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TSA workers face verbal abuse from travelers
MSNBC.com ^ | November 22, 2010 | Harriet Baskas

Posted on 11/22/2010 3:02:11 PM PST by Virginia Ridgerunner

Airline passengers aren’t the only ones complaining about the Transportation Security Administration’s new enhanced security procedures. Many TSA employees aren’t too happy, either.

The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), the union that represents TSA workers, is urging the TSA to do more to protect its employees from abuse from airline passengers angry over the new security methods. The union reports that some members “have reported instances in which passengers have become angry, belligerent and even physical with TSOs (transportation security officers). In Indianapolis, for example, a TSO was punched by a passenger who didn’t like the new screening process,” the union said in a Nov. 17 statement posted on its website.

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KEYWORDS: security; strip; tsa; tsapervs
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Ah, now the TSO unions are complaining mightily to TSA/DHS HQs...this might be interesting to watch.
1 posted on 11/22/2010 3:02:15 PM PST by Virginia Ridgerunner
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they know that any resulting trails for assaulting TSA agents are going to be the subjects of jury nullification


2 posted on 11/22/2010 3:04:24 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

The war is about to start.


3 posted on 11/22/2010 3:04:30 PM PST by Logical me
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“Our concern is that the public not confuse the people implementing the policies with the people who developed the policies,” said Sharon Pinnock, the union's director of membership and organization.

Does the "we were only following orders" excuse still work?

4 posted on 11/22/2010 3:05:50 PM PST by Raycpa
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

The TSA agents deserve what they get. If they don’t like it, they can quit.


5 posted on 11/22/2010 3:06:59 PM PST by MichiganConservative (A government big enough to do unto the people you don't like will get to doing unto you soon enough.)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner
Here let me get your overpaid lard butt a wambulance.

Does everyone who gets paid by the TSA have to get a lard butt physical?

I've never seen a more unhealthy bunch 'cept for maybe in Walmart plus size aisle.

6 posted on 11/22/2010 3:09:26 PM PST by ninonitti
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

when times get tough...use the victim card


7 posted on 11/22/2010 3:09:47 PM PST by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

8 posted on 11/22/2010 3:09:50 PM PST by I see my hands (How's that ballot box working out for you?)
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“Our concern is that the public not confuse the people implementing the policies with the people who developed the policies,” said Sharon Pinnock, the union's director of membership and organization.

Since it's darned hard to get at the people who developed the policies, folks who want to hurt someone are going to attack the field agents.

This isn't, after all, a war where we all know it's the ENEMY COUNTRY at fault, not its individual soldiers who we simply hold as POWs.

The situation is far more personal than that. I'd imagine union officers, should these guys vote for union representation, will be held as accountable by angry members of the public at large.

Must be hell to be a 21st century VOPO.

9 posted on 11/22/2010 3:09:52 PM PST by muawiyah (GIT OUT THE WAY ~ REPUBLICANS COMIN' THROUGH)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

Sic semper tyrannis.

Doesn’t matter if you’re a chief or a brave.


10 posted on 11/22/2010 3:10:48 PM PST by relictele
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner
Wear this:


11 posted on 11/22/2010 3:12:46 PM PST by I see my hands (How's that ballot box working out for you?)
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The TSA agents deserve what they get. If they don’t like it, they can quit.

Their previous jobs at Jack-In-The-Box have already been filled.

12 posted on 11/22/2010 3:12:55 PM PST by PGR88
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To: Logical me
The war is about to start.

Obama will soon authorize the TSA feeler-uppers to carry arms. Then they become part of his civilian army ala the Brownshirts in Hitlers Germany. He promised.

13 posted on 11/22/2010 3:14:40 PM PST by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannolis. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Raycpa
“Our concern is that the public not confuse the people implementing the policies with the people who developed the policies,” said Sharon Pinnock, the union's director of membership and organization.

Does the "we were only following orders" excuse still work?

And here we thought that issue was settled at Nuremberg.

14 posted on 11/22/2010 3:15:16 PM PST by Eroteme
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“Our concern is that the public not confuse the people implementing the policies with the people who developed the policies,” said Sharon Pinnock, the union's director of membership and organization.

Let's clarify that: p/i"Our concern is that the public might punch the people feeling up their privates instead of punching the people who developed the policy of feeling up their privates and hiring other people to do it, and making it a fine of $11,000 to refuse to let them."

I don't think people are confused at all. Taking a job feeling up people's privates is a bad idea, even if your boss says it's okay. Because it's NOT OKAY.

15 posted on 11/22/2010 3:15:27 PM PST by Judith Anne (Holy Mary, Mother of God, please pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death.)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

16 posted on 11/22/2010 3:21:35 PM PST by lightman (Adjutorium nostrum (+) in nomine Domini)
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To: lightman
When the foreign occupier employed the phrase 'fundamentally transforming America' two years ago, that's precisely what he meant. Zer0 has no intention of going quietly.

Download or listen to this small audio file:
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17 posted on 11/22/2010 3:24:31 PM PST by BobP (The piss-stream media - Never to be watched again in my house)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

Americans against Americans. The terrorists have won.


18 posted on 11/22/2010 3:25:19 PM PST by LiberConservative
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

Calling all citizens that can pass gas at will to sign up for airport security checks. Make sure to fill up on beans a brussel sprouts the night before.


19 posted on 11/22/2010 3:29:55 PM PST by jetson
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner; a fool in paradise

20 posted on 11/22/2010 3:29:55 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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