Passengers should vehemently protest these ridiculous Transportation Security Administration bully airport screeners' pat-down searches and write to their congressmen. Furthermore, more should complain by asking for the TSA screener's name and badge number. It's gone way too far. The TSA is more based on people who have watched way too much TV and fantasized about cop shows. I can tell you that in most other places in the world, like western Europe for instance, they do not embarrass you or treat you so poorly as here. Does it tell you something when they have a curtained booth if they desire to wand you further (i.e. Switzerland)? I fly over 120,000 miles yearly worldwide on many airlines. These screeners are having too good of a time with their "Barney Fife" and such a bully mentality. They are not "just doing their jobs" as they remark. Hogwash. If they were serious about thwarting terrorism, they'd do things like conduct mini-interviews and ask intelligent questions to seek responses and observe one's behavior, like they do in Israel, in which they're excellent and highly successful at it. Of course that would be beyond the 10 minute maximum wait Mr. Norman Mineta had wanted when this TSA was formed. Forget that logic of interviews. And, the newer U.S.-visit program? I wonder how many of our western European friends we've run off from visiting or conducting business on our soil? Fingerprinting, photographing and treating them like criminals, too. Ridiculous for such lower risk persons. I wouldn't come here if I didn't have to. Three years past 9-11 and we still haven't learned squat on handling people at the country's airports. I think we're becoming a police state.

Thanks for re-electing wonderful Georgy Bush folks! Another four years, oh boy.


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Top Stories - December 2nd, 2004


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