Originally Posted by
larry91403
We have to stop treating everything like a popularity contest. <snip>
Perhaps it wasn't your intent but this post and your previous one come off as dismissive.
Suggesting that "lay people" -- btw, what exactly do you mean by that? -- aren't competent to judge the TSA's effectiveness raises the serious question about who is. If laypersons are incompetent to understand why the TSA does what they do how are our duly elected laypersons any more competent? The fact that is we do have the right to question our representatives' judgement and by extension the agencies they create and the impact their rules have on us as we go about our daily affairs.
Originally Posted by
pjhaas57
How many people think that smuggling weapons and unsafe materials on board a plane is a constitutionally protected right?
No one here that I know of -- pro or contra TSA -- thinks that, and I've been around here since the beginning.
What else ya got?
