scathing article on TSA at PHL

[Dont call me Shirley]

(mods: posted here because the customer was flying US, feel free to move)

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/daniel_rubin/20100818_Daniel_Rubin__An_infuriating_search_at_Philadelphia_International_Airport.html


Daniel Rubin: An infuriating search at Philadelphia International Airport


By Daniel Rubin
Inquirer Columnist
At what point does an airport search step over the line?

How about when they start going through your checks, and the police call your husband, suspicious you were clearing out the bank account?

 

[Dog Wonder]

How does this keep us safe?

 

[N965VJ]

A year ago a college student was detained for several hour because he had Arabic flash cards. A moron PHL police spokesman said that since his hair was now shorter than in his ID, it was a sign of "radicalization".

In January, a TSA screener in PHL planted a bag of white powder as a "joke" in a woman's bag. Then a few months later, a disabled four year old was forced to walk through the metal detector without wearing his leg braces.

If US cared about it's customers, they would be putting pressure on the PHL FSD to quit harassing people like this. :angry:

 

[BuffaloJoe]

What does this matter? What business is it for them to search. I believe, correct me if I am wrong, it is a violation of the 4th Amendmant. The President does not have the right to change the Constitution. If she was clearing her husbands account out and running off with it is NO CONCERN to the TSA!
1st it was Innocent until proven Guilty
2nd it became Guilty until Proven Innocent.
NOW, it becomes Guilty before there is any involvement.
Our Government needs to gets its stuff together. This is showing the World that the Terrorist Won. Full Body Scanners and Now this, all being managed by people who could not even be smart enough to get a job at McDonald's? US Airways should pressure the Gov't on issues, and stop the Lobbying!

 

[USFlyer]

This is exactly what the terrorists want to happen -- for our way of life to be so curtailed, so impeded, so stepped on by our "democratic" government that we incrementally become less and less "free". We have to accept a certain amount of risk in our lives, whether we're flying or doing something else, in order to retain the freedom we've come to enjoy.

 

[Harry Callahan]

I'm trying real hard to stay out of this so I don't get worked up.

TSA= IDIOTS & MORONS.

They need to be destroyed

 

[Travelpro72]

Passengers took a stand against airlines and their delays right? Well where are all these advocacy groups to rally for change with the TSA? Please 🙄 We all know TSA is a complete joke staffed by people that couldn't remember to hold the cheese on a quarter pounder at the golden arches. Airline management, employees and customers alike need to do something.

 

[Dont call me Shirley]

I'm glad that the great majority of TSOs are better than the thugs featured on the above links. More on the four year old:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-6212730-504083.html

 

[Edward]

As this is really not about USAIRWAYS, follow it here at its new home.

 

[aquagreen73s]

"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."

Benjamin Franklin