I am not advocating anything. The fact is, in an airport, it basically is a "police state". Nobody really has rights, in an airport. For that matter, if an agent became that rude, the passenger could probably call the police on the agent, saying they were threatened.
I am not advocating that agents should be allowed to be rude. I am only warning, that I worked for an airline, in an airport, for two years, all post 9/11. Airports have basically become a "police state", and it is often times better to just keep comments to one's self, than risk being arrested.
One of the agents I used to work with, for example, was getting into an argument with a disgruntled passenger. The passenger was twice this agent's size. The agent felt threatened, even though the person never "did" anything threatening. The agent finally asked the guy, "did you just say bomb?". He, of course, didn't say bomb, but it certainly backed this passenger down. That was completely wrong on the part of the agent, but had the agent called the police, who do you think would have been hauled off in handcuffs? I am just saying, be careful, because many of these airport police officers are friends with the agents, and will always take the agent's side, whether they have a legit reason to call, or not.
Threatening may not be against the law, but in an airport, I have seen MANY passengers escorted, in handcuffs, for being "threatening" to an agent.
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