your broadbrush accusations are no better than those at whom you point fingers.
As a federal employee who wears a badge when on duty, not law enforcement but in a Public Trust position. I get that there may be some who are authoritarian leaning but I'll bet there are fewer than you might anticipate.
Please stop yourself from further embarrassment now.
We are not all out to get the innocent just to be good brownshirts. We have families, it is not easy to get these jobs in the Public Trust arena, and TSA employees are not paid much either, take all kinds of abuse from the traveling public and are responsible for far more than you give them credit for with their duties. I suspect that those of you who have never served as a pubic servant might not catch the grittier details of wearing a federal uniform.
I am offended by your post and might have alerted but I would rather you read what I have to say instead.
If you weren't there then..?
I am not defending what happened and I wonder at the mindset of those who were the actuaries in these offenses but then, when you wear the uniform, you obey your orders... unless they are illegal and you can prove it, same as in the military, if you can object in good conscience and the orders are illegal you have an obligation to report or refuse... it will be a long and hard road feeding your family after that.
And who told these workers all the details of the order? I'm sure that, like we see in our civilian police agencies, there are fascists in their ranks and those were probably the ones enforcing these abuses... but it was not every last one of them.
If you have complaints, investigate and get the facts... remember those? Then you can make your assumptions.
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