Originally Posted by
bfetch
What's forgotten is there was a significant change in liability assignment as part of the Patriot Act that established the DHS/TSA and thus the government assuming the liability for all commercial airline security.
What liability?
Do you really believe the US government will allow itself to be sued for damages in the event of another incident? And do you think the scumbags "in charge" of TSA will ever be personally accountable for anything with the present system?
Originally Posted by
bfetch
So yes, "eliminating the TSA" would not happen without the reassignment of liability back to something else other than the government and somehow I don't think you'll get too many commercial airlines to agree to that.
Agree, hell. The federal government needs to leave the airline/airport security racket immediately and inform the airlines and airports that once again the liability is all theirs. No agreement? No common carrier/operator certificate.