Seattle restaurant engages in blatant discrimination

TSA are not law enforcement.

They are the authorized security workers in airports. It's effectively the same thing.

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 are sheep.

Yes, respect is earned. In the case of LEO's it's earned by going through the academy and putting on that uniform and badge. I have had the great pleasure of knowing more than a handful of LEO's from a wide variety of agencies (local, state, FBI, Border Patrol, Air Marshals, US Marshals, Secret Service, etc....) and they are among the most decent and honorable people I know. They and their brethren get the benefit of the doubt from me at all times.

If you have a problem with an officer, the right thing to do is to follow their orders and to make a formal complaint afterwards. Most people feel that there aren't too many things in this world which are worth getting yourself shot over.

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

If that's the sort of thoughts you have, welcome to my Ignore List.
 
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.

They're a little more than that and there are other TSA personnel that have full police powers in airports, they don't wear uniforms and they have the authority to shut the airport down if circumstances call for it.
 
Sounds like a good idea..

Could I refuse to serve telemarketers and car salesmen?
 
Sounds like a good idea..

Could I refuse to serve telemarketers and car salesmen?

Well, I refused to work on the design project for a new Planned Parenthood office a couple of yeras ago. Thankfully the other Designer was willing to do it because I'd have chosen to be fired before working on it.
 
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

What if those agents were girls from Hooter's. You'd have to pay them to pat you down.:lol:
 
How many of you wold be OK with someone turning away Vets b/c they didn't like what the military is doing?

They after all, didn't have to sign up.

Who cares? It's an asshole thing to do, but private business is private business. If they choose to refuse service, they can.

People can also choose to not patronize their establishments as well...
 
How many of you wold be OK with someone turning away Vets b/c they didn't like what the military is doing?

They after all, didn't have to sign up.

Who cares? It's an asshole thing to do, but private business is private business. If they choose to refuse service, they can.

People can also choose to not patronize their establishments as well...

Like the hillbilly restaurants down south who refused to serve black American soldiers who were going off to fight WW2 and die so those hillbillys could refuse service to THEIR familys yet served the NAZIs who were held prisoners of war in the US.:cuckoo:
 
How many of you wold be OK with someone turning away Vets b/c they didn't like what the military is doing?

They after all, didn't have to sign up.

Who cares? It's an asshole thing to do, but private business is private business. If they choose to refuse service, they can.

People can also choose to not patronize their establishments as well...

Like the hillbilly restaurants down south who refused to serve black American soldiers who were going off to fight WW2 and die so those hillbillys could refuse service to THEIR familys yet served the NAZIs who were held prisoners of war in the US.:cuckoo:

you really are a fucking idiot....you do realize its against the codes of war to starve the fucking pows?

do you think the south is the only place that did this...best look up north at the things done there.....but you are still a fucking idiot...well most likely a non fucking idiot....or at least not fucking within your species idiot
 
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.

In this job market, they may not be able to be too picky. You'd rather they were unemployed? I wouldn't. It is not their fault our government are abusing their power. How about we blame those who instigated the policy instead of those who carry it out? That would seem sensible to me.
 
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.

In this job market, they may not be able to be too picky. You'd rather they were unemployed? I wouldn't. It is not their fault our government are abusing their power. How about we blame those who instigated the policy instead of those who carry it out? That would seem sensible to me.

This is how the conversation went;

Boss; We are going to start doing pat downs.
TA; We can't do that. It isn't right.
Boss; Shame to hear you say that. Please turn in your equipment on the way out.
 
Nobody forced them to take the job.

In this job market, they may not be able to be too picky. You'd rather they were unemployed? I wouldn't. It is not their fault our government are abusing their power. How about we blame those who instigated the policy instead of those who carry it out? That would seem sensible to me.

This is how the conversation went;

Boss; We are going to start doing pat downs.
TA; We can't do that. It isn't right.
Boss; Shame to hear you say that. Please turn in your equipment on the way out.

Exactly. It appears we have become an unthinking, judgemental, shallow country.
 
[you really are a fucking idiot....you do realize its against the codes of war to starve the fucking pows?

do you think the south is the only place that did this...best look up north at the things done there.....but you are still a fucking idiot...well most likely a non fucking idiot....or at least not fucking within your species idiot

Did you sell your meds again?:lol:
 
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.

I might respect police, but they can forget deference. The only people who defer to authority are peasants.

By the way, TSA agents are not LEOs.
 
How many of you wold be OK with someone turning away Vets b/c they didn't like what the military is doing?

They after all, didn't have to sign up.

If a business wants to do that they are free to do so. I can always go somewhere else.
 
If you don't enjoy your patdown you don't have to fly

I prefer to fly with people who have been screened
 
How many of you wold be OK with someone turning away Vets b/c they didn't like what the military is doing?

They after all, didn't have to sign up.

There is a nightclub in Wilmington, NC that won't allow Marines to enter. Apparently, the owner has had too many problems with Marines from nearby Camp Lejeune getting into fights.

I don't agree with the owner's decision, but I absolutely support his right to cater his business to who he chooses for whatever reason.
 
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.

In this job market, they may not be able to be too picky. You'd rather they were unemployed? I wouldn't. It is not their fault our government are abusing their power. How about we blame those who instigated the policy instead of those who carry it out? That would seem sensible to me.

Do the soldiers of the Third Reich bear no responsibility for their acts because they were merely fighting for their country and following the orders of their Führer?
 
This is how the conversation went;

Boss; We are going to start doing pat downs.
TA; We can't do that. It isn't right.
Boss; Shame to hear you say that. Please turn in your equipment on the way out.

How do you know that's how the conversation went? Were you there when it took place?
 

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