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TSA Pats Down 3-Year-Old
3-year-old Mandy Simon started crying when her teddy bear had to go through the X-ray machine at airport security in Chattanooga, Tenn. She was so upset that she refused to go calmly through the metal detector, setting it off twice. Agents then informed her parents that she "must be hand-searched." The subsequent TSA employee pat down of the screaming child was captured by her father, who happens to be a reporter, on his cell phone. The video have left some questioning why better procedures for children aren't in place. I, for one, feel much safer knowing the TSA is protecting us from impressionable minds warped by too much Dora the Explorer.
The people training the Freedom Fondlers are part of the problem. What if they're hiring their friends? It could be like the Catholic church scandal, but this time, they've got the force of law behind them.
Speaking as someone who's had (well rather briefly) that training job before, we don't get to pick who gets hired. The TSA screens and picks them. We just train them. And the training is pretty easy. So you're not going to act as some sort of gatekeeper, even assuming you had discerning pedar that could pick out your own kind.
You're talking about two different things here; the grandparent poster was talking about effective terrorists, and you're talking about real terrorists. What does that tell you?