THE FIRST AMENDMENT

This is a reminder to the Upper Crust of the TSA that you are suppose to be defending freedom and liberty and not hindering it by putting a muzzle on the people that work for you. Instead of getting mad at me, why do you not do something about the allegations made about these rogue supervisors? Is it easier to be angry at me rather then look in the mirror and see what is wrong with yourselves? I guess my hope was that you might actually look into the allegations made about these walking wastes of taxpayer money. Keep hiding your head in the sand. My one hope is that all of you from Supervisor up will someday have to work for someone as incompetent and ineffective as yourselves.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
— The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

The First Amendment was written because at America's inception, citizens demanded a guarantee of their basic freedoms.

Our blueprint for personal freedom and the hallmark of an open society, the First Amendment protects freedom of speech, press, religion, assembly and petition.

Without the First Amendment, religious minorities could be persecuted, the government might well establish a national religion, protesters could be silenced, the press could not criticize government, and citizens could not mobilize for social change.

When the U.S. Constitution was signed on Sept. 17, 1787, it did not contain the essential freedoms now outlined in the Bill of Rights, because many of the Framers viewed their inclusion as unnecessary. However, after vigorous debate, the Bill of Rights was adopted. The first freedoms guaranteed in this historic document were articulated in the 45 words written by James Madison that we have come to know as the First Amendment.

The Bill of Rights — the first 10 amendments to the Constitution — went into effect on Dec. 15, 1791, when the state of Virginia ratified it, giving the bill the majority of ratifying states required to protect citizens from the power of the federal government.

The First Amendment ensures that "if there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein," as Justice Robert Jackson wrote in the 1943 case West Virginia v. Barnette.

And as Justice William Brennan wrote in New York Times v. Sullivan in 1964, the First Amendment provides that "debate on public issues ... [should be] ... uninhibited, robust, and wide-open."

However, Americans vigorously dispute the application of the First Amendment.

Most people believe in the right to free speech, but debate whether it should cover flag-burning, hard-core rap and heavy-metal lyrics, tobacco advertising, hate speech, pornography, nude dancing, solicitation and various forms of symbolic speech. Many would agree to limiting some forms of free expression, as seen in the First Amendment Center's State of the First Amendment survey reports.

Most people, at some level, recognize the necessity of religious liberty and toleration, but some balk when a religious tenet of a minority religion conflicts with a generally applicable law or with their own religious faith. Many Americans see the need to separate the state from the church to some extent, but decry the banning of school-sponsored prayer from public schools and the removal of the Ten Commandments from public buildings.


Such difficulties are the price of freedom of speech and religion in a tolerant, open society.

R.I.P.

I think the picture says it all! Good Luck Lonewatchman! Inept and Incapable Leadership Chases Out Yet Another Good Man! In The Words of Great Jewish Athlete, Bill Goldberg,"WHOSE NEXT!"

PROMOTIONS AND MANAGEMENT TRAINING IN THE TSA

INTERVIEWS FOR A SUPERVISORS POSITION AT THE GERALD R. FORD WERE HELD RECENTLY. ONE COULD ONLY IMAGINE THAT THE SCENE RESEMBLED SOMETHING LIKE THIS

ONCE THE SUCCESSFUL APPLICANT IS PROMOTED, THAT LUCKY PERSON WILL GET TO ATTEND WHAT I WAS TOLD BY MAX IS THE BEST SUPERVISORS TRAINING SCHOOL IN THE NATION. I BELIEVE THAT THIS FOLLOWING PICTURE CAPTURES THAT FINE CLASS AT ITS BRIGHTEST MOMENT

ANOTHER FINE EXAMPLE OF IMAGE ENHANCEMENT

It has recently come to my attention that a lead on afternoons, who shall remain nameless, was seen wearing a t-shirt similar to the one pictured above. This is the same bufoon that thinks he is a shoe in for the promotion to supervisor. I am sure that rumors of the t-shirt incident will earn him miles toward that promotion and yet still prove my point on what a schmuck he is. I understand that the shirt was 4x extra extra tall.

I know my image of sups and leads has improved......Yeah Right!

IT WOULD BE HARD TO FIGURE OUT JUST WHAT SUPERVISOR OR LEAD IS PICTURED BELOW. IT COULD BE A NUMBER OF PEOPLE. THE PROBLEM IS GETTING THEM TO PULL THEIR HEAD OUT OF THEIR ASSES SO WE CAN SEE WHO IS WHO!
NOW THIS IS MORE LIKE THE IMAGE I HAVE OF THE TSA MANAGEMENT AT THE GERALD R. FORD INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT IN GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

PROMOTING WHO?-STORY BY THE LONEWATCHMAN

Here’s a quick but true story about the promotion process I experianced
while working for the TSA. It should make everyone think twice about
who is making the decisions that keep them safe in the air.

So who are the candidates and who gets the promotion?

A woman with a BA in psychology, and whom has been acting lead multiple
times? Nope.

How about the 82nd Airborne vet, who actually applied with a 10 point
vet preference for disability? He also acted as a lead damn near every
weekend while we were short leads. Should he get the promotion? Nope.

How about the guy that gave up his first year of marriage to guard the
captured terrorists that created the TSA. The guy who had been face to
face and hands on with the jerk that missed the plane four years ago.
Does he get promoted? Nope.

Here we go, someone with only a GED and some time as a screener prior
to 9-11. Yup, that's the promotion.

Does this instance fit in with the mission of national security?
Is this ethical?
Is this even legal concerning veteran's preference?
Do you feel safe at the airport?

THE LONEWATCHMAN

SCREENING MANAGEMENT FOR DUMMIES

I THINK THE BOOK SHOULD REALLY BE NAMED; "SCREENING MANAGEMENT FOR DUMMIES BY DUMMIES"
HAVING WORKED FOR THE CREAM OF THE CROP, I HONESTLY BELIEVE THAT THIS BOOK REALLY DOES EXIST AND IS USED!

WEEKEND SHOUT OUT

Below is a picture of the People in charge of the TSA at the Gerald R. Ford International Airport in Grand Rapids, Michigan.















Just want to give a weekend shout out to the boobs at HR who I know are reading this along with the weinies at the Gerald R. Ford International Airport in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

BEST COMEBACK EVER

Hey what do you know. Something that doesn't have to do with that bunch of bungling morons who run the TSA at the Gerald R. Ford International Airport in Grand Rapids Michigan.

BEST COMEBACK EVER

A Soldier tells about an incident in the grocery store he stopped
at yesterday, on his way home from the base. He said that ahead of
several people in front of him stood a woman dressed in a burkha.
He said when she got to the cashier she loudly remarked about the
US flag lapel pin the cashier wore on her smock.

The cashier reached up and touched the pin, and said proudly,
"Yes, I always wear it and I probably always will."

The woman in the burkha then asked the cashier when she was going
to stop bombing her countrymen, explaining that she was Iraqi.

A gentleman standing behind the soldier stepped forward, putting
his arm around his shoulders, and nodding towards the soldier, said
in a calm and gentle voice to the Iraqi woman: "Lady, hundreds of
thousands of men and women like this young man have fought and died so that YOU
could stand here, in MY country and accuse a check-out cashier of
bombing YOUR countrymen. It is my belief that had you been this
outspoken in YOUR own country, we wouldn't need to be there today.
But, hey, if you have now learned how to speak out so loudly and
clearly, I'll gladly buy you a ticket and pay your way back to Iraq
so you can straighten out the mess in YOUR country that you are
obviously here in MY country to avoid."

Everyone within hearing distance cheered.

ISRAELI AIRLINE SECURITY-BEST IN THE WORLD!

And You Trust the TSA to Protect You?
My family and I flew to Israel last week on El Al, but we bought our tickets through Delta, which flew us from Reagan National to JFK. Delta let us check our luggage in D.C. for the whole trip, which surprised me, because El Al usually has its own security screening. It turned out that the bags were supposed to be screened again in New York, which no one mentioned until we were about to board the plane for Tel Aviv. At that point an El Al security guy whisked me into the bowels of the airport to identify our bags and answer questions about them. He explained that we could not get on the flight with the bags until they had been cleared by the airline. When I mentioned that the luggage had already been screened by the TSA in D.C., he laughed and said, "And you trust the TSA to protect you?" While American air travel security is just for show, he said, the Israeli version is for real.

Although he was hardly a disinterested observer, the comparison had the ring of truth. To begin with, Israeli screeners tend to be brighter and better trained than their American counterparts. Like the TSA, they scan baggage and run people through metal detectors. But much of their job involves asking passengers questions and reading their responses, including tone of voice and body language. This approach, which is in some ways more intrusive than a TSA pat-down and in other ways less so, requires skills that you can't learn in a quick pre-employment course and screeners who do more than watch monitors and wave wands. In the U.S., which has many more flights than Israel and faces a lower risk of terrorist attacks, I'm not sure whether more-professional airline security personnel would be worth the cost. But from what I've seen and read of the TSA in action, the El Al screener was right that the U.S. program is essentially cosmetic. The question is whether the appearance of security serves to deter terrorists or only to falsely reassure passengers.

Joke all you want, but I'm really nervous about my flights this week. The TSA will no doubt spend a lot of Your Tax Dollars to ensure that Bin Laden's not hiding in my bra, but they won't do a damn thing to make sure the plane's cargo hold is bomb-free. They'll violate my privacy to make sure there are no nukes in my cosmetic kit, but won't lift a finger to make sure the maintenance crews aren't doing bad things to the engine and landing gear.

In 1968, a new era in air piracy commenced as disaffected Palestinians and other Arabs used passenger jets to lash out against Israel. The first such hijacking happened on July 23, 1968, when three Arabs seized a Tel Aviv-to-Rome flight of El Al, the Israeli airline. The plane was diverted to Algiers, where the passengers were eventually released, although some were held for a month.

El Al became an industry leader in airline security by screening passengers, posting armed guards on its flights and equipping cockpits with armored doors. Political hijackers then began focusing on other airlines that serviced Israel, including a number of American air carriers. In 1970, Palestinians achieved the landmark coordinated hijackings of three jets—one each from TWA, Swissair and British Airways. The planes were diverted to Jordan, emptied of passengers and crew, and blown up. (Many terrorism experts view that hijacking as a blueprint for the deadly attacks of September 11, 2001.)

But American authorities were loath to make sweeping changes in air security, even after the trio of hijackings to Jordan. President Nixon ordered the usual response of armed sky marshals on some flights. More aggressive measures, including baggage inspection and metal detectors, were rejected as being bad for the air travel business: They would make passengers jittery.

Airline security expert Shlomo Dror pointed out the differences between Israeli and American security methods. The Israelis search for weapons, but they concentrate on the passengers. Every passenger is checked against a list of potential terrorists.

In addition, passengers are profiled. Suspicious-looking people are selected for questioning, with a view to identifying those with false identification or questionable reasons for traveling. Bags are searched, and armed agents are on most flights.

In contrast, we ignore the passengers and concentrate on weapons, scissors and flip out style Mercedes/Benz automotive keys. But what is a weapon? Prior to 9-11, box cutters would not have been included. And prior to would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid, nobody would have thought of examining shoes.

Israelis concentrate on suspicious passengers, but we avoid profiling and search children and elderly ladies, while young Middle Eastern-appearing men often pass freely. Liberal do gooders and politically correct pussies are afraid to offend anyone who appears muslim or middle eastern, but will freely rifle through an old ladies bag or a Jewish man's tallis bag.

Dror summarized the situation by stating that America does not have an airline security system – it has a system for annoying passengers.


Or course we must continue to search for weapons. But as the shoe bomber showed, we cannot recognize all weapons. If a shoe could be a bomb, a necktie or a belt could be a garrote. Shall we insist that businessmen arrive at their destinations tieless and with their pants falling down?

Books, laptops or bags could be clubs. Eyeglasses could be broken and yield sharp pieces of glass. A shirt could be pulled off and used to tie up a cabin attendant.

In order to be sure passengers are not carrying weapons, we could insist that they travel nude. But what if they were experts in martial arts? In fact, there is no way to be sure, because the most dangerous weapon is the human mind.

If we spent less time searching elderly ladies for crochet hooks and more time scrutinizing likely terrorists, we could make air travel safer and less annoying. But to do that, we would have to admit that the underlying belief system of liberalism is false.

Evil is not an external influence, something outside ourselves that forces us to perform bad acts. People don't kill because they have a gun, a knife or a box cutter.

People don't kill because they are poor. Most of the 9-11 hijackers were from upper-middle-class families, and bin Laden is a multi-millionaire.

People kill because they have bad values. They kill because they lack the inhibitions that good values produce. They kill because they have never been taught that anything is superior to their own desires. They kill because they want to, and often because they enjoy it.

If 9-11 was not a sufficiently strong lesson, it is difficult to imagine what would be. Will it take a nuclear blast or a release of Ebola virus to cure us of our delusion that inanimate objects can be evil?

Now we hear that we are under attack by young Middle Eastern men. Again we don't listen. We pretend that we have as much to fear from all ethnic, religious, age and gender groups. But ignoring facts can be dangerous. Indeed, it can be fatal.

We rightly condemn suicide bombers and airline hijackers, whose perverted fanaticism requires human sacrifice. But let us take care not to imitate them.

Aren't "civil liberties" fanatics doing exactly that? Don't they claim that another terrorist attack is preferable to profiling? Aren't they demanding that we offer human sacrifices to their pagan gods of liberalism and multiculturalism.

At the Gerald R. Ford International Airport, a TSA supervisor is famous for taking away blunt tipped little 3 inch sewing kit scissor away from old ladies and traveling business people. Another Supervisor at the Gerarld R. Ford Airport in Grand Rapids insist that Screeners require women to remove even clingy sweaters, even if they are wearing revealing garments underneath. But then again, this is the same Supervisor that emailed to several screeners a picture of a little boy holding his penis. Hmmm, the skeletons in ones closet. But as some of us know, according to the TSA, these Supervisors and managers are the best and the brightest. (Shit, I gagged just having typed that little peice of fiction, as if) They have been sent to the best supervisory training in the country.

Managers and administrators of the TSA could afford to learn something from the Jewish State of Israel when it comes to airline security.

LETTER FROM THE LONEWATCHMAN

I was discriminated against twice for my service while at TSA. Imagine
how it felt coming back from a mission directly related to national
security, to have that service held against me. First some simpletons
for one of the agencies that hired the first round of screeners lost a
bunch of security clearances. So the screeners whom were not overseas
and face to face with terrorists, simply went to the airport police
office for finger prints, filled out their paperwork again, and that
was that. Of course returning vets were expected to drive to a local
police department, on their own time, without the workman's comp
umbrella. Then once at this police department we had to pay our own
money and get reimbursed later.
The law says vets returning from military duty to civilian employment
are not suppose to be treated any differently than the civilian
employees. But here it was, being asked to go on our own time, at our
own expense, and our own risk to do something everyone else did on the
clock. This instance was created by our admin officer, who should have
known better. This guy could have turned our FSD into the face of the
prejudice employer during a time of war, in the eyes of the media. I
was only hours away from contacting Employer Support of the Guard and
Reserve (ESGR). It was a slam dunk case, it was about to become a
metaphoric massacre in the legal realm. Luckily a supervisor and a
manager understood the gravity of situation and did what needed to be
done to make everything cool and legal. I bet to this day those two
ladies don’t get any credit for averting a legal and public relations
nightmare for our FSD. In fact I am fairly confident senior management
doesn’t even know about it.
The next instance of discrimination came soon after, when bonuses were
being paid out. The idea was to reward every screener with a nice bonus
of about 300 bucks. Once again however our shameless admin officer just
didn’t understand your not suppose to hold service against vets. He
decided since some screeners were on military duty, they don’t qualify
for the bonuses. The law of course guarantees that employees on
military duty get all the same pay, increases, and incentives other
employees do, so it's as if the vet had never left. Basically the vets
were being told you can’t have a bonus because you were defending the
country overseas. This was not an individual bonus, this was a blanket
bonus every screener received. Nor was it a bonus that was paid while
we were gone, it was being paid after we had returned. Again an
internal struggle occurred and put several vets from all levels of
management solidly against the admin officer. Eventually the vets did
get the bonus, almost a month later. The fact remains though that this
admin officer committed two acts of discrimination against vets, and he
still has his job. Would he still be working there if he had
discriminated twice against people of another ethnic group? The only
thing worse than a civilian dumping on vets, is when other vets let it
happen. -Lonewatchman

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MORE TSA JOKES!

More TSA jokes

1. How is the TSA like septic tanks: All the biggest peices of crap eventually rise to the top.

2.Q: How many TSA Screener Managers does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A. At least 4, plus a Screener. One to hire the Screener to screw it in for them, a second to supervise the victim, a third to start nit-picking about the way the bulb is being screwed, and a fourth to screw the victim by firing him. They take the credit though none of them actually touched the light bulb.

3.Definition of TSA Screener Stress:The minds ability to override the body's desire to kick the crap out of some Supervisor who has it coming!

4.Comments that you could put in a TSA Supervisors Quarterly Evaluation(would'nt it be nice)
a.I would not allow this employee to breed.
b.When she opens her mouth, it seems it is only to change whichever foot was previously there.
c.This employee is depriving a village somewhere of an idiot.
d.If he were any more stupid, he'd have to be watered twice a week.
e.It's hard to believe he beat out 1,000,000 other sperm.
f.Some drink from the fountain of knowledge, he only gargled.
g.If you give him a penny for his thoughts, you'll get change.

5.After a two year long study, The National Science Foundation announced the following results on Corporate America's recreation preferences:

1. The sport of choice for unemployed people is: BASKETBALL
2. The sport of choice for maintenance level employees is: BOWLING
3. The sport of choice for front line workers is: FOOTBALL
4. The sport of choice for supervisors is: BASEBALL
5. The sport of choice for middle management is: TENNIS
6. The sport of choice for corporate officers is: GOLF

CONCLUSION: The higher you are in the corporate structure, the smaller your balls become.

6.All the organs of the body were having a meeting, trying to decide who was in charge. "I should be in charge", said the brain, "because I run all the body's systems, so without me nothing would happen".
"I should be in charge", said the blood, "because I circulate oxygen all over, so without me you'd all waste away".
"I should be in charge", said the stomach, "because I process food and give all of you energy".
"I should be in charge", said the rectum, "because I'm responsible for waste removal".
All the other body parts laughed at the rectum and insulted him, so in a huff, he shut down tight.
Within a few days, the brain had a terrible headache, the stomach was bloated, and the blood was toxic.
Eventually the other organs gave in. They all agreed that the rectum should be the boss.
The moral of the story?
You don't have to be smart or important to be in charge ... just an asshole.

LETTER FROM A DISSED VET

INTERESTING LETTER I FOUND AT A SCREENER WEBSITE. SOUNDS FAMILIAR? PROMOTING A PERSON WITH A GED (WHOME IF YOU HAVE EVER READ ANYTHING THAT THIS PERSON HAS WRITTEN, YOU WOULD KNOW THAT HE/SHE PROBABLY DID'NT EVEN WRITE THEIR OWN RESUME LET ALONE THE KSA's) OVER QUALIFIED PEOPLE WITH COLLEGE AND VET STATUS.

CDR Moriarty (and all Veteran Officers),
I salute you - in the proper sense of the term.
I am currently in the Navy Reserve. Although I chose the enlisted route, I have been CPO (E7 for you non military types) Board eligible for the past 6 years; and in process of submitting my package for LDO. I have a BA degree in business, 10 years civilian management success and a total of 17 years active and reserve Navy time. I have been selected as both unit and Reserve Center sailor of the quarter and nominated for sailor of the year.

There is a two faced TSA, 1 engaged in public ally stating they "support" Veterans, and the second - the "TRUE" TSA that does everything they can to discriminate and harass Veterans. I salute you for ensuring my freedom and my family's freedom to live - in the greatest country ever, with all its troubles and problems, there is nothing even close anywhere else throughout the world. Although I remain on duty, ready to be called to the next operation, you and so many other Veterans have already given so much, and deserve the respect of our grateful nation. If anyone can visit the Vietnam Memorial in Wash. D.C. without shedding a tear, they just aren't human or simply have absolutely no clue what-so-ever. Yet these same people want to set policy and make judgments for those of us who have/are/will serve(ed). They vote to limit health-care and benefits to Veterans, then vote to give $$Millions to families who lost relatives in the 9-11-2001 tragedy. What makes the life of a civilian more valuable than that of a soldier fighting for days, months and even years - tirelessly and dying protecting the civilians so they do not have to be subjected to the horrors and trudged of war???. How do they look into the eyes of a Veteran that has lost both legs and his best friend or brother, then tell him they are reducing his medical coverage and treatment for his combat injuries, so they can afford their pay raise or even the pay-out to the victims/families of 9/11. This all ties into the TSA and their mis-treatment of Veterans. Refusing to recognize years of service, service (combat and other) disabilities, training, education, experience, professionalism, dedication, ability and desire to make a difference..... (true example...) all in favor of a 19 year old Hispanic female with a G.E.D. that they tell all Veterans is "More qualified and has been selected over you for the Supervisor Position." What an insult! This is absolutely not racial, but the discrimination against Vets in favor of Hispanic Females at MCO is rampant.

This all leads me to your remarks below...........

Unfortunately, the "TSA Standard" is the KING of Oxymorons....

There is absolutely NO STANDARD of any kind - What-so-ever.

With one exception.... the TSA "Standard" of allowing, promoting and even encouraging:

* Discrimination
* Harassment
* Corruption
* Fraud
* Verbal Assault of employees
* Physical Assault of employees
* Nepotism
* Cronyism
* Fiduciary Mismanagement
* Security Violations

This IS the TSA "STANDARD !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If they really want a successful organization, put the military and Veterans in charge. No - we probably won't offer nearly as much customer service, but the American and Flying public WILL BE SAFER !!! We will accomplish this with far less cost, far more expediency and for those passengers who bring weapons claiming they forgot... far more jail time.

Americans especially need to wake up and take things seriously. Let them try to survive 1 week in Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Mogadishu, Sierra Leon, Guantanamo Bay (Cuba) and camp 'x-ray' ... or any number of locations in the troubled world our military is sent... Just let them try. This is serious,... and using hand puppets, stickers and fake security checks isn't helping the problem any - at all.

Someone recently mentioned a "Million Screener" march.... I suggest starting a grass roots campaign for a MILLION VETS March on Washington, D.C.. Lets tell the politicians - "Were mad as hell, and were not going to take it anymore !"

* You know,.... with the success Bob Marchetta has had with MAWA, maybe we can convince him after turning things over to a new president, he can head up a National Veterans Rally. Imagine the impact and clout millions of Veterans and their families can have !!!What do you think - Bob ????

Les ****** (TSA - Lead TSS) (Last name omitted by webmaster to protect writer)
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TSA JOKES- AIN'T IT THE TRUTH BROTHAS AND SISTAS!

The funniest one I've heard yet !!! Five surgeons are discussing who was the best patients to operate on.
The first surgeon says, "I like to see accountants on my operating table because when you open them up, everything inside is numbered."
The second responds, "Yeah, but you should try electricians! Everything inside them is color coded."
The third surgeon says, "No, I really think librarians are the best; everything inside them is in alphabetical order."
The fourth surgeon chimes in: "You know, I like construction workers. Those guys always understand when you have a few parts left over at the end, and when the job takes longer than you said it would."
But the fifth surgeon shut them all up when he observed: "You're all wrong. TSA supervisors, screening managers and FSD's are the easiest to operate on. There's no guts, no heart, no balls, no brains and no spine, and the head and the ass are interchangeable!"

An Indian walks into a cafe with a shotgun in one hand and a bucket of buffalo manure in the other.
He says to the waiter, "Me want coffee."
The waiter says, "Sure chief, coming right up."
He gets the Indian a tall mug of coffee, and the Indian drinks it down in one gulp, picks up the bucket of manure, throws it into the air, blasts it with the shotgun, then just walks out.
The next morning the Indian returns. He has his shotgun in one hand and a bucket of buffalo manure in the other.
He walks up to the counter and says to the waiter, "Me want coffee."
The waiter says, "Whoa, Tonto. We're still cleaning up your mess from the last time you were here. What the heck was all that about, anyway?"
The Indian smiles and proudly says, "Me training for TSA supervisor position: Come in, drink coffee, shoot shit, leave mess for others to clean up, disappear for rest of day."

TSA PLEDGE:
1. DON'T ASK QUESTIONS!
2. I PROMISE TO NEVER QUESTION AUTHORITY!
3. I PROMISE TO NEVER BRING UP MY RIGHTS!
This is brought to you, courtesy of the Ministry of Homeland Security

MORE TALES FROM THE DARKSIDE...

THIS IS AN EDITORIAL I FOUND WRITTEN BY A SCREENER AT BOSTON LOGAN AIRPORT. SOUNDS KIND OF LIKE THE SAME STUFF AT GRR. REMEMBER THE SCREENER COUNCIL? RODGER THE DODGER AND CO. NOT EVER WANTING TO ADDRESS "REAL" ISSUES CONCERNING SCREENERS. THE GROUP DISBANDED. THEN IT WAS REVIVED UNDER THE GUISE OF THE NEW AFSD. WE ALL KNOW WHAT HAPPEND TO THAT ONE. ONCE AGAIN, NO REAL ISSUES RESOLVED AND THE PERSON WHO WAS CHARGED WITH REVIVING IT WAS HARRASSED TO THE POINT OF HAVING TO RESIGN OUT OF FEAR FOR HIS/HER JOB FOR TRYING TO ADDRESS THE PROBLEMS FACING SCREENERS BECAUSE OF INEXPERIENCED AND INEFFECTIVE SUPERVISORS WITH INFLATED EGO'S.

Dear Screeners and Leads:

Heard about this being done early last week
when a screening manager came around to
ask the Supervisor to select a few specific
sceeners and Leads to appear at this hush-
hush MASSPORT Media room. Each selected
person seemed happy as a pig in mud, when
they were also told they'd naturally be paid
to go there. Something that doesn't occur
if one attends any monthly FSD meeting and
isn't working...

Not so subtle bribery attempt to co-opt
management desired positive answers from
those they also quietly selected, perhaps...?

We confirmed the actual matter that unfolded
here in that very hush-hush meeting today, when
we spoke with one of the Leads whom was invited.

Here's what occurred:

To help undermine any now public media articles
telling of unusually high [for a federal agency]
turnover rates at major airports, like Logan
International in Boston, Massachusetts and the
desire by more and more currently employed TSA
screeners to speak to the US media letting the
public know 'what' wrong at TSA headquarters
[management-wise]...the Dept of Homeland
Security Office of Inspector General's office
reps, is quietly visiting each US airport [to meet
with local TSA-management selected screeners
and Leads]...to gather information on 'how'
great things are with each of us.

At no point, is any screener or Lead whom ever
brought a major employee concern up at any
US airport meeting, in writing to their managers
or to TSA HQs, etc...getting invited to speak.
People with real concerns, our concerns mind
you...are being purposefully excluded to help
manipulate the results in favor of 'how'
management and TSA headquarters ran
things.

Each covert visit is being held in locations
that any regular screener can't help but to
be intimidated by [thus, won't say what
really angers them so far over the course
of the past year...]. For example, every
monthly FSD Town Hall meeting is held in
Logan Airport's MASSPORT Media Room.
This is where local TSA managers asked
their self-selected 'unbiased and
independently speaking' screeners and Leads,
to sit down...one on one...and answer
numerous DHS/TSA orchestrated questions.
* Remember, local management quickly let
them know they'd "be paid for their time to attend",
rightafter asking them to attend a hush-hush
meeting a few days after they were each
asked...

The selected invitees, were offered up
several hours of loaded questions, designed
to get DHS/TSA friendly answers...not
answers that reveal the current level of
anger and frustration with 'how' Loy and
his staff, or our U.S. airport TSA staffs,
made employee harmful choices for the
last twelve months.

Looks and smells like a 'white-washed'
report full of the typical lies...oops, I mean,
'mis-information' which we poor souls that
don't work in TSA HQs...just can never seem
to get correct.

If any screener or Lead, offered their local
TSA managing team, FSD, or TSA HQs...any
to date ignored major employee group
concern, and weren't invited to this covert
DHS OIG, they should write the DHS OIG's
office and ask 'why' they were manipulated
out of the loop for what actually, to be fair...
should have been an 'Open-house' or 'Free to
speak our mind Town Hall forum', for gathering
real facts from unbiased screeners and Leads,
and in a naturally less intimidating environment.

Is anyone surprised by this?...

Just another reason to speak unofficially
about issues that anger so many whom work
as screeners and Leads.

As long as no screener or Lead, mentions
anything about SSI-like items, ie: training
procedures, testing procedures, 'how' they
perform their roles at work or anything about
their opinion of technology we all use performing
our duties...every other subject is reserved
as a constitutional "free speech' right.

That's it from here in Boston.

WHEN WILL THEY GET IT!- Article from Screener-Central.com

This article was taken from Screener-Central.com
Contarary to the bullshit that is spoon fed to you during briefings by supervisors who censor information that is given to Screeners and the fuzzy feel good get togethers that the FSD and the AFSD do on an irregular basis, they're are sources of information out there on the internet. I am researching some of these and will include a list of links real soon to those of you who don't already know about these websites.


Pittsburgh Resignations Another Illustration of Widespread Corruption and Abuse

The recent resignations of three senior TSA officials at Pittsburgh International Airport are just one more in a series of blatant examples of an agency that is inherently corrupt and does its utmost to cover up wrongdoing until it can no longer deny it.

The three Pittsburgh officials -- FSD Robert Blose, AFSD Craig Martelle, and DFSD for Screening Bill Rough -- resigned following an investigation that culminated in a peer review board made up of other TSA officials, including FSDs from other airports.
TSA spokeswoman Ann Davis declined to discuss the investigation and would not say whether that led to the resignations, according to a report by the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.

What a shock. Even when the TSA knows that we know the reasons behind the "resignation for personal reasons" farce, the agency fals back into its old M.O. -- deny, deny, deny.

But what the TSA cannot deny is that the problems faced by sreeners in the form of abusive and corrupt senior management exist and that the problem is more widespread than it would like to believe.

Seattle-Tacoma. Buffalo. Pittsburgh. Sacramento. Guam. Saipan. Houston. Miami. Chicago. Albany. Portland.

Abusive management is all over, it seems. Threats and intimidation, retaliation, non-promotion of whistleblowers, shredding of documents, falsified reports and complaints against screeners, sexual harassment, failure to properly investigate criminal complaints, lying in response to Congressional inquiries, actively working to thwart employee's workers compensation claims, failing to maintain official documents...

And the EEO complaints keep piling up.

Three years of substantially poor treatment of screeners is still not enough, it seems. The TSA administration still turns a blind eye whenever it can. Only when there is concrete, physical proof of wrongdoing, when Congressional representatives inquire, and when the media reports on allegations of wrongdoing does the TSA take truly pro-active steps to eliminate the problem.

And in the end, the officials who are responsible for the abuses are allowed to "resign for personal reasons."

As far as I'm concerned, the officials who are found to have earned a trip to the exit door should be terminated from employment. Allowing them to "resign" is an insult to every TSA screener who has suffered at their hands, who has been wrongfully terminated, and who has suffered emotionally and physically from sexual harassment and retaliation.

According to one news report, "TSA employees at Pittsburgh International were told Tuesdday to let their three former managers pack their belongings and leave the airport quietly." Why? Those officials should have had to walk the gantlet, facing each and every screener on their long walk to their office, that enclave of mismanagement, to collect their personal items, and then faced those same screeners on their way out the door. As the door closed behind them, a mighty cheer and roar should be heard from inside.

Former TSA employee Burns said it well, I thought. ""I think they put the word out that they wanted to let these guys have some dignity and respect. Unfortunately, we weren't given any respect. We put up with their abuse for three years."

Amen.

Some of the same allegations made against the Pittsburgh officials have been made right here in Sacramento. Pittsburgh screeners complained that "they were sexually harassed... and complaints were not investigated. Accusers say they were intimidated. The alleged harassment included ... inappropriate hugging, threats involving sexual innuendoes...," all of which have happened at SMF as well as other airports around the country.

It's a shame that the TSA doesn't take all such complaints seriously. God bless the screeners in Pittsburgh who got some action, but I suspect that without Congressional intervention and reporting by the media the three abusive managers would still be there and most of the complaining screeners would be gone.

It's long past time for things to turn around in the TSA. Unfortunately a lot of people are going to have to go or have a rapid and complete change of heart for that to happen. It's more likely that the TSA will be disbanded than the idiots running things will actually decide to do right by their employees who are suffering injustices.

Catch a clue, TSA. You're managers are treating "your most valuable resource" like utter crap, and you're losing some of your best people because of it.

It's not too late for those at the top of the TSA food chain to redeem themselves. But it's going to take a lot. At this point I think it's going to take a lot more than they have. Desire is no longer enough.

Mark Arsenault
Webmaster, Admin, and Head Janitor
Screeners Central

LETTERS FROM SCREENERS-TALES FROM THE DARKSIDE

Dear Rogue Jew,


I left TSA 2 Months Ago: I spent over 2 years in the TSA and left just over 2 months ago. I would have to say that leaving was the best decision I ever made. I was lucky to have actually found a company where my degree mattered, and management is both competent and fair. You truly dont realize how poor TSA is until you have some time to sit back and reflect on your experiences. Here are the biggest negatives of TSA that I witnessed- PROMOTIONS- Joke. I actually had a lead above me with no formal education or job experience to speak of. On top of that the individual was 21 years old. This individual then got promoted to supervisor. I had a college degree, worked hard, and am working on my masters. Couldn't even make it above screener. Pathetic. Management sucks. Having worked for TSA I would say that airline travel might be marginally safer, but from what I witnessed most screeners are disatisfied and looking to get out. Not a place to build a career. Until some strong managerial material is hired, which will probably never happen, TSA will continue to be the disorganized mess that it is today!! Good luck to all of you still in. Have much respect for you. ITS GREAT WHEN YOU GET OUT!!

Dear Rogue Jew,

Yes getting out was GREAT!: I miss the people I worked with and I miss the way I felt when I first signed on to become a part of something good. I DON'T miss the DAILY intimidation, the upper management morons, and the outright lack of accountability from screening manager up. The organization will never improve until they acquire LEADERS in management, instead of what they have now- BULLIES. Hell, even an honest, intelligent bully would be an improvement.....

Dear Rogue Jew,

Leads & Supervisors !!!!: Heres my favorite part of my job (SARCASTICLY)... when theres a long ass line practically out the door and IGNORANT,LAZY WANNA BE's are sitting behind the checkpoint and decide to only get up to give stupid orders that dont really matter at the time instead of helping out. Gee, I dont really think that whether the wand is on the xray or tunnel is important, or if women make the metal detector ring its because "WE" didnt divest them properly...ITS CALLED JEWERLY AND PEOPLE WHO CANT OR REFUSE TO TAKE THEM OFF!!!!!! ALSO dont complain about who does what at what time or how and when , if your lazy behind just sits around and watches the screeners bust our asses, get yelled at all day and do more work than you!!! Yeah, you get paid more for what I have no idea and more than enough screeeners will defenitely agree with me on this one!!! So instead of taking those 2 or 3 stripes to YOUR HEAD dont forget you were a screener at one point in your life unless you CHEATED to get where your at!!! "WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND... eventually!!!!


Hi folks, I'll be up front with my identity, it's not a big deal to me. I'm Gil Miller, a former supervisor in case some of you may not remember me. I left the TSA in December of 2003. First let me say I don't miss the TSA at all. Quitting the job I had to take that job was probably one of the worst decisions that I had ever made, but from even poor decisions sometimes good things can happen. And I did make some friends there that I will never forget. Luckily, I was able to return to the job that I left for the TSA. However, from time to time I find myself wondering what is going on in the lives of my friends and former colleagues at CVG.

Dear Rogue Jew,

RE TSA policy on management bullying and indimitation techniques: Can someone let me know how to find the documentation that explains how TSA managers are supposed to use bullying and intimidation in the workplace? They are so very good at it I thought I'd like to study the techniques and guidance they use. The average small-minded and self important manager could take some pointers from these guys! I've never seen bullying and intimidation taken to such artful places, these people are genuine visionaries!

Dear Rogueish One,

Does anyone actually believe that any leads, supervisors or managers out there are qualified to be in the positions they hold? I am in FLL, and these people are horrible. I couldn't rate ANY of those I have worked with as truly capable or even remotely qualified. We have a manager with the personality of a bulldog and that went from a private "$8 an hour screener" to a federal screening manager making 4x that, just because the Government stepped in and said: "we want people that worked here before". . . Does that make sense seeing how they wanted to get rid of the idiots that were in those positions previously? And, as if It would take more than a month on the job. The problem is nationwide, a bunch of unqualified, lazy and overpaid Managers, at least some of the leads work. It's everywhere. Pretty soon the GOV will start pulling out, starting from the top.

Dear Rogue Jew,

Hell, man, we got a doughnut dollie as a supervisor(asst. mgr at doughnut shop). A forced retired army sergeant as another sup. A kollige graduwait with a major in history with no supervisory experience. A private eye as another(ooops, forgot, called someone a racial slur in front of witnesses for the fourth time and got his royal ass canned). Got a Screening Mgr retired from a major airline as a personnel vp that only wants to retire in a year with all that great fed. pension system. Got another SM that retired from navy as Captain(I think it was Capt. Krunch). Runs TSA as his own personal domain and very poorly at that. Too much seawater on the brain. Leads that could in private enterprises barely lead themselves to the shitter. Oh, well, so much for a well-oiled machine.

Dear Rogue Jew,

Hi. I'm your friendly baggage screener. I have a short survey for you to figure out if you also work in hell. 1. Do you regularly ship 55 gal. coolers of loose chicken parts? 2. Does at least 60% of your terminal speak another language? 3. Do you frequently work with 8 people for a shift with 1500 pax? 4. Does your managerial staff completely have their heads up their ass and/or someone else's? 5. Are you on LEAVE RESTRICTIONS? If you answered yes to all these questions, then I'm very glad to have you on my team, WELCOME TO HELL !!!

Dear Rogue Jew,

Come on man, get real. TSA management has been corrupt from: the god damn rollout. Cronies protect cronies. Do you really think that Washington DC is going to fire the very same people THEY selected for those positions? The TSA in nothing more than a safe-haven for inept managers that infested this organization. It started out with a noble casue but quickly turned into a dumping ground for ex-FAA morons and friends of those in high places. They have fired some FSD's, but only when they were forced to because the FSD no longer played their game. Ask anyone in Raleigh. The system is a waste of money and GSO is not any different from most of the other airports. One can only hope that Secretary Chertoff nukes the shit out of the screening system that has proven over and over again to be nothing more than a waste of money and effort. My advice to you remains the same, get out now and roll your time over to a real secure federal job. A job where you can work without the fear of being stabbed in the back by your co-worker. The grumbings in Washington aren't very TSA screening friendly lately.

AND THE LETTERS KEEP ROLLING IN. THE NAMES HAVE BEEN DELETED TO PROTECT THE INNOCENT AND TO KEEP THE SNITCHES AT BAY.

KEEP EM COMING.......THE ROGUE JEW

ADVICE ON HOW TO COMPLAIN TO THE RIGHT PEOPLE

Screener Information Alert.

We all know that going to the ombudsman and other sources have been useless to us when complaining about inept TSA management. Here is a tip I got from a email source recently. He said it worked in Orlando.


Going through your representative: will put you on the fast track for the ombudsman. This office now has to respond to a Senator or Congressman instead of an employee. It also helps to have many people on your side by bakcing up what you are saying and documentation is crucial. Also ask yourself, "Is what I am bringing forward worthy of a Senator's time?"

And yet, another tip...

I don't have a lot of confidence in either IA or Ombudsman but if enough people go to either one of them, you've got a chance that something MAY be looked into. All the FSD's that "left for personal reasons" were given ultimatums. A good number of those situations came about because folks had the nerve to make noise and bring problems to someone's attention. Goodness knows that sitting back and letting the crap happen over and over isn't going to make a difference. And if yours is the typical airport, your managers and AFSD certainly aren't going to take a stand for you. I know for a fact that Ombudsman's office keeps statistics on how many calls they get complaining about each airport and when the number gets high enough, they have to look into it. Go out on a limb, talk to someone. If nothing happens, at least you'll know you tried and even if yours isn't the straw that breaks the corrupt TSA official's back, it could be part of his/her undoing!

BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING ME!!!

Through my many sources within the TSA, I have come to find out that I am being watched and read on a daily basis by the administration and management. This bit of information makes me extremely happy. Their interest gives me great pleasure. I know it would be too much to ask that maybe they look into the allegations within these pages...one would think that they would want to look into them, but alas, their interest is just with me. Once again they would rather punish the victims rather then deal with the perpetrator. For example the sup that allegedly assulted 2 Screeners, or the sup that spends the entire shift in the office doing his college homework at the expense of the taxpayers, or even the sup that watches football for hours on end while on duty in the airport bar. How about the hour and a half lunches and the half hour smoke breaks? But alas, I may be only dreaming. In the meantime.................







THANK YOU FOR READING THIS!
BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING