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Here's my experience...i was stopped at LAX; "flagged" as they say. asked to step aside and be searched. They asked if I would like to step into a secluded room, but I said no way. I can't imagine getting into a private room with these dolts; they could do whatever they want. No strip/cavity search for me. Anyway, I was told to empty my left pocket. The TSA agent scanned my left pocket and then when nothing was found, asked me to empty my right pocket. That came out negative too. Then he scanned my left pocket again and asked me to empty it, like I had put something in it right in front of him! He did the same with the right pocket!
There was so much more, but it gives me an ulcer to think about it.
The TSA is a joke, uninformed, underpaid, and under-qualified employees that help to propagate the fear of terrorism that the gov't wants us to believe is alive and well...a joke at best - its a wonder that airlines are doing so poorly...
