Of course, it's a matter of opinion. I believe it's the nit-picking that upsets people. We'll all in a hurry and when they are worrying about something small like, recently, a nipple piercing, it gets annoying. These laws they come up with are absurd, you can't bring on nail clippers? How are those dangerous? You can stab someone with them or perhaps the nail file on them? Pens are allowed and can be used to stab someone with less difficulty. Really, if someone wants to smuggle something in to harm the pilot or whatnot, I think they can find something. Overall, I'm sure the system stops a lot of people from thinking about doing minor crimes, but I don't think it's going to stop the real bad people. It just slows things down. I miss the days where people could wait for arriving passengers at the gates.

Some of them are unintelligent and uncivil. They're power hungry and aggressive, too. http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-real-laptop-causes-owner-to/ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1621459/posts

I don't get mad, but I do get frustrated at the inconsistant screening methods and that many of them do (my observation) have the attitude of someone working a first job at McDonalds. Though over the past couple of years I've seen improvement.

because... their idiots??? i`ll let you decide who`s the idiots.

I don't get mad. Its just kind of a hassle.

because when they are stripping me down to my skivvies because I had three lighters with me there's CIA Operatives sticking bombs on planes. But IMHO they should use some of that money they are wasting on useless security to fix their planes, the suckers are literally falling apart mid-flight

one word: idiots!

They have gone alittle power-mad since the gov't lets them believe that the security of the nation is squarely on their shoulders, and that they can (and do) treat people however they want with no recourse. Now, I'm not saying this is 100% of them, but I fly enough to have been hassled for no reason too many times. Just act like jerks sometimes.

I think you will find that the majority of passengers passing thru TSA security don't get mad but only a small percentage who are either in a hurry, feel singled out, or are having a bad day for one reason or another and just take it out on the TSA workers. I think too the subjective approach by some TSA workers upsets some people as one airport has one rule and another has different rules. The only thing consistent is inconsistency (but perhaps that is the plan?

yes, the passengers. they scream protection, and then they cry like babies when they have to go through a little search. give me a break. either accept the security measures or risk being blown to pieces by some idiot that boarded the plane because you felt a search or the security screening was too much! aw-w better yet, just shut up and take a train! i've traveled all my life and i am screened every single time;even when i traveled w/my 2 small babies.it was an inconvenience but a small one in trade of some jerk boarding the plane and taking our lives.

Simple, they don't profile.

That's something I've never understood. Just like I can't figure out why people get mad when they're asked for the id when they write a check or use a cash/credit card. These things are all to protect us.

I guess I didn't mind them until they took my brother's blanket away from him (he was two at the time). They literally had to rip it out of his hands which caused him to start crying because of course he was a little scared to begin with and his blankie was what made him feel safe. I guess, they thought that we were trying to hide something?

Because it's just "security theater". Taking away water bottles doesn't make you safer and no one is hijacking planes with toenail clippers.

Metropolitan Washington Airport Authority Police beat up a girl at Reagan National Airport, throwing her across the room into a person and a metal chair. Then they picked her up and threw her against a table. After that, they bashed her head into that metal table, giving her a concussion. Then they twisted her arm so hard that it was about to break.

The vast majority of the passengers I've seen are polite. It helps that I usually fly from a very small airport, and the TSA guys and gals can recognize most of us by sight. That being said, I think a lot of people are frustrated because so little of what the TSA does makes sense. Yes, I know you're going to tell me that their reasons are Top Secret (TM), but the truth of the matter is that I no longer trust our government. The current administration has always told us to trust them because they're trying to Keep Us Safe, but we've got an economic system in shambles and a health care system that's going to implode. That doesn't make me feel safe, and I'll trust them again when they earn it.

This is what made me unhappy but I didn't say anything. I was too amazed. The stupidity. Last week I'm leaving Mayo's Clinic in Rochester and guy keeps checking my shoulder in the booth because it sets the hand held wand off. 3 times he checks my shoulder after he see's the fresh cut from my neck down my shoulder and telling him there is a big steel ball in there. My arms in a sling and I'm barely getting around. I lift up my t-shirt because that's all I can get on and lift up the gauze so he can see it. He starts to mess with the gauze. What an idiot, I'm nearly naked. Three times he messes with it.

I don't mind that much, and it's probably because I do my homework and make sure I comply with all the rules. I take out all electronics, and anything they might think is dangerous. They usually don't care when you overdo it, it's the people who don't comply at all, that get screened. I fly about once every two months --so I know the drill, such as my laptop bag with the gazillion cables in it, they search it. They told me because all the cables are suspicious. BUT what bothers me the most is how if you are late and rushing, that it is a RED FLAG for terrorism and suspicion (such as for connection flights, and the random security checks in the line to board the plane). If you show them, look this is my flight. Look, they are calling my name over the loudspeaker. They still think you are suspicious. Yet, at the end of the day, it's a lose-lose. If they don't check, and someone makes it through, then people would say, "Why didn't TSA do their job?" If they do check, and the person is clear, then people complain. We can't have it both ways. I suggest being aware of the [unfortunate] 9,129 pages of TSA guidelines (which also change monthly).

Getting at the tsa screeners - now that's an awesome idea