My Hero
This pilot is my new hero : A Tennessee pilot who says he’s tired of being manhandled by security agents is waiting to see if he will lose his job because he refused a full body scan. ExpressJet Airlines first officer Michael Roberts was chosen for the X-ray scan Friday at Memphis International Airport. The Houston-based pilot says he also refused a pat-down and went home. The 35-year-old Roberts told The Commercial Appeal newspaper he wants to go to work and not be “harassed or molested without cause.” Transportation Safety Administration spokesman Jon Allen says a person was turned away after refusing to follow federal security procedures but declined to say if it was Roberts, citing privacy considerations. Roberts says he has safety concerns, but called TSA a “make-work” program that doesn’t make travel safer. Wouldn’t it be great if the flying public as a whole were to rise up and tell the TSA to shove it? We’re tired of being treated as “guilty until proven innocent” and watching these janitors with a badge push people around. Start screening the people who fit the terrorist profile and leave the rest of us alone.
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on October 20, 2010. Filed under