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Ummmmm..Maybe I'll just let the story speak for itself......... It does bring up some questions though.......

Great, and these are the guys entrusted as "the last line of defense against a terrorist" as they like to tout themselves. We are doomed .

mamabearCali wrote:Great, and these are the guys entrusted as "the last line of defense against a terrorist" as they like to tout themselves. We are doomed .

Bah. On a good day, they might be the last line of defense against long lines to use the airplane's facilities.

Whatever any of us as individuals may think about the target of the TSA agent's "humor", that is seriously unprofessional behavior...but, then again, it is the TSA...at minimum the actual agent who did that should be officially reprimanded and lose some work time...but, I know they are unionized and nothing will happen to the miscreant at all...

Dave2 wrote:

mamabearCali wrote:Great, and these are the guys entrusted as "the last line of defense against a terrorist" as they like to tout themselves. We are doomed .

Bah. On a good day, they might be the last line of defense against long lines to use the airplane's facilities.

Oh I don't think they are in any way useful. To be kind I would say that they are inept, obtuse, and irresponsible in regard to the threats that we face. They search for objects that could conceivably be used in the commission of a crime instead of searching for those who wish to commit terrorism. They spend their time terrorizing people who are obviously not a threat and do nothing to protect us from those that are. They just claim that the tactics they use are because they are the "last line of defense..." BALONEY!

I agree with the comment posted on the original article.

YepISaidThat
9:43 PM EDT
Oct 24, 2011
Always a little suspicious when something like this happens to someone trying to get attention for their website.

Everyone is so eager to bash the TSA they might believe anything.

Heartland Patriot wrote:but, I know they are unionized and nothing will happen to the miscreant at all...

Since when?

VoiceofReason wrote:I agree with the comment posted on the original article.

YepISaidThat
9:43 PM EDT
Oct 24, 2011
Always a little suspicious when something like this happens to someone trying to get attention for their website.

Everyone is so eager to bash the TSA they might believe anything.

I wouldn't say I'm eager to bash the TSA, it's just that someone trying to get attention for their website has more credibility...

I gather the agent got a bad vibe...

sjfcontrol wrote:I gather the agent got a bad vibe...

Or a good one . . .

VoiceofReason wrote:I agree with the comment posted on the original article.

YepISaidThat
9:43 PM EDT
Oct 24, 2011
Always a little suspicious when something like this happens to someone trying to get attention for their website.

Everyone is so eager to bash the TSA they might believe anything.

Perhaps it is what the TSA already does/has done that makes just about anything said about them believable.

VoiceofReason wrote:I agree with the comment posted on the original article.

YepISaidThat
9:43 PM EDT
Oct 24, 2011
Always a little suspicious when something like this happens to someone trying to get attention for their website.

Everyone is so eager to bash the TSA they might believe anything.

If a TSA agent did this, it's immature at minimum... might be worthy of a reprimand, maybe firing.

OTOH, everyone KNOWS bags are subject to search. You might not like it, you might want to change it, but that's the way it is today.
If you're embarrassed by what is in your bag, consider leaving it home. Or... go whole hog and carry it on.

All the bashers are a bit too sensitive... like this is a big surprise...
Focus on the problem, TSA's government sanctioned invasion of privacy, not the symptom, some immature TSA agent.
TSA does not condone such behavior, assuming it actually took place.

OK this is going to be a long post.

I do not work for the TSA but they are now union. Having a union does not prevent an employee from being disciplined or fired. If an employee does something bad enough or shows poor performance over time, he/she can be suspended without pay or fired.

If and I repeat if a TSA employee did put that note in that woman’s luggage he/she should get a couple of weeks “on the street” without pay or fired outright. I believe I read that it was being investigated. Hopefully they will have video to prove one way or the other.

The job of the union is to prevent an employee from being disciplined because a supervisor suspects them of doing something, which is the way it should be. How would you like to be fired because you were suspected of doing something you did not do?

If it is found that no TSA employee wrote that note, it will not make the news. If she wrote it herself for publicity, everyone will go on blaming the TSA, and that my friend is one reason “someone trying to get attention for their website has more credibility”.

The TSA has problems but if you research some of the “reports” you will find that they have been twisted and overblown just like some reports of police brutality by someone that has a problem with authority. I am not saying they don’t sometimes over react (LEO,s and TSA) but a lot of the problems are caused by the person screaming the loudest.

We also need to differentiate between what the screener does and what he is told to do by bureaucratic (federal government calibre bureaucrats) management. If I have a problem with an employee I have them call the supervisor over and talk to them. As an employee, if I am told to do something and it is not illegal or unsafe I do it and that is what a union will tell an employee to do also.

We criticize people for believing everything the gun grabbers say and not thinking for themselves. Lets not be as bad as they are.

VoiceofReason wrote:If and I repeat if a TSA employee did put that note in that woman’s luggage he/she should get a couple of weeks “on the street” without pay or fired outright. I believe I read that it was being investigated. Hopefully they will have video to prove one way or the other.

Well, here is an update. They are firing the TSA employee.

TSA officer faces dismissal over 'get your freak on, girl' note in luggage

I liked what the girl had to say. A lot!

"It's easy to scapegoat one individual here, but the problem with the note is that it's representative of the bigger privacy intrusions that the U.S. government, through the TSA and other sources, levels every day," she wrote Wednesday after learning of the employee's suspension.

"As much as this is a funny and titillating story, when I put the note on Twitter for what I thought was a relatively limited audience, I was hoping it would open up a bigger conversation about privacy rights (or lack thereof) in post-9/11 America. It unfortunately hasn't done that, and instead has turned into a media circus," she said.

"The note was inappropriate, the agent in question acted unprofessionally when s/he put in my bag, there should be consequences and I'm glad the TSA takes these things seriously. But I get no satisfaction in hearing that someone may be in danger of losing their job over this. I would much prefer a look at why 'security' has been used to justify so many intrusions on our civil liberties, rather than fire a person who made a mistake."

Does anybody else see the irony in the statement...

"Like all federal employees, this individual is entitled to due process and protected by the Privacy Act.