As irrational as the creation of the TSA was, vastly founded on the public's emotional and psychological reaction as played by politicians, so much of the opposition to it seems equally irrational, landing in the public marketplace as the warped rantings of the paranoid and conspiracists, and discredited therefrom.

1. Not only are they not going to be lugged of to jail for imaginary sex crimes or reams of unwarranted search and siezure, the TSA bindlestiffs will be with us always (if there's an always).

2. Tub-thumping and over-blown rhetoric is not going to get rid of the TSA, no matter how personally offensive the actions of its employees and processes may seem to you.

3. The bottom line: Most folks encounter its over-reach only rarely (the few times they fly) or never (those who don't fly at all). The TSA and its actions fall far down the list of things at which they are offended enough to respond. Many believe/imagine that it makes them safer, a grand recipe insuring that Congressfolk and Senators are unlikely to change it much if at all.

Emoting into the sounds of the surf (the noisy waves of FT)to improve the strength of your oration remains an ineffective method of stimulating political change. Unless you - and many of you - can convince your individual Congress member and Senator to change the TSA, the changes which occur may simply infuriate you more.