In your case I certainly do see every reason to look at the leg. Frankly a leg could contain a lot of material that goes bang. So a visual inspection and swipe it with the explosives detection cloth would certainly be in order. Also, any time one is checking any part of a person and their things for explosives one would assume that checking the hands would be a good additional process. The rest of this sounds less necessary. But at least it sounds like they provided a same sex person to do this. The attitude I experience seems to be that I am a guy, and if I am normal getting felt up by a woman should not bother me.

I do have to wonder who after they find out you have an artificial leg, they have you go through all of the other intermediary steps.

However, to make security tighter, they hired a lot of average people complete with all their emotional baggage and gave them the power to control people like sheep. Equal employment at work. Can’t say no to somebody who wants a government job or you might get sued. I’m sure there are good people there too but if they reflect normal society, they are probably vastly outnumbered.

All I ask is that you consider their position before you criticize them too harshly. They see all the training videos and are probably scared stupid about all the stuff that could get by them. They know that it will be their fault if it does. They run you through the metal detector twenty times because they just want the problem to go away. When it doesn’t, they are mad because you are making their job harder so they punish you for it. That’s just what stupid people do. As long as you can say that you wouldn’t do the same thing if you had their responsibility, then my work here is done.

If you stress everyone and create an environment where security is the enemy of all that they are dealing with, then it is hard to tell those who are stressed by the contact with security, and those who are stressed by trying to get something by security. While if security is more friendly then those who are stressed for reasons that security needs to look at will stand out more.

I don’t know what their training is either but it is possible that they intentionally keep the stress levels a little higher just to freak out someone who is doing something wrong. Make them easier to spot.

Wouldn’t it be nice if we all got the Royal treatment, but congressmen get treated like congressmen and a guy with a piece of steel in his arm gets treated like a guy with a piece of steel in his arm. The masses never get respect from authority but lately we all seem to think we deserve it. That’s why I say we’re acting kind of spoiled.

Once in a while you will see a commoner get respect. Some people just have an air about them and they are usually always right when they demand service. Ask names and write them down, that always puts fear in the heart of a public servant.
I don’t know what to say Ray, the world isn’t nice to everybody. Never was and never will be. Sometimes you get treated like a piece of crap. You either refuse to tolerate it on the spot or you have to let it go.