[Morgan]

I have much to say on this subject...first let me say I am appalled by the actions of these TSA workers. However, it happens everywhere, from police officers to Priests and anywhere a person is in power, but it does not mean we stop trusitng law enforcement officers or stop going to Church.

I would like to share my personal story after 9/11, I can truly say what happened that day impacted my life....and sickened me to the core. I have never felt so angry as I did on that day, and I felt so friggin powerless. I was living in Maine at the time and was ready to jump in my car and head to New York City, I was stopped by my partner at the time and realized I could not do anything that day to help. So I watched in horror as the building collapsed and prior to that I saw people jumping to their deaths on the television in my livingroom.

A few days later, I got a call from my guard unit, asking if I would volunteer for an assignment to the airports, standing guard with a loaded M-16 rifle, and you can best bet I had enough ammunition to blow those mother f....cking terrorists back to afghanistan. I carried 100 rounds on my person and in my weapon, I was ready and people stopped and thanked me for being there. People were scared and people were angry, but we had to fly, we had no alternative, but to take our airports back. This was our right, we should not have had to fear flying or any other mode of transportation, who gave them the right to take away our freedom. I swore to myself that I would protect you and anyone else, that needed protection....

Five months from the day in which I got to the airport, I applied for the first ever TSA security positions in the US, it was a supervisor position, I was sent to Chicago and passed the written, physical and emotional tests for the job. Many people did not pass and were escorted from the hotel, this numbered in the thousands. A few weeks later I was sent to Oklahoma City, for training to begin federalizing the airports. The individuals who trained me were retired and ex-federal officials from the secret service, FBI and CIA department. They had no experience in screening at the airports, but knew how to look for terrorists and people that were not on the up and up...they trained us for 2 weeks, on everything from screening bags, pat downs, screening passengers, x-ray machines, and facial expressions. We learned what we needed to know to protect all the people in the airports from flying with a terrorist, who did not give a f..ck what happened to you or any other American. I trained so that I could go to the airports and train other screeners how to also protect you and everyone else, we started with Baltimore, then I headed to JFK, LaGuardia, and Houston Hobby...then I was sent back to my airport in Maine. While in NYC I had a chance to see the pit which once stood the Twin Towers and I cried, for all the people who lost their lives and their loved ones, but mostly I cried, because in one day we lost our faith in humanity....and the right to believe that we are all safe.

I know that TSA is not perfect, but tell me one career that is and I will call you on it. They are there to protect your freedom and your rights....there are some bad apples and I say punish them....they are stupid, selfish, idiots and deserve to be punished.

Sorry about my rant, but I am passionate about this and although I only worked with TSA for three years, many of my friends still work there and are hard working, honest individuals who want to make your life safer.....