Seattle restaurant engages in blatant discrimination

[Quantum Windbag]

Gotta love the free market. Anyone that disagrees with this is free to eat somewhere else, but they will get my business next time I am up there.

Fed up with what he views as crappy treatment from the TSA, the owner of a restaurant near Seattle-Tacoma International Airport has decided to put all TSA agents on his No-Eat List.
"We have posted signs on our doors basically saying that they aren't allowed to come into our business," one employee tells travel journalist Christopher Elliott. "We have the right to refuse service to anyone."
She says that whenever a TSA agent attempts to dine at the restaurant, "we turn our backs and completely ignore them, and tell them to leave... Their kind aren't welcomed in our establishment."
The restaurant claims that 90% of its patrons are in agreement with their stance and that the local police have actually helped escort TSA workers of the premises.

Seattle-Area Restaurant Refuses To Serve TSA Agents - The Consumerist

 

[Mr.Fitnah]

 

[rightwinger]

Maybe they should just make them go through a pat down before they can enter the establishment

 

[California Girl]

It's not the fault of the individuals that their job is an invasion of people's rights. It seems overly stupid to me. However, the restaurant has the right to refuse to serve them.

Punishing people for the job they do is about as stupid as discriminating on their skin color, religion, or anything else.

 

[Anachronism]

If I'm ever in Seattle I can guarantee you that's one place I most definitely will NOT be eating at. They can choose not to serve TSA agents, and I can choose not to bring my money into their establishment.

 

[Article 15]

But can you smoke there?

 

[R.D.]

A savy competitor could turn this into a goldmine

 

[Mini 14]

I wonder how it would go over if I decided to refuse to sell guns to union members?

They seem an incredibly violent lot, after all.

 

[Ringel05]

A savy competitor could turn this into a goldmine

Yup. How would you like your TSA agent? Fried, baked, fricasseed, skewered?

 

[Anachronism]

Yup. How would you like your TSA agent? Fried, baked, fricasseed, skewered?

I like mine treated with the utmost of respect and deference, thank you very much. Just like every other Law Enforcement Agent. Then again I grew up in a family where we were taught to RESPECT authority not to ignore or defame it.

 

[Ringel05]

Yup. How would you like your TSA agent? Fried, baked, fricasseed, skewered?

I like mine treated with the utmost of respect and deference, thank you very much. Just like every other Law Enforcement Agent. Then again I grew up in a family where we were taught to RESPECT authority not to ignore or defame it.

So humor is not one of you strong points, is it?

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

It's not the fault of the individuals that their job is an invasion of people's rights.

Nobody forced them to take the job.

 

[Anachronism]

So humor is not one of you strong points, is it?

Nope. Not at all. I had my sense of humor surgically removed as a child in order to allow my Ego to grow to its full size. Besides, there is absolutely nothing funny about an individual or business which disrespects the Law Enforcement community in any way.

 

[R.D.]

A savy competitor could turn this into a goldmine

Yup. How would you like your TSA agent? Fried, baked, fricasseed, skewered?

Not the direction I was thinking but

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

I like mine treated with the utmost of respect and deference, thank you very much. Just like every other Law Enforcement Agent.

TSA are not law enforcement.

Then again I grew up in a family where we were taught to RESPECT authority not to ignore or defame it.

Well, you and your family are a bunch of pussies. Respect is earned. It does not culminate with a title. Those who blindly follow authority without ever questioning it are sheep who deserve to be lead straight to the slaughterhouse.

 

[Ringel05]

So humor is not one of you strong points, is it?

Nope. Not at all. I had my sense of humor surgically removed as a child in order to allow my Ego to grow to its full size. Besides, there is absolutely nothing funny about an individual or business which disrespects the Law Enforcement community in any way.

Interesting. Maybe you should change your name to Analchonism. Just a thought.

 

[Anachronism]

Nobody forced them to take the job.

If the American public would utilize a little more common sense and basic logic, there wouldn't be so much of a problem. Most of the delays are caused not by TSA but by people who have to make a big deal out of little things or who cannot follow simple, basic rules.

I don't fly often, but I've never had an issue with airport security. I make sure there's nothing unusual in my bags. I have my paperwork ready when I walk up (including my ID). I don't wear or carry stuff I don't need on me or in my carry-on. I generally breeze right through Security without an issue.

 

[Mini 14]

TSA are not law enforcement.

So we're submitting to pat downs by a bunch of hobbyists?

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

TSA are not law enforcement.

So we're submitting to pat downs by a bunch of hobbyists?

TSA are not much more than mall security guards. They don't have the authority to arrest you. They have to call the airport or local police to detain someone.

 

[AllieBaba]

It's not the fault of the individuals that their job is an invasion of people's rights. It seems overly stupid to me. However, the restaurant has the right to refuse to serve them.

Punishing people for the job they do is about as stupid as discriminating on their skin color, religion, or anything else.

Punishing is over the top; but I have to say, it takes a certain type of asshole to pursue certain careers. I have very little use for debt collectors, for example. And I'm not particularly fond of anyone who works in certain positions of the IRS. They're ASSHOLES. And someone who can land those jobs has plenty of other options; it's amazing how marketable a clean record and a modicom of education is.