Maybe if you would try to participate with an open mind rather than blindly disregarding all posts not written by TSA employees, these discussions would be easier.

Read my post in this thread. While I did say that ID checks and boarding pass checks are silly, I actually did say we are safer now than we were before 9/11.

Other people may harp on the TSA for missing guns and bombs in tests, but I never do, even though I was always against the creation of the TSA in first place. TSA screeners aren't perfect and cannot be expected to find every single gun and fake bomb on an X-ray machine.

In other words, I am actually giving you some credit for making our skies safer! Please take this credit and stop insinuating that all posts not emotionally bashing the TSA are systematically disallowed from FlyerTalk, because it is simply not true.