I've been a manager in a federal LEO organization (a real LEO org., not like TSA's "square badges") for nearly 20 years. Thus I start w/ a presumption of goodwill and competence towards LEGITIMATE and COMPETENT steps to safeguard flying.

TSA has long since left behind either of those benchmarks and has become an out of control, unprofessional, arrogant, heavyhanded fascistic tool that does more to prove that the terrorists have won than any actual attack ...

We've handed over our freedoms in an absurdly ineffective and hole-laden kabuki security theatre, and your positing that those who are offended by TSA's lack of professionalism and its propagandistic bombast somehow give aid and comfort to the enemy only underscores the failure of you and your employer.

My colleagues and I would think TSA is a joke, only there is nothing funny about (a) its failure to effectively protect us; and (b) its absurdly incompetent and arrogant power grabs combining ignorance of scientific and technical peer-reviewed data with wholesale disregard for personal dignity and constitutional rights.