Originally Posted by mozgytog

Nothing you do keeps me safe in any way, and even if it did, I wouldn't want you doing any of it. Do you understand that at all? You are part of a giant work-fare organization (and the fact that the stimulus money is being used to pay for all this 'equipment, training and experience demonstrates that) which is designed to provide the illusion of security to people who rarely venture outside their own home towns, but love to vote. It's also designed to line the pockets of people like Chertoff who have a major financial stake in setting up rules that cause the companies they hold stock in to make huge profits and pay out to shareholders.

I know you're proud of what you do. That's part of the problem that many people, including huge numbers of frequent flyers, have with the TSA and the people that it employs. The mindset that is selected for is so at odds with the American spirit that it's disheartening and embarrassing. It's time to dial the fear back a notch or three. There is absolutely no reason for us to have spent the last nine years on 'elevated' alert as a country, and even less for it to be constantly 'high' at airports.

I look forward to the day that ends and we go back to life as normal. That the scale goes down to green and eventually it's forgotten like the fallout shelters of the cold war. Do you have any desire at all for that day to come?