Originally Posted by
Spiff
USA Today Article
Mr. Elliott is right. It's a disgrace how many have rolled over for TSA. Your representative is up for reelection this midterm. If he/she supports TSA, definitely vote for someone else. This disgusting, un-American agency should be kicked out of all USA airports and its employees should be charged with crimes ranging from sexual assault to theft to impersonating a medical doctor/law enforcement officer. Its scumbag "leaders", past and present, should be imprisoned for life.
No Federal candidate will come out against TSA. A large number of current Reps and Senators are against TSA, but the political reality is that they're trapped. If they call for rolling back TSA, they'll be accused by the other side as being weak on terrorism. If an attack were to happen after TSA was rolled back, then they would be thrown out of office for rolling back TSA. Regardless if TSA clerks would have prevented the attack.
Always remember that on 9/11, the hijackers boarded the planes all legal. They didn't have machine guns, they didn't have explosives, they didn't have freaking dolphins with freaking lasers on their freaking heads. They boarded with box cutters and blades that were allowable on all domestic commercial flights that day. Whether it was TSA or the minimum wage guys who used to do security, neither would have prevented 9/11 with the rules in place that morning.
Thus, we have the ever expanding "gee, maybe it's the shoes/belts/batteries/bottles of water/whatever" whack-a-mole approach to security these days. We're closing in on 8 years (August 2006) in the War on Water. Eight freaking years since we were able to take a bottle of water, a cup of coffee or a full-size tube of tooth paste through airport security. Everyone except the paranoid and those looking to make money and/or political hay off of it has known it's stupid since about 8 years ago. Yet, even with Pre-Check and everything else, the ban remains.