The interactions with TSA I've had have been ok, even when selected out of special screening. I know they get shit on by a lot of people riled up by anti-government media, so I thank them for what they do.
Quote: (04-21-2019 03:46 AM)Foolsgo1d Wrote:
TSA has recrutied the lowest scum of the barrel and is proud of it.
This is representative of comments about TSA workers on media. It seems like working class people getting sneered at by "their betters" to me. It's not a particularly high-paying job, and it's got to be very stressful, even apart from the abuse from upper-middle class assholes.
The truth is that TSA workers have to pass a background check which includes an FBI National Crime Information Center criminal records check.
Walk in their shoes. Imagine if you made an error at your job and a plane with 300 people could blow up.
CBP are another agency, they've been dicks on my reentry because of my Middle East travels. Go ahead and search my bags if you wish, but no excuse otherwise for delaying me in entering a country I'm a citizen of.
If there's a particular problem in the USA, I attribute it to:
1. "Muh freedom" and extreme libertarian and anti-government tendency in the USA leads more people to disrespect and defy TSA workers whose purpose is to keep bombs and guns off planes.
Republican party media (Fox Breitbart etc) has a constant flow of anti-TSA stories because TSA are unionized government employees, and the Republicans want them privatized for profit for their cronies and non-union.
Some people really do think airport security searches of any kind are outrageous and unconstitutional, or that they should be exempt because they're white/old/ young/veteran/rich.
2. On the other hand, cop and authority worship in the USA leads to arrogance and power trips by cops of any kind.
3. General pressure of life in the USA, little social safety net, crap health system, crime, and marginal living conditions for the class of TSA workers contributes to ill-temper. There's a big mean streak in the USA which is not present in other developed countries.
These factors are present in any interactions between authorities and citizens in the USA.