{"id":31526,"date":"2012-11-28T01:47:01","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T08:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/28\/airports-the-tsa-and-apologetics.html"},"modified":"2012-11-28T01:47:01","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T08:47:01","slug":"airports-the-tsa-and-apologetics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/28\/airports-the-tsa-and-apologetics.html","title":{"rendered":"Airports, the TSA, and Apologetics"},"content":{"rendered":"

The one thing I'll say struck me as true from Baker's essay was that a big part of wide-spread opposition to TSA activities is not the activities themselves, but the attitudes of the agents involved. \u00a0I'll say that the Denver TSA folks tend to be professional, even (when pressed) compassionate. \u00a0On the other hand, LAX TSA operatives yell. At everyone. For sins being committed or having been committed by previous folks wending their ways through the lines. \u00a0<\/p>\n

If TSA agents showed any sense of empathy with the folks they are _de facto+ treating as potential murderous terrorists, I think they would not only do a better job, but people would be less resentful.<\/p>\n

Which calls to mind the idea that the TSA is some small karmic payback on\u00a0the middle and upper classes for the sins of conventional law enforcement upon lower class citizens. \u00a0"Hey, there's a guy in uniform, yelling at me, giving me orders, telling me to stand there, do this, show that, comply with this other thing — and I'd better do whatever arbitrary command he's giving me, because if I don't there will be hell to pay." \u00a0Hey, folks who find the TSA oppressive — consider how poorer people who deal with that sort of thing every day from the police must feel.<\/p>\n

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The one thing I'll say struck me as true from Baker's essay was that a big part of wide-spread opposition to TSA activities is not the activities themselves, but the attitudes of the agents involved. \u00a0I'll say that the Denver TSA folks tend to be professional, even (when pressed) compassionate. \u00a0On the other hand, LAX … Continue reading “Airports, the TSA, and Apologetics”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13547,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/11\/18\/show_your_id_but_no_fear.html","url_meta":{"origin":31526,"position":0},"title":"Show your ID, but no fear","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 18-Nov-08 6:44am","format":false,"excerpt":"Lady on plane: Nervous? 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