<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by TransWorldOne:
The security efforts are a joke... a very expensive joke, in fact. You and I live in the United States of America, not Saudi Arabia. If you want to live in a police state with no right to question authority, you're in the wrong place. The citizens of this country have a responsibility to ask questions-- this is a government of the people, for the people, by the people afterall.</font>
The Freedom's we enjoy in the United States have not been taken away.
The only point I'm making is that security has been increased and we are stopping security risk(s) from boarding planes, bring weapons or potential weapons through the TSA checkpoints and thwarting terrorists (Bad Guys) from mounting more attacks like 9/11.
We still have to be villigant and I am utterly amazed that so many FTers only see "$$$$ wasted" and no value or benefit from the security efforts taken after 9/11.
We still have weak links and areas that are not administered consistently (TSA Checkpoints, shipping a person to Texas as freight, etc.) but we have a improved our safety and security and are making the efforts to do a better job in the future.
RC