Traveller Receives Nasty Little Note From TSA Luggage Inspector

Suitcase surprise: Rebuke written on inspection notice
By Susan Gilmore for the Seattle Times.

Seth Goldberg says that when he opened his suitcase in San Diego after a flight from Seattle this month, the two “No Iraq War” signs he’d picked up at the Pike Place Market were still nestled among his clothes.
But there was a third sign, he said, that shocked him. Tucked in his luggage was a card from the Transportation Security Administration notifying him that his bags had been opened and inspected at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. Handwritten on the side of the card was a note, “Don’t appreciate your anti-American attitude!”
“I found it chilling and a little Orwellian to have received this message,” said Goldberg, 41, a New Jersey resident who was in Seattle visiting longtime friend Davis Oldham, a University of Washington instructor.
Goldberg says that when he took his suitcase off the airplane in San Diego, the zipper pulls were sealed with nylon straps, which indicated TSA had inspected the luggage. It would be hard, he said, for anyone else to have gotten inside his bags.
TSA officials say they are looking into the incident. “We do not condone our employees making any kind of political comments or personal comments to any travelers,” TSA spokeswoman Heather Rosenker told Reuters. “That is not acceptable.”


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Saturday, March 15, 2003 – 12:00 a.m. Pacific
Suitcase surprise: Rebuke written on inspection notice
By Susan Gilmore
Seattle Times staff reporter
Seth Goldberg says he found this notice

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