I AM an English teacher (retired) and a grandpa 8 times and dad of a state trooper chief. I like to think I've learned whereof I speak in the last 60+ years. And I knew 5 years ago when I STOPPED FLYING what the TSA was, what it was up to, and it all quickly turned into "Rent-a Barney Fife", while the REAL cops are out there dealing with reality.

NOBODY will EVER treat me as a criminal suspect in my own country again, and most certainly not the cretins who comprise the membership of the TSA. As I read the responses of the TSOs in this forum I am AMAZED any one ELSE is still lining up for these nitwits to frisk, detain, humiliate and madden however they wish in the name of SSI. Mission creep, in this instance, means a mission most literally MANNED by creeps.

And if you still think it's a good idea to support them by lining up, go for it.

I won't. My mama never did raise such a stupid child.

No singing lessons for the TSA yet, folks.