One of the things TSA spotters are looking for? People complaining about the TSA in line.

[thewayne]

Yup. Bitch about airport security in line, and you might be pulled aside for "additional screening."

http://www.cnn.com/2011/TRAVEL/04/15/tsa.screeners.complain/


And if you're interested in a little light reading, how about a copy of the Al Qaeda training manual, courtesy of PBS' Frontline. The reason why it's included is it says that agents should remain calm and don't raise a ruckus, therefor an AQ agent is more likely to easily get through screening.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/network/alqaeda/manual.html


http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/04/15/2051220/TSA-Investigates-People-Who-Complain-About-TSA

Comments

[silveradept]

Stu-pid. Why would anyone who's going to commit those kinds of acts want to draw attention to themselves by complaining about the people who are supposed to be looking for them?

[neefsck.livejournal.com]

That's exactly the point.

We are long past the point where we can expect someone who's going to commit an act of terrorism (or a crime) for that matter - to be standing in line, sweating and looking nervously about like a cartoon criminal. The best these security measures can hope to do is catch the odd stupid drug mule or minor customs violation.

Offhand, I have at least 2 types of medications in my bedside drawer at home which would flatten me right out in almost any situation - And thats taking into account I have a complete pathological problem with authority figures.

Now, Please don't get me wrong, Im not saying that its all a useless crock of shit, What I am saying is that there has to be a better way of screening in this way than letting minimum wage employees with nothing more than a checklist loose on a queue of passengers.
I think it was here (On this LJ) that a link to the way Israeli airport screening worked..which is far far in advance of the current US practices. In terms of training, resources and outlook.

As an aside, I wonder how long its going to be before a certain type exhibitionist catch on to the fact that they can get felt up in public simply by uttering a few choice words. :)

[silveradept]

Or by wearing certain types of clothing, I suspect. For all their vaunted technology, there seem to be a few interesting problems with those machines in relation to what they can pick up.