With respect to the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) policy on frisking that has received so much coverage in our sensationalized news over the past month...
I get frisked every time I go through the airport, due to my brain implant for Parkinson's Disease. The Deep Brain Stimulator would essentially pick up the X-Ray energy and "swizzle stick" my brain or at the very least cook a significant portion of it. Quite frankly, I'm not all to sensitive to the belly aching whiners complaining about being frisked. To top it all off Chief, my service dog, gets the pat down too... and he seems to like it!
While I never had any issues with a "good frisking", could be my Submariner nature, I think I'm going to take the behavior cue on this one from my dog Chief. When it is his turn to be frisked, he sits down on command, stands up on command, seems to smile a bit wearily with his ears back, wags his tail, and scoots on out of the box when hes told to. But then again, I suppose most good dogs wouldn't complain a bit about being groped anyway, as a matter of fact if you own a dog, you probably grope it daily anyhow... and don't deny it!
How about we all try this for a change? Just for this Christmas season, why don't we thank that wicked stressed out TSA official for keeping you and me safe! AFTER YOU GET FRISKED!
The TSA official, your personal agent of safety, was OBLIGED to endure completing probably a thousand friskings, before yours, of yet mostly overweight, unhealthy, sweaty, pissed off, people... or it could equally have been a healthy, good looking, frisky, able bodied, person who felt it was their right to make a statement about their personal freedoms, liberties, and rights being infringed upon.
How about the TSA official's right to have as safe and stress free of a work environment as possible? Do we really give ourselves that much permission to displace the liberties of those who are charged with protecting us?
Give the TSA official a freaking break man! That person who's about to put his no doubt unwilling hands on your "hot hot sexy body" is not even involved in creating the rules, codes, and policies that they are enforcing. They're just doing their job man, which means that they are employed in this crappy economy and they are actually helping us not hurting us.
IT IS THEIR JOB AND MY SAFETY THAT THEY ARE PROTECTING, NO MATTER HOW DIFFICULT YOU CHOSE TO MAKE IT FOR THEM!
So... take a deep breath and and let them to their job and thank them with a smile!
If it really bugs you that much.... TAKE THE FRIGGIN' TRAIN!
Roger
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