Originally Posted by mecabq

...Plus, we may be acting a bit melodramatic and self-important here. I am as big a fan of FT as the next guy, but I am not sure that a handful of people posting sometimes interesting, often trite and overly florid rhetoric, anecdotes, and personal opinions would be of great value to the Secretary or Assistant Secretary of TSA, who (presumably) have more important things they should be doing. I have seen some decent points here, but very little that is particularly novel or that these folks haven't heard a million times before. Let's not overestimate the poignance of the body of material on this site.