Re: Truly Disturbing TSA Recording

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Karl Auerbach <karl () cavebear com>
Date: April 2, 2009 6:45:15 PM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Cc: ip <ip () v2 listbox com>
Subject: Re: [IP] Truly Disturbing TSA Recording

David Farber wrote:

> "*Man detained and harassed at airport for carrying CASH!"*

Well, there's probably more to this than we are hearing.  But I was  
somewhat annoyed by the TSA folks' unwillingness to say yes or now  
whether the person was free to go (although by context it was pretty  
clear that he was under effective arrest.)

Last summer, before the elections, a TSA supervisor accused me of  
"suffering from Obamaism" because I asked why they were shouting  
(screaming actually) at my wife and myself in the middle of the JFK  
Air France ticket lobby.  (Turns out that they had no such rules and  
that, in fact, TSA has rules that explicitly let us do what we were  
doing.)

I filed a formal complaint and TSA's DC people excused their  
supervisor's clear attempt to engage in abusing a citizen on the basis  
of presumed political views on the grounds that the supervisor was  
making a joke.  Yeah, right.  The DC TSA complaint people never  
bothered to explain why it was OK for their people to make up their  
own secret local rules that violate overall TSA written procedures.

I was thinking of sending TSA a box load of brown shirts but I figured  
that the symbolism would be lost on them.

Congress and the President ought to consider dissolving the TSA and  
replacing it with a new protective agency that does not carry forth  
the abusive, self-justifying, and anti-citizen culture that is so  
deeply embedded into the TSA.

(It's pretty clear that local TSA management makes a *big*  
difference.  I've found the TSA at SFO to be much more reasonable, and  
no less effective, than at places where the TSA routinely uses  
arbitrary abuse and intimidation.)

                --karl--





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