Answer truthfully, the TSA worker informed her, and everything will be OK.Ah yes--the same mentality that pulls the wings off flies.
Solomon, 5-foot-3 and traveling alone, looked up at the man in the black shirt and fought back tears.
Put yourself in her place and count out 20 seconds. Her heart pounded. She started to sweat. She panicked at having to explain something she couldn't.
Now picture her expression as the TSA employee started to smile.
Just kidding, he said. He waved the baggie. It was his. [More]
He has authoritah! You must obey him! Your emotions are his to toy with!
Why shouldn't they be? He's empowered to abuse you with no repercussions. What do you expect--respect?
Thing is, and with many such tales, we know the citizen's name--we don't know who the pig--and that's what he is--is. And we're not going to find out.
Davis said privacy law prevents her from identifying the TSA employee. The law prevents her from disclosing what sort of discipline he might have received.Pity that. It means when people have finally had enough, they're liable to take it out on the parties who only abetted things through complicity and silence, as opposed to the "Only Ones" actually responsible for generating deserved hatred.
[Via Brian F]