No Groping Me and No Naked Photos

[flyingfool]

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11/roberts-m1.1.1.html

 

[CesnaCaptn]

If you want to join the conversation, it's been going quite a while in the majors section.
http://forums.flightinfo.com/showthread.php?t=136644

 

[CX880]

As much as you want to shout at the top of your lungs.. Why are you patting me down when I just went through a metal detector!?!?!! Don't. Never mess with stupid people. Keep in mind the agents are very bored, they're looking for that one guy that thinks his liberties are being taken away to have some entertainment with. Just say yes and get out of there asap.

 

[sunlitpath]

They offered two options to get into the secured area. You refused both options. They can't let you through if you refuse both screening methods. Now, TSA and your company are wondering why you refused to cooperate with airport security screening. We can't decide our own screening methods at the airport. It's just one of those things. Good luck to you. Your intentions seem honest, but there is no way to measure that at the airport.

 

[gojo]

As much as you want to shout at the top of your lungs.. Why are you patting me down when I just went through a metal detector!?!?!! Don't. Never mess with stupid people. Keep in mind the agents are very bored, they're looking for that one guy that thinks his liberties are being taken away to have some entertainment with. Just say yes and get out of there asap.

Very true, it's annoying as h3ll, but they are just doing their job. The fight should not be with the screeners in view of the public. I feel that they share the same opinion as the majority of the traveling public. And that is that it makes them feel safer when the flight crews are screened. Why, because most people are naive about the fact that we as pilots don't need to smuggle anything on the plane to cause mayhem. Heck, I wonder if more people new about the crash axe in the flight deck if there would be a petition to remove it. Anyway, the fight needs to be with the higher ups at TSA and the FAA. I think that Crew Pass is the the only option at this point, but I din't think it will be an easy sell with congress as they are elected officials with the same mindset as their voters. This post is not meant as flamebait, but is just my opinion

 

[N813CA]

http://flyingpasties.com/

 

[No Delay]

If you want to see me naked...just ask.




Feel your pain, bro. But I think you've got yourself in a pickle. Prob a long list of people who feel violated and want to sue TSA.

I think you are going to look back and realize (although I agree with you and applaud your effort) that it would have been so much easier just to walk thru the machine and be on your merry way.

Just tell them it was cold out

 

[glasspilot]

It would have been easier for Ms. Rossa Parks to just get in the back of the bus and "be on her merry way".

It's outrageous a uniformed crew member is subject to naked imagery or a patdown in lieu of it.

 

[CX880]

It's outrageous a uniformed crew member is subject to naked imagery or a patdown in lieu of it.

Once I was Jumpseating on Fedex and the idiot security guard at the exit actually made me open up my bag to make sure I didn't steal anything from the plane. Hard to fit a container in my rollerboard.

 

[CiFIknow]

It would have been easier for Ms. Rossa Parks to just get in the back of the bus and "be on her merry way".

It's outrageous a uniformed crew member is subject to naked imagery or a patdown in lieu of it.

Spot on my friend. We, as pilots, are just a pawn in TSA's illusion of making people feel secure. People stand in an endless line to get through security getting more and more pi$$ed because of the long delays watching the TSA flunkies wearing braids, pierced ears and acting totally unprofessional. But, the people's irritation is supposed to be assuaged by the fact that they see us as pilots going through the same BS. The public response is supposed to be "Wow, look at how secure we are. Even the Pilots have to go through security screening.". Of course said public has no clue that all of the minimum wage aircraft cleaners, caterers, rampers, etc..., who have as much or not more access to the aircraft than we do have no security screening whatsoever.

All I can say is it is pretty f*cked up. We are being played in the TSA's game of illusions. I am still waiting for the headline that a terrorist was actually stopped at an airport checkpoint. To my knowledge there hasn't been one documented case.