whenever the TSA refuses to discipline an abusive employee and any TSA superior in the chain of authority who refuses to discipline the abusive employee.

In all too many cases, there is video footage of TSA employees abusing members of the flying public for no good reason. When there is video footage, fire them.

When there isn't video footage, let there be a hearing by impartial hearing officers. In this case, there isn't video footage. The TSA's position is that, in the absence of a video and the existence of denials by the TSA employees (who deny that they made a double amputee remove his prosthetic legs), the employees had done nothing wrong.

It wasn't too long ago when TSA employees abused their authority with respect to an elderly Joe Foss, the Marine Corps' top WW II ace and Medal of Honor recipient, by requiring him to turn over his Medal of Honor in order to continue to fly as a passenger to a function held in his honor in Washington, DC. A few months later he suffered a stroke and bled to death from a cerebral aneurysm. The antics of the employees probably didn't help.

Someone should be on site and be ready to fire abusive TSA employees whenever the need arises. Congress has the purse strings. It's time for them to do their jobs in controlling the TSA.

In a similar note, I was flying out of vegas several weeks ago, when I had the privilege (sarcasm thingy) of watching the last person in the group the could be another under ware bomber to be patted down, she was an eighty something year old grandmother from podunk, I could see and feel the humiliation and disgust in her face.

I was traveling with an older friend who read the signs exempting him from shoe and jacket removal. He emptied his pockets and went straight through the magnetometer, setting it off and causing him to be patted down. Why? Shoes had metal shanks. The signs didn't say anything about that, just said that he didn't need to take them off.

Allegedly those under age 13 and over age 75 don't have to remove shoes anymore. Now certain military members are exempted. At the rate this is going maybe they'll do away with the whole shoe dance in a few years.

The rest of us are second class citizens