $1 Half baked 50c)
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