Hi Castro Benes! Welcome to FT! We are always happy to have TSOs here. Please note that the abuse you will take is nothing personal.

What you have described is what frustrates us. I think everyone here would agree that we need some level of security at the airport. I think we would also agree that there are parts of the TSA that have potential, but the organization has been mismanaged into the ground, potentially beyond repair.

Airline traffic certainly is different, but hijackings aren't nearly as much of a threat as they were before 9/11. Between the reinforced cockpit doors and the fact that passengers will no longer sit back with hijackers on board, we're probably done for now on airplanes.

Okay, the frustration: It is impossible to be 100% safe. Risk-management is what we should be striving for, not risk-avoidance. It is certainly impossible to do it without trampling all over the Constitution. And the lack of consistency from the killer clowns at the top is being written off as being done on purpose to mess with the terrorists. Yeah, right.

In any case, we hope that you will continue to post, remember that IJAFIBB and let us know what you hear.

Mike