CTLR CLAIMS THAT THE TMC ORDERED TAXIING ACFT TO CROSS THE ILS CRITICAL AREA WHILE ARRIVING ACFT WERE INSIDE THE FINAL APCH COURSE.

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I WAS WORKING GND CTL DURING VERY INCLEMENT WINTER WX. WE WERE LNDG RWY 35R AND DEPARTING RWY 35L. WE THEN HAD TO SWITCH TO RWY 35L FOR LNDGS AS WELL AS DEPS SO THE CITY COULD PLOW SNOW OFF OF RWY 35R. WE STILL HAD NUMEROUS ACFT TAXIING BACK ON TXWY ZULU. AT INTXN ZULU 1 AND S THERE IS AN ILS CRITICAL AREA FOR THE RWY 35L ILS. WE ALSO HAVE RESTRICTIONS ON RWY 25 AND RWY 26R FOR TAXIING ACFT SINCE THE FINAL OF RWY 35L OVERFLIES THIS TAXI RTE. THE RESTRICTION IS FOR THE TAIL HEIGHT OF THE TAXIING ACFT; I.E.; AN LGT CANNOT TAXI ON EITHER RWY 25 OR 26R WHEN ACFT ARE LNDG RWY 35L DUE TO THE HT OF IT'S TAIL; WHILE AN MLG COULD. I WAS INSTRUCTED BY THE CAB COORDINATOR (CC) WHO WAS ALSO THE TFC MGMNT COORDINATOR (TMC) TO TAXI ACFT THROUGH THE ILS CRITICAL AREA EVENT THOUGH ACFT WERE CONDUCTING ILS APCHS WITH THE WX BELOW THE 800 FT CEILING AND 2 MI VISIBILITY AS REQUIRED BY THE 7110.65H (ATC HANDBOOK). I CHALLENGED THIS DECISION; AND WAS AGAIN ORDERED TO DO THIS. I TAXIED A COUPLE OF ACFT AS INSTRUCTED. AGAIN; SEEING THE DANGER IN THIS OP; I CHALLENGED THE USE OF THIS PROC; STATING THAT IT WAS AGAINST THE RULES AND VERY DANGEROUS. I REFUSED TO PUT ANY MORE ACFT THROUGH THE ILS CRITICAL AREA WHILE ACFT WERE INSIDE THE OM. THE TMC SAID; 'YOU ONLY HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THIS IF THE ACFT STOP IN THE CRITICAL AREA; THAT THEY CAN TAXI THROUGH IT WHILE ACFT ARE ON FINAL.' HE THEN STATED THAT; 'IF YOU WON'T DO IT; I WILL PUT SOMEONE IN THERE THAT WILL.' I EVOKED ARTICLE 65 OF THE NATCA/FAA CONTRACT THAT DEALS WITH A PROFESSIONAL DIFFERENCE OF OPINION WITH FACILITY MGMNT. HE IMMEDIATELY HAD ME REMOVED FROM POS. I STATED I WANT TO FILL OUT A NASA RPT AND UNSATISFACTORY CONDITION RPT (UCR). THERE WERE 2 AREA SUPVRS IN THE TWR CAB AT THE TIME HAVING A CONVERSATION AT THE BACK OF THE CAB; AND NOT PAYING ATTN TO WHAT WAS GOING ON. EVEN AFTER THEY HEARD THE COMMOTION; THEY DID NOTHING TO INTERVENE. AFTER I WAS RELIEVED FROM POS BY THE TMC; I WAS TOLD TO LEAVE THE TWR. THIS; I ASSUME; WAS TO ALLOW ME TIME TO FILL OUT THE RPTS. I HAVE ELECTED NOT TO FILL OUT THE UCR UNTIL AFTER I SPEAK WITH UPPER FACILITY MGMNT TO GIVE THEM THE OPPORTUNITY TO FIX THE PROB LOCALLY. THIS IS NOT AN ISOLATED INCIDENT. SINCE THE INCEPTION OF THE TMC POS IN DEN TWR; THERE HAVE BEEN MANY QUESTIONS (WHICH GO UNANSWERED) ABOUT THE ROLE OF THE TMC AND WHAT RESPONSIBILITY THEY CARRY. THERE HAVE BEEN FAR TOO MANY COMMENTS FROM BOTH CTLRS AND LOWER LEVEL MGMNT THAT IT IS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE WE HAVE AN ACCIDENT BECAUSE OF ALL THE INEXPERIENCED CTLRS WE PICKED UP FROM THE ACADEMY AND ALL OF THE DIFFERENT RULES BEING IMPLEMENTED BY DIFFERENT PEOPLE. IT IS HARD TO TELL WHICH RULES WE ARE OPERATING BY ON ANY GIVEN DAY. IT ALL DEPENDS ON WHO IS RUNNING THE SHOW.