Though he mixed me up with Nick Monahan, I was glad to get this letter:
“I was searching some webpages, and came accross your website that mentioned TSA in it. So i read it. You’ll understand later in my letter to you.
“As I was reading, I was playing out both sides of the incedent that happen to you, your wife, and your child. as well as the screeners at the airport. Here’s a few things that you, I guess, have completly forgotten when it comes to national security, and YOU being EXEMPT because…what, your wife is pregnant and you’re tired? Sorry, doesnt work that way.“1) The screeners are doing their jobs.
“2) Yes, the female screener who was screening your wife SHOULD have asked your wife if she would like private screening before making her unveil herself infront of so many strangers, however, this is NO excuse for you to become irate and demand to know whats going on. Yes, she is your wife and you would like to know whats happening, but charging up to a screener and demanding to know what they did is absolutly NO way to go about it. If you like, you next time ask the screener if you could talk to their supervisor, once the supervisor is poresent, you ask them to explain the situation to you and your wife and all is well. -note- at any point your wife could have asked for private screening. she didnt have to immediatly take up her shirt, maybe she didnt know private screening was available, but if she was that upset about it, then maybe she would ask. right? saying goes “can’t hurt, might help”
“3) your total lack of confidence in what TSA is here doing, to me, as a proud american, makes me absolutly disgusted. For you to totally throw out the terrorists attacks on 9/11, and those all over the world makes me want to go house to house just so I can tell them. ‘hey, you, put down your newspaper full of bs, one sided stories and get an opinon of your own, and do something for your country’ but of course, I can’t do that.
“4) again with the terrorism. they HAD to touch your wifes breasts, she is no exempt because she is pregnant. Maybe you have not seen any movies with women carrying ‘fake’ babies but its possible. Its a maternity suit…people use them. AND they can hold a whole lot of stuff which is illegal in the sterile area of an aiport inside of them. So next time you start coming to conclusions, maybe you can take a step back, take a deep breathe and ask yourself “well…is it really that bad for them to be doing this?” or maybe ask yourself ‘oh, do I want another 9/11?’
“It distrubs me how often I hear people talk badly about the TSA and how its all ‘bullshit’. The TSA Screeners (which are now Officers) are more then capable of performing their much needed duties, every day. Yes, people make mistakes, and the female screener for your wife made a slight one, but that doesnt excuse your behavior.
“Theres so much I would like to say, yet I feel I am just wasting my time if I go on, and doubt very much that this email will even reach you, and if it does, that you’ll even read it. However, the above said is what I have to say thus far.
Sincearly yours
Transportation Security Officer of the Transportation Security Administration (Department of HOMELAND Security)
“one final note, dont think you, your wife or anyone is exempt because “you have a child on the way, your wife is almost due, etc etc etc” You know they screen you at the airport, you know, i take it, what you “hear” from others. Just remember that none of us know you, or your life story. So dont think we should act extra curteous to you when we have no idea who you are. We screen one passenger at a time, One bag at a time, like its our first.”
1:51 pm on December 5, 2006
