I feel badly for the young lady who had a horrible experience at the hands of a few TSA agents. Hopefully this is a very isolated incident and perhaps there may be more to this story that we are getting. With that said, let me pass the following experience to you readers.
My wife, myself and two other couples (our friends) recently took an extended cruise to Alaska which required traveling on very crowded flights to Vancouver, CA and from Anchorage, AK. Obviously both of the flights to and from our destinations required going through TSA screening. (By the way, my wife is handicapped and required a wheel chair to travel through each airport. She has multiple “metal” parts in her body due to various prior operations). I can truthfully say that the TSA agents that screened ourselves and our friends were HIGHLY PROFESSIONAL and treated all of us with the utmost respect and courtesy. At NO TIME did any of those agents disrespect anyone.
While in Anchorage, we had occasion visit a federal building with security guards at the entrances. Once again, the agents (who happened to be black men) were very courteous and professional and treated us with highest respect and courtesy.
There are thousands of TSA employees and it is highly unfortunate that the “good” employees are blamed for the acts of but a few.
I appreciate your experience and I, too, have encountered some lovely gentleman here at our airport in Pittsburgh. They’ve been kind to my young daughter and my pregnant self when traveling. However, they seem the exception rather than the norm. My experiences at every other airport have been less than pleasant.
I never singled out TSA employees. I’m saying that there are far worse things in the world than racism.
“There are thousands of TSA employees and it is highly unfortunate that the “good” employees are blamed for the acts of but a few.”
The TSA’s employee pool of sociopaths and deadwood is irredeemable.
Thank you. I travel internationally quite a bit and I haven’t experienced any problems. We’ve got TSA Pre-check and that really speeds things up, but it seems that my wife is always pulled out for additional screening. Even with that it’s always been courteous and professional. We came back through Los Angeles from Singapore in April and the customs agent actually smiled and said “welcome home”. That’s kind of nice after sitting in planes or airports for 20 hours.
I have absolutely no respect for the so called “good TSA Agents”. Only animosity and scorn. No matter how “good” you are at your job or how honest or polite, if you are willing to work in a job that violates people’s God given constitutional rights, then you are NOT good.
Sorry, no. There are NO good TSA agents. Only bad and worse.