The real issue I have with all of this is that it's merely window dressing. NOT ONE SINGLE credible threat has been stopped by an airport pat down. No firearms that made it through the existing metal detectors, no bombs, no biological or chemical weapons. Yet, these invasive searches have become accepted after the initial uproar. Airlines are no more or less secure now than they were pre-9/11, but the ability of the .gov to infringe on your rights because of your choice in transportation has risen exponentially. Airport security has holes that one could quite literally drive a truck through. Biggest joke ever: We went on vacation to Hawaii in 2005. As my daughter-in-law worked for United at the time, we flew on buddy passes, and lucked out by getting first class seats from Hell-A to Maui. Dinner rolls around, and we're served on a ceramic plate, with a metal fork and spoon, a real glass drinking glass, and a plastic friggin knife. Exactly what did they accomplish by taking the dull metal knife away? "Congratulations! You've just foiled the world's stupidest terrorist..."

The TSA is a perfect example of a government agency in a runaway power grab, trying desperately to justify their existence. The "War on Terror" has given the .gov carte blanche to run roughshod over our Constitutional rights by holding up the terrorist boogeyman any time anyone objects.


Let's make their funding contingent on concrete, objective results, not nebulous threats that may or may not be credible.

Don't even get me started on them confiscating "large amounts" of cash...this is nothing more than extortion, on a mammoth scale.