I think this exchange is getting a bit silly. Some here don't seem to be differentiating between being an editor or moderator and being a censor. TSA has every legal right to filter which comments end up on the blog any way it wishes. However, failure to openly and explicitly acknowledge that critical comments are far more likely to get filtered than those by TSA cheerleaders is to be dishonest and deceitful.
But more importantly, this isn't the main issue here. Look at what Blogdad Bob is trying to do with his post! He mentions 9-11 and what a tragedy that was, and then mentions the TSA, as if somehow the establishment of agency that routinely abuses air travellers, that engages in a propoganda effort that is as shameless as it is extensive and deceitful, that systematically attempts to confuse, defraud and mislead air travellers by promoting discredited, fantasy "threats" such a shoe bombs and liquid explosives, that resists any efforts at accountability by refusing to provide testimony at or otherwise participate in Congressional hearings on passenger complaints, and that has responded to efforts at bringing public attention to its numerous failures by prosecuting the whistle-blowers, is somehow related to those events.
Yes, 9-11 was bad. It does not follow, ipso facto, as Blogdad Bob is trying to suggest, that the TSA is good. Nothing he writes in his Goebbels-esque propoganda piece does anything to weaken the far more credible argument that as bad as 9-11 was, the reaction to it -- creation of the TSA, the NFL, the invasion of Afghanistan (or what I like to call the 4th Anglo-Afghan war), the invasion of Iraq, kidnappings, torture, Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, etc. etc. -- have all been far worse. 9-11 killed 2700 people. 100s of thousands have died from the response, and thousands more suffer non-lethal consequences, including being subjected to harassment, torture and illegal imprisonment.