Kilted to Airports

[O'Callaghan]

I'm sorry, I have a hard time giving some of these M*R*NS a smile and the benefit of the doubt.

Their job is to screen for metallic objects, not to force people to undress and expose themselves whether in front of everyone else or in a secluded room where other 'agents' will laugh outside the door while peeking in (the case of a woman with underbra wires forced to perform a striptease comes to mind).

About time we all demand our 'agents' have a minimum intellect and a minimum of common sense to deal with people and the clothes they are wearing.

geez...

Agreed. Screeners in other countries usually seem to be less officious than the TSA. I don't imagine it's anything to do with their nationality. Probably they work for organisations that have some vested interest in not p*ss*ng off the passengers, for example they may work for the airport itself or even just for an organisation that represents all the airports in that country.

When the US ones used to work for the airlines they were not nearly as bad, for just this reason. Back then only the immigration were surly, and only at JFK! I hope no-one here is an immigration officer at JFK, but it's the truth. The TSA was supposedly created to replace the airline screeners because they lacked training and because a large proportion of them were not US citizens.

I suppose the citizenship thing was some paranoia that they could be a 'fifth column', but it's nonsense because you can be from anywhere in the world and become a US citizen. Do you really suppose that a terrorist would take seriously the promise to renounce all other citizenships?

As for training, what they have gained in training they seem to have lost in IQ, LOL!