[FryingPan101]

This particular episode disturbs me greatly. I don't know how to feel anymore. You think...well..what if? We were in Atlanta two weeks ago when this same thing happened to the gentleman ahead of us. He was white, about 70, bald, glasses, overweight, wearing a business suit. When he got on the Delta flight we were on, he was openly weeping. His anger was spilling out. He could only manage an "F" over and over again. I watch my husband, white, sixty, always in a suit and tie, undergo this same kind of scrutiny time after time when we travel and I wonder when he might snap and say something....and suffer the consequences. Many of the inspectors are in your face types and I just don't get the attitude.

[snopercod]

This particular episode disturbs me greatly.

Me too. I won't fly on the airlines any more unless a family member dies and I have to attend the funeral. Maybe not even then.

This is AMERICA, dammit!

[xJones]

Many of the inspectors are in your face types and I just don't get the attitude.

Many of these minimun-wage paid yahoos just like harassing people, particularly white. Just look, when have you seen a person of any other color so harrassed, including middle easterners?

Willie, you're an honest man. What is your opinion?

[AFreeBird]

Many of the inspectors are in your face types and I just don't get the attitude.

For the most part - low IQ, low wage, suddenly give great power over people many probably hate (older, successful, white or whaever race they have a beef with, etc.). I even seen younger (and sometimes older) male security screeners take extra time scrutinizing the documents papers of attractive young ladies. Security, (and common sense) it sometimes seems is, secondary.

Power is where the attitude comes from, pure and simple.