Originally Posted by JSmith1969

You're ignoring the very important fact that very little of what TSA does makes anyone safer, and that many people know it. The shoe policy, for instance, is ridiculous -- no one has tried to use shoes as a delivery device for explosives in nearly a decade, because shoes are a lousy delivery device for explosives. There have been no shoe bombings in countries without a shoe carnival, there were no shoe bombings in the US before the shoe carnival was made mandatory for absolutely no good reason, there have been no shoe bombings since the carnival was made mandatory. Screening demonstrably has nothing to do with whether people use shoes to put bombs in. Yet TSA persists with a pointless, unhealthy policy that does nothing to make anyone safer and much to make security longer and more unpleasant.

The same could be said of the liquid policy, the international restrictions, the strip-search machines, the gate groping, the liquid checks of beverages at gates -- just about everything you do is an idiotic waste of time, conceived in a bed-wetting panic, untethered to any concern with reality or cost-benefit analysis. TSA's main function appears to be to do to our own society what the terrorists could not do themselves. Your agency is a pathetic joke that deserves every single bit of the widespread scorn, derision, and hatred Americans have for you. And everyone who puts on a TSA uniform in the morning should be ashamed of themselves.