I think your reading of me as someone who's not a member of "us" is incorrect. I've been plenty critical of TSA in this forum. And I started my remarks on this thread stating that I was against turning TSOs into LEOs.

What I was trying to point out is that trying to turn TSOs into legitimate LEOs would involve such an expenditure of time and money, and be accessible to so few TSOs, that it might actually demonstrate how far TSOs are from LEOs: a point that many of us here feel is lost on the public in general (and TSA in particular). Deputizing TSOs might actually work to "our" advantage in the long run.

But clearly I'm making too subtle a point. Off to goalie's penalty box I go ...