TSA Enhanced Pat Downs : The Screeners Point Of View
In the past few weeks since the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) implemented its new “enhanced” pat down procedures there has been considerable backlash from the traveling public. This backlash has been loud and angry … but what is not heard or seen in the media is the quiet resentment of this new policy within the TSA.
A few days ago I contacted 20 TSA Transportation Security Officers (TSO) to ask their opinions of the new “enhanced” pat downs. Of the 20 I reached out to, 17 responded. All 17 who responded are at airports where the new “enhanced” pat down is in place … and the responses were all the same, that front line TSOs do not like the new pat downs and that they do not want to perform them. I expected most to not like the pat downs … but what I didn’t expect was that all 17 mentioned their morale being broken down.
Each of the 17 TSA TSOs that responded to me detailed their personal discomfort in conducting the new pat downs, with more than one stating that it is likely they are more uncomfortable performing the pat down than passengers are receiving them.
Some comments from these TSOs include:
“It is not comfortable to come to work knowing full well that my hands will be feeling another man’s private parts, their butt, their inner thigh. Even worse is having to try and feel inside the flab rolls of obese passengers and we seem to get a lot of obese passengers!”
“Do you think I want to go to work and place my hands between women’s legs and touch their breasts for a few hours? For starters, I am attracted to men, not women and if I was attracted to women, it would not be the large number of passengers I handle daily that have a problem understanding what personal hygiene is.”
“Yesterday a passenger told me to keep my hands off his penis or he’d scream. Is this how a 40 year old man in business attire acts? He’ll scream? My 3 year old can get away with saying he’ll scream, but a 40 something business man? I am a professional doing my job, whether I agree with this current policy or not, I am doing my job. I do not want to be here all day touching penises.”
“Being a TSO means often being verbally abused, you let the comments roll off and check the next person, however when a woman refuses the scanner then comes to me and tells me that she feels like I am molesting her, that is beyond verbal abuse. I asked the woman if she thought I like touching other women all day and she told me that I probably did or I wouldn’t be with the TSA. I just want to tell these people that I feel disgusted feeling other peoples private parts, but I cannot because I am a professional.”
“I was asked by some guy if I got excited touching scrotums at the airport and if it gave me a power thrill. I felt like vomiting when he asked that. This is not a turn on for me to touch me it is in fact a huge turn off. There is a big difference between how I pat passengers down and a molester molesting people.”
Aside from the issue of TSA TSOs being required to physically touch passengers in places they do not want to be touching them during the ‘enhanced’ pat down, morale is decreasing for front line TSOs, due in part to an increase in verbal abuse. Each of the 17 TSOs who responded to me detailed a new level of verbal abuse they are experiencing at work.
The TSA has experienced a high level of turn over since its inception, however its turnover rate has decreased recently. With this decrease in morale, caused directly by a change in TSA policy, it is likely to begin experiencing a higher than average turn over again … which will further decrease the effectiveness of airport security.
Some comments from these 17 TSOs include:
“Molester, pervert, disgusting, an embarrassment, creep. These are all words I have heard today at work describing me, said in my presence as I patted passengers down. These comments are painful and demoralizing, one day is bad enough, but I have to come back tomorrow, the next day and the day after that to keep hearing these comments. If something doesn’t change in the next two weeks I don’t know how much longer I can withstand this taunting. I go home and I cry. I am serving my country, I should not have to go home and cry after a day of honorably serving my country.”
“I come to work to do my job. It is not up to me to decide policy, it is up to me to carry out my duties as dictated by the Transportation Security Administration. When a person stands in front of me and calls me a pervert or accuses me of molesting them it is disheartening. People fail to understand that neither of us are happy about the intrusive pat down I am carrying out. I am polite, I am professional and while someone may not like what I have to carry out, they came to me because they choose not to utilize the alternative and less invasive method of security at my airport.”
“I served a tour in Afghanistan followed by a tour in Iraq. I have been hardened by war and in the past week I am slowly being broken by the constant diatribe of hateful comments being lobbed at me. While many just see a uniform with gloves feeling them for concealed items I am a person, I am a person who has feelings. I am a person who has served this country. I am a person who wants to continue serving his country. The constant run of hateful comments while I perform my job will break me down faster and harder than anything I encountered while in combat in the Army.”
“Do people know what a Nazi is? One can’t describe me as a Nazi because I am following a security procedure of designed to find prohibited items on a passenger’s body. A Nazi is someone with hatred and ignorance in their hearts, a person who carried out actions of execution and extermination of those based on their religion, origins or sexual preferences. I work to make travel safer, even if I do not agree with the current security procedures. Further more, I am Jewish and a TSA Transportation Security Officer, an American Patriot and to call me a Nazi is an offense beyond all other offenses.”
There are multiple sides to every story, and I think the point of view of those on the front lines of the TSA, those required to carry on the policy and procedures created by the TSA, are an import part of this story. I think those organizing efforts to change the TSA’s policy should also consider the impact to the TSA TSOs.
Rather than dehumanize the TSA TSOs, work with them, understand their views and opinions and work together to change the current TSA policies.
Happy Flying!
THE REASON THE PROCESS IS MADE MORE AND MORE CUMBERSOME, AND HIGHLY INEFFECTIVE-IS BECAUSE THE LAST CONSIDERATION IS THE FLYING PUBLIC AND REAL SAFETY—IT IS ALL ABOUT CONTRACTS, AND MONEY-MONEY-MONEY-MONEY-MONEY! THE COST OF THE BIG MACHINES CROWDS OUT THE PAY AND TRAINING RESOURCES ALLOCATED-AND THE PUBLIC HAS NOWHERE TO GO AFTER THE CONTRACT BUYS THEM—YA GONNA SELL THEM AT THE SWAP-MEET IF THEY FAIL?! NO-“LET’S FIRE ALL THE GUARDS!”–TYPICAL PUBLIC STUPIDITY! INSTEAD OF TRAINING THEM WITH DIVERSE FIREARMS, FLEXIBLE RESPONSES, SCENARIOS, AND MOSSAD INSTRUCTION TRAINING—-WE DEBATE PAT-DOWNS AND SCANNERS. I LIKE BIG ARMAMENTS ON THE READY-THEN-THERE IS AN OPTION TO UP THE QUALITY AND NUMBER OF PLAIN CLOTHES OBSERVERS IN THE AIRPORT VENUE—-NOT ALL DRESSED UP LIKE CLOWNS. MANY MORE OPTIONS FOLKS-BUT THE AIRLINES PEOPLE AREN’T TALKING BECAUSE-IT CUTS INTO THEIR PROFIT MARGINS!
I have ZERO sympathy for the TSA workers. They are not heroes. They are not “servants”. rather, they are willing accomplices to a dehumanizing act perpetuated on innocent people and treat them like criminals.
These nazi TSA workers are lame! Cry? Yeah, you ought to be crying! You ARE MOLESTERS and CRIMINALS, guilty of ASSAULT! Oh, and if you think that you are somehow redeemed by crying about this just being your job, think again. If you are doing something morally repugnant for the money, then you ARE a WHORE as well!
Pooooooooooooor babies. They are just following orders, right??
WWII was FULL of people doing heinous things, while “just following orders”. That is no excuse. If you are ordered to do something wrong, then you have a choice: 1. face the consequences of your actions; or 2. quit your job. If you choose to keep the job and follow the orders, then you DESERVE all the anger you will face.
I want to respond. Also, I am a TSA at the world’s busiest Airport. I didn’t read all the responses to your 17 officers that responded. But, 17 out of 65,000 officers is hardly all! Most of my co-workers feel we should have been doing better job of patting down along time ago. It’s so easy to repeat rumers & such. The women to have been hand cuffed & many other things, was on film. The film shows she did not report accurately what happened. For everyone that would like to see it & other videos, also wriiten accounts go to TSA’s website. That is if you want both sides of the story. In every job I know there are people that shouldn’t be in that line of work. I’m sure we have officers that should go. But it”s no different than any other place. Every place I know has some that should go. Walk a mile in our shoes. Then judge us. To those who think they can make us quit to put pressure on higher ups. I’ve got this to say. I will make it my personal goal to uplift all my fellow officers & that as we know it is a small LOUD few that are making the stink. Those of us that REALLY care about their safety as well as all others. Will do our best to keep EVERYONE safe. Come do our job for one week. Those that think we are rejects & ex welfare people, I have news for you that’s not the case. I have worked all my life.
Treason for $8/hr.
Most planes and airports are cleaned by crews full of illegal aliens and everyone knows it.
Most food is prepared by crews full of illegal aliens and everyone knows it.
Every terrorist on 9/11 had official US government paperwork and everyone should know it.
Osama was trained by the CIA to fight the USSR in Afghanistan.
Ronald Reagan called him a ‘Freedom Fighter’ on CSPAN.
The government creates our enemies as an excuse to crush working serfs.
By the numbers, US citizens are more likely to be killed by their own police than they are by terrorists.
Just people using their First Ammendment right to express their outrage over the Fed Govt taking away their Fourth Ammendment rights.
People don’t like being molested, so the molesters have to listen to all the complaints…unless you are advocating that our First Ammendment rights also be taken away.
If they don’t like it, find another job. Just like I’m trying to find another way to travel.
Sparkey
You work for the TSA and you think the TSA has 65,000 Transportation Security Officers? The TSA has 43,000 TSOs and has a financial cap at 43,000 TSOs. This is well known in the agency.
Happy Flying!
-Fish
My wife is TSA and she would like to think that doing her job might just save one of you whiners asses from being blown up.Think about that next time you want to bitch like a baby!
Poor TSA agents. Just doing their jobs.
if these gutless creeps had any self respect they would say they are not going to feel people up!
A note to all of you ignorant buffoons still attacking the individual officers in response to this article – think before speaking next time. These people had their jobs before this policy went into effect. They didn’t rush out and apply when they read about enhanced pat downs.
Many of these people have had their jobs for some time now, and use it to support their families. If you took the time to actually read, you’d see that they said at this rate they will quit their jobs…but not everyone is so fortunate to be able to just quit their job on a whim.
These new procedures suck for everyone involved – but some of you need to grow up and realize who the real target of your ire should be.
If those “professionals” don’t like what they are paid to be doing, they should bloody well go on strike.
And the pat down are, with pretty good confidence, not saving any asses from being blown up. Maybe a little less obscene behaviour from USA would.
Dear Americans,
How long you need to realize that those things, once started, are not going to be just about flying and airports? Random (or not) strip searches on the roads, ports, railroads – that’s just nearest future. TSA is not just about *air* transportation, right? Since you gave up the whole thing (constitution rights), you can’t expect any mercy. Do not. But don’t be afraid: there were many families living their lives happily under Hitler and Stalin. It’s just, well, different.
Sorry for your loss.
As a veteran, I am well aware that a person must not obey an illegal order, no matter whom issued it. To do so would seal your fate. To the workers who whine about having to molest people, throw your heads in a can of coffee and sniff, feeling penises, vagina’s, breasts, and anuses, are illegal and considered sex abuse. Stop acting foolish and making excuses for your perverted behaviors. If your feeling are being hurt by the abuse you are suffering, it is because you are AMERICANS, and you were taught about NAZI GERMANY, and you know in your heart what you were asked to do, and you are doing is immoral, illegal, sick, and perverted. You might as well quit your low paying job, and make real money as a prostitute.
On August 19, 2009, while speaking to the Kiwanis Club of Greater Columbus, Calley apologized for his role in the My Lai massacre. According to the Ledger-Enquirer[12] and a blog maintained by retired broadcast journalist Dick McMichael.[13] Calley said:
There is not a day that goes by that I do not feel remorse for what happened that day in My Lai. I feel remorse for the Vietnamese who were killed, for their families, for the American soldiers involved and their families. I am very sorry….If you are asking why I did not stand up to them when I was given the orders, I will have to say that I was a 2nd Lieutenant getting orders from my commander and I followed them—foolishly, I guess.
@Beueg:
You sure are a whiny little bitch, aren’t you?
You claim that airlines are private businesses and you claim that the government should be in charge of security for them. WTF is wrong with you? Let the private businesses take care of themselves. I see you’re another mind reader who claims to know what people who hate stupid TSA harassment will do in the event of another terrorist incident. Why don’t you hook up with Miss Cleo instead, you kook? Most of us are comfortable with the risks and want the TSA and their cowardly suck-up to get the fuck out of all our airports. Why don’t you and your unfortunate boyfriend hide under the bed where it’s safe? Explosives can be reliably detected with the wand and the puffer – there is no need for TSA sick fuck perverts and sex offenders to be peeking and groping passengers.
I am sorry, I simply have no simply for you when you say “I am just doing my job”. The Nazi”s said the same thing. When something is wrong it is wrong. YOU Make the choice, You live with your own actions. You are responsible.
When I had a job in which the company I worked for wanted me to design weapons..I quit. It is just wrong to use knowledge to make items that kill.
QUIT and only thing can any one believe your statement that you do not like it.
Think TSA guys are rude and abusive? Wait and see what Mica’s privatized, Blackwater=type thugs will do to you. This is absolutely NOT about protecting us from terrorism. A terrorist could strike in a thousand ways and places – “if” there actually were any terrorists out there. No, this is about control, and expect to see this spread. It is not limited to travel. Our beloved leaders are leading the way toward allowing big biz to take over our small farms; food supplies (govt. in bed with GMO companies); our access to vitamins and supplements; our internet access; our medical care and vaccinations; our savings and Soc. Sec., etc. We are up against an encroaching police state. The government is actively working against us.
I have to agree with the first response. No one is holding a gun to a TSA agent’s head whey they molest people (whether they enjoy it or not isn’t the issue). They can refuse to violate people. They can walk away.
On the other hand, if I want to exercise one of the ultimate acts of freedom: to fly–yet I refuse to allow myself–or my family–to be molested, then men with guns will pull me aside and threaten my freedom, and perhaps even take it away. Who’s the victim in that case? I can tell you, it’s not the TSA agents.
What’s truly disturbing is that sooner or later the majority of TSOs – those that have personal or moral objections molesting people as part of their daily job – will get fed up and quit. And the only TSOs we will have left are those that actually *like* their job…
All the whining and complaining above reminded me of a TV program I saw once that showed the camp guards in Auschwitz getting away to a recreational camp a few miles away for some fun and frolic to recuperate from the stressful job of murdering all those people. After all, they were professionals just doing their job–following orders–even if they didn’t agree with the policies. I seem to remember that the War Crimes Trials after the war established that “following orders” is no excuse. People of good faith who are working for the TSA should get out if the policies aren’t changed right away! I hope the new Congress gets on this ASAP. Meanwhile, Happy Holidays.
Perhaps I’ll leave them a dollar — you should pay whores.
The one thing I have against these backscattering machines is that they do not actually pick up a multitude of threats. They only reach past clothing, and the only other scan generally undertaken is just a simple metal detector. There are many other ways to simply make an explosion.
Just one of the many things you could do is mentioned on xkcd:
http://xkcd.com/651/
I know it is just a comedy strip, but I’m not exactly going to start listing ways to blow up planes. That would be rather stupid 😛
As for TSOs, I do see their point of view, but I also see the point of view that they have a choice of job, and could try to get a different one. I’m on the fence for that one.
As far as having fun with annoying/not nice TSOs, this should be good-
http://xkcd.com/779/
Yes, I am a xkcd fan.
This is just my point of view, don’t take it too seriously.
Random (never been to America in my life 😛 )
I’m going to turn the tables on this conversation and throw back something that I hear a lot from other TSA personnel (mainly Blogger Bob)….. Working for the TSA is not a Right, its a privilege. You can choose to work there or not. If your not comfortable feeling penises all day you can choose a different job.
I feel so bad for these folks who are “only following orders”. Real patriots they are. I made some small modifications to their comments from the article to put it all in the proper perspective for this sort of personal justification.
“Murderer, killer, devil, an embarrassment, creep. These are all words I have heard today at work describing me, said in my presence as I gassed the jews. These comments are painful and demoralizing, one day is bad enough, but I have to come back tomorrow, the next day and the day after that to keep hearing these comments. If something doesn’t change in the next two weeks I don’t know how much longer I can withstand this taunting. I go home and I cry. I am serving my country, I should not have to go home and cry after a day of honorably serving my country.”
“I come to work to do my job. It is not up to me to decide policy, it is up to me to carry out my duties as dictated by the Reichskommissariat. When a naked jew stands before me in preparation for the delousing chamber and calls me a antisemite or accuses me of killing their children it is disheartening. People fail to understand that neither of us are happy about the gassings I am carrying out. I am polite, I am professional and while someone may not like what I have to carry out, they came to me because they choose not to utilize the alternative and less troublesome method of suicide before arriving at the camp.”
@Foreigner
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showpost.php?p=2995299&postcount=66
“I talked about a situation at my local juvenile jail by a TSA agent in training who works for the local sheriff’s department. She was pissed at us for my not wanting to comply with removing my glasses and she spat out how we better get used to these invasive searches because they are going to be instituted everywhere and we would be forced to comply. This is a small town, low level sheriff’s department hack making those comments and just relishing the power trip of control they think they will control. I was shocked to hear it from someone so local as it brought all the ‘conspiracy theories’ on it home as opposed to some distant individual supposing of some slippery slopes. They are training these megalomaniac jerks already to make us comply….”
Fish,
With all respect to your TSA friends, I think the predecessors of the Nazis may be more applicable. In the period during the Weimar Republic, Germany established a constitution (Weimarer Verfassung) with rights not unlike our own. It begins with an acknowledgment that governing power emanates from the German people, and included specific protections including the freedom of movement. It contained provisions protecting a person’s home, papers and effects from violation by the government. It lasted until 1933 and was used by the NSDAP, the German workers party and the German Communist party to its advantage, culminating in the NSDAP electing Adolf Hitler Chancellor of Germany.
A fire, of unknown origins in the Reichstag, which was quickly labeled as a terrorist event led to the dissolution of many of the provisions of the Weimar Constitution (Zwieter Haupttiel) including the protections on individual privacy and rights, including homes, papers, telephone/telegraph and mail. This was coincident with the rise of Nazi power in Germany, and was supported by many Germans who had no idea what was to come.
In addition, it gave German governmental units authority to enact their own regulations, which were mainly secret, allowing agents to demand papers as a condition of travel and other abuses of the German citizens.
By the time the general population was fully aware, Germany was involved in its Lebensraum wars and it was too late. But make no mistake about it, the early Nazis and likely most Nazis were not full of hatred. They were members of a political party who happened to work for the government as it slowly began to erode the constitutional protections of the day. And the NSDAP even offered universal health care to grease its way into political power.
Interesting parallels, at least to me. In 1923, no one was criticized seriously for being a Nazi. That came decades later.
Are front line TSO agents Nazis? Not in the current popular understanding of the word, but as many others have noted, they are agents of a government agency which exercises its authority by Secret Directives (SDs and SSIs) which they claim allows them to do what they do. Could they become Nazis? Certainly and it won’t take much more to make it so.
I am a middle aged Australian with a satisfying job. This TSA stuff has been all over the news. We all know this screening process is flawed. It will change… Unfortunately it will take time and some involved (on both sides – TSA included) will likely be worse off emotionally as a result.
I wonder of those people who approve of the current process if they still would hold that opinion if they themselves were subject to the full screening process on their every journey, or witness another person breakdown from embarrassment, or witness a TSA staff go into distress after receiving unnecessary foul language, or witness their own child undergo a screen. My god.
Or even in a scenario a few years later…. still hold that opinion when they discover some of those associated in this process (TSA included) have an underlying & possibly connected issue associated with their drinking/drug/other habit – or that the moles growing on their skin is actually cancer, from that period in 209-2010 when they used radiation scanners at airports. MMT
TSA chief John Pistole to put priority on rail, subways
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2010-07-16-tsa16_ST_N.htm
““Do people know what a Nazi is? One can’t describe me as a Nazi because I am following a security procedure…”
Actually, I think that’s precisely the defense Nazis tried at Nuremberg.
You are kidding me, right? People have choices, okay? If this is so demoralizing, then talk to your superiors. They are the ones that make you do this. If they don’t listen, find another job! About that “nazi” comment that one of the TSO’s made, now you know what it’s like when we are called nazis by teapartiers and others. Btw: nazis “were just doing their jobs” frying people, etc. Please don’t give me that BS! “Just doing your job”? Nonsense. You know it’s not right. What you should be doing, all of you, is walk out on Opt-Out Day November 24. That will send a message to Sec. Napolitano. Oh, and serving your country does not mean serving Sec. Napolitano. It means serving us, the people. You are not doing that. You are serving Chertoff instead, and with the public groping and molesting you are trying to encourage people to go through the cancer chamber so Chertoff can be successful financially. Think I’m stupid?? Stop your power tripping!
I don’t care if you singlehandedly rescued 100 Afghani orphans from a burning building and you’re only working this job to pay for your elderly mother’s cancer medicine, you forfeit my respect as soon as you put on a TSA uniform. Absolutely no exceptions.
I can’t believe some of the things I’m reading here in the comment thread:
“If they don’t like their jobs, they should just quit.”
“The TSOs have a responsibility to their fellow citizens…”
“Just following orders is no excuse…”
Yes, indeed, it is quite simple for you to tell someone else, “Hey, you should just quit your job if you don’t like it” when they have a family to feed, bills to pay, and a mortgage to maintain. Folks, disagree with the policy all you like. Protest and do what you must to get the policy changed. But do NOT take it out on the people on the front-line who are just doing their job. They are normal people like you and me. They don’t make policy.
Bottom line – quit acting like children. If you don’t like the policy, don’t fly. But quit taking it out on the people who are doing their jobs and trying to keep you safe.
And another thing … quit throwing stones. I’m not Christian, but I keep getting told by all the family values conservatives that this is a Christian nation. If that’s true, I guess it’s a Christian nation that forgot about that little notion of “let he who is without sin cast the first stone.”
OK, here’s the deal. Some of these whining TSO’s need to sneek some of these porno scans out and release them to the press. You will never be prosecuted or fired because we all know that these images are not saved or stored. Right. I still want to know why a woman would be offended by a male groper and a man would not be offended by a gay male.
I have no sympathy for the predicament that TSA and their goons have put themselves in. I’d sooner sling burgers and mop floors than work at a job where I rob people of their dignity and their constitutional rights day in and day out. They SHOULD have low morale.
From day one I thought that these new enhanced pat downs were a terrible idea, but it is up to us, and our congressmen, to change these policies. After reading and seeing the conduct of some TSA agents, I can see where the hostility towards all TSA agents comes from. The apparent harassment of little kids and the disabled will turn the general public against you. As for my self, having had multiple surgeries from a terrible car accident in which people died and I was left perminatly disabled with a lot of metal in my body, I will probably have to have the pat down done to me and at such a time I will just close my eyes and imagine that I am having a physical done in which I have to turn my head and cough.
Nazi was a political party, like GOP or the other guys. It was the corrupt idiots in power that made it so hated. So the “following orders” excuse is just that, an excuse. When it started, the average German really did think the Jews were going to interment camps (like we did to the Japs), so again the “following orders” was used as a defense at the war trials. Whoever said the TSA has a choice is correct, they can quit, but a job is hard to come by nowadays, they have to let their own mind ( I can’t spell concunse) decide if it’s worth the headaches, or they can file a workers comp claim for stress. Maybe that’s the best ideal file a claim and let the gov pay you to sit at home. I’m just saying…
So, one population (group A, the American public) hates what is being done to them by a population of people (group B, the TSA). Group B (The TSA) hates doing what it is doing to Group A (the American public). The authority over what group B (the TSA) is doing is the Government. The group that is in authority over the U.S. Government (the Government of the people, by the people and FOR the people) is Group A (the American Public). Group A has told the Government, and the its subordinates (Group B, the TSA) to NOCK THIS BULLSHIT OFF! So if you are truly a professional, you listen to the people in charge (the American Public) and tell the middle man (the Government) to grope him/herself.
define:nazi
Short for Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei, the political party that emerged in Munich, Germany after World War I. The party was taken over by Adolf Hitler in the early 1920’s.
http://www.holocaustcentermilwaukee.org/education/resources/terms.php
Not long ago Americans enjoyed the best education in the world and America was one of the most advanced countries in the spheres of agriculture, medicine, the arts, heavy industry, electronics, and space travel, and Americans enjoyed the most innovative and most prosperous economy in the world. But no other nation in the history of the world fell from such a height. While the bulk of the populace was having fun by snorting coke, smoking weed, drinking beer, and telling God to get lost, their political leaders were busy selling them out on a silver platter to evil Globalists, and America was despoiled, pillaged, and parceled to Japan, China, Mexico, and Europe.
Americans were so prosperous that they said, “we don’t need God any longer, let’s get rid of the old myth in the sky by removing the Bible from Public Education and lets replace it with something more trendy, like Darwin’s theory of evolution, sex education and the homosexual agenda, we want our children well rounded in the ways of the world, they said.” And 47 years later, you feel like your world is collapsing around you, things are getting out of hand, like the incredible shrinking dollar, no more good paying manufacturing jobs, and the intrusive pat down by the TSA, which in reality is another oppressive tactic created by evil Globalists and carried out by the tyrannical members of the US Government bent on destroying America from within, by subjugating every men, women, and children.
The US Constitution today is nothing more than a historical parchment, and Americans no longer derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. Americans have been deceived, and manipulated into serfdom by unscrupulous politicians, judges, and religious leaders working in conjunction with heartless and ruthless Globalists. These Puppet Masters are also in control of the Federal Reserve System, the White House, Congress, the US Armed Forces, Education, Religion, and the Mainstream News Media, and they also prey on innocent little children, which they have conditioned through Public Education for the last 47 years into obedient little serfs as commanded by Nikita Khrushchev, “Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all.” And as stated by Hillary Rodham Clinton, “We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.”
Globalists also planed and carried out the attacks and the controlled demolition of the Twin Towers and Bldg 7 of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Globalists also masterminded the London bombings, and the Madrid bombings in order to deceive the people of the world into total submission through fear, since they long to have absolute power. Globalists just shift the blame to their favorite CIA operative and the world’s most feared and most elusive boogeyman Osama Bin Laden, in order to intensify fear and usurp Americans civil liberties by creating the oppressive Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation Security Administration, implemented through the Bush administration that continues to fool and manipulate very easily the gullible and fearful lost sheep of America into a false sense of security.
God is still in control, the fact is the Globalists are the ones dangling from the end of God’s strings, and Obama is dangling from the end of the Globalists strings, and the entire US Government is dangling from the end of Obama’s strings, and the American people are dangling from the end of the US Government strings. The godless American populace is under God’s judgment, therefore President Hussein Obama is one of God’s instruments of wrath, and so are the Globalists who also created the world’s economic crisis, and ordered the Government bailouts because of America’s rampant apostasy. God is decimating America in an orderly manner; in order to protect his called, chosen, and faithful followers, otherwise America today would be a heap of sulfur balls, and ashes just like the place where Sodom and Gomorrah once stood.
Just think for a moment about the sufferings your children and grandchildren will have to endure just because you choose to stick your tongue at the Most High God and His Son Jesus Christ. It’s a well-documented fact that America has become a nation of fools, and now they find themselves spiritually, intellectually, and financially bankrupt, following after evil. That’s is why they can’t accept the fact that the same evil Globalists that had President Kennedy assassinated, have installed every US President in the White House from Richard Nixon to Hussein Obama with a helping hand from the mainstream news media.
Just like they have done it in the past, Globalists have installed their new Congressional puppets in the last mid-term elections, and they will also install their favorite puppet in the White House in 2012, regardless of what happens at the voting booth, since they own the voting machines they can easily fix them to favor the puppets of their choice. As stated by Karl Marx the father of modern Communism, “The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.”
And it is obvious that in 1776, Johnny Adams was dead wrong when he said in Thoughts on Government, “Fear is the foundation of most governments; but it is so sordid and brutal a passion, and renders men in whose breasts it predominates so stupid and miserable, that Americans will not be likely to approve of any political institution which is founded on it.”
Working for the TSA is a perfect job for sex offenders. Where else can you find someone to stand still and not scream while you check out their privates? And they won’t call the cops on you!
This is the 4th Amendment to the Bill of Rights. Take it to the Airport and shove it up the TSA managers’ behind.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Its hard to escape the fact that what is going on is the willful violation of the 4th Amendment by people who are just “doing their jobs.” What a load of crap!
While this isn’t Naziism, it is certainly Fascism and what you are doing in the name of “your job” is most certainly hurting the country.
Quit. Or continue to face the justified verbal abuse.
While I understand the “poor me’s” in the article, they are not forced to violate others rights, they choose to do so. They choose to continue going to work and doing what they are told, even though some say that they are disgusted by the policy. The last one who said that they are offended by being called Nazi’s merely for doing their jobs and because they are Jewish MUST ask themselves this question.
Do they not pay attention to History? There were large numbers of German Nazi soldiers that where convicted for “just doing their jobs”, even though they were disgusted, knew that it wasn’t right and they didn’t make the policies, just carried them out.
Do they honestly believe that we, the american taxpayers will ultimately let them slide by with similar excuses? Illegal orders are illegal orders. How do your orders square with the US Constitution, which is the highest law in the land? If the orders and policies do not square with the constitution, refuse them. Protest in whatever manner is necessary to demonstrate that you are not merely another class of sheeple that will do and say anything, in the name of serving our country.
Yes the TSA personnel are doing their duty and they don’t like it. Did the Nazi concentration camp workers like mistreating the Jews and helping them to their deaths. I rather suspect most of them did not, yet they did it anyway. Their morale was probably low too. Cry me a river.