TUS: "inconvenient"... "assinine"

I would add "counterproductive" and "pointless".

Most of what you do is to reassure idiots. Very little of it makes us any safer. It consumes multi-billions of dollars. It drives many of us away from flying, flying less or not at all.

It is an honest job in the sense that you show up for work. But of the millions of passengers harassed, the best that can be said is that it's not too bad.

There IS NO RELATIONSHIP between this crap and the THREAT. It is VAST OVERREACTION. Your anecdote about the elephants is VERY TELLING. Your entire operation is a grand effort to keep elephants from rampaging here in Lexington, Kentucky. Wow! What a success!

IT IS KILLING AIRLINES and dissuading many of us from flying.

If we devoted this proportion of resources to common colds, we would be broke in a week.

"Torture" is a loaded term, meant to inflame. I have never seen my wife as angry as she gets being harassed in "randomized secondary" security. For her, this is absolute, pure torture, whatever your expertise from the government indicates.

The facts are that your bosses are pursuing the work of Osama Bin Laden by strangling American airlines much more thoroughly and successfully than he ever imagined. And it is your deputy sheriffs who want to fondle my crotch and screeners who want to separate my wife from her carry-ons while harassing her "because they weren't busy" who are doing irreparable damage to American airlines.

Your bosses are fools, and I will give you credit for being an honest employee, but if you buy that crap you are a fool too.