[Citizen X_Area 51]

Forgot to add, imagine them pawing through your clothing and other belongings with filthy gloves.

Ever think about the coats, sweaters and pocket items you plop into the the box that have had hundreds of shoes in them earlier?

[AmericanInTokyo]

Japanese biz travelers, with big bucks, have commented to me upon return to Tokyo how filthy and intrusive the whole U.S. process is these days (the other is the going through in socks, where others may have walked through earlier with their boots on caked with dried dog shit coming off in shavings on the bare TSA/Airport floor in the exact same area, in addition to one putting persona items in tubs which have had shoes in them earlier), and smacks of a police state. An unsanitary police state. Just dandy! /sarc....And this is coming from foreigners from friendly nations to America who hitherto have respected the United States and have enjoyed going there.

[T Minus Four]

That’s the last straw. I am not flying again unless it’s life or death. Even then I’ll think twice.