I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that a lot of us probably feel that TSA per se is not the problem. The problem is that we have a renegade agency that was created hastily as a knee-jerk reaction to 9/11 and is being administered in a dictatorial way and by leaders who are not in touch with the balances between security and freedom. This agency has not been held to proper channels of accountability and that is why there is now pushback on them.

I will speak for myself here:

I have nothing against security. I would like to know that when I board a plane, that I can expect a reasonable amount of screening has been done to ensure that we are safe. I certainly don't want anarchy and I hope that we never see another 9/11. But at the same time, we cannot have an agency that is unchecked by the balances of power that exist in this country. TSA and DHS must be held accountable to the American people and there must be strict Congessional oversight with harsh penalties for failure to comply with pre-agreed upon standards. Without this, you have a terrific recipe for abuse of power which is exactly what is occuring.

*Note: I specifcially use the word "agreed-upon". This is not a dictatorship. TSA cannot be allowed to make up the rules as they go and foist them upon us without proper review and oversight. Again, this is what has happened and this is why we have more and more people saying, "wait a second, someting smells fishy here".