I hope you do go to law school, as you have the background and reasoning ability needed to be a good lawyer. ^

However, about that last statement: In law school there should be a class that mentions your statement is called the "Nuremberg Defense". I can't say more or Mr. Godwin will smite me.

As for your other statement: "What many of you fail to realize is that it does not take a rocket scientist to identify a drug that may be illegal."

Eagle eyed TSOs can simply look at something and identify not only its chemical composition (drug substance) but it's intent (legal or illegal). I did not realize the TSA job qualification for screeners included "must possess gas chromatograph/mass spectrometric ocular ability and ESP ability on inanimate objects." Where do they find 40,000 such qualified people?

Without getting into whether or not they should be doing so (yes I have a strong opinion one way), what you may fail to see is the frustration of frequent flyers who deal with TSOs who can make such detailed chemical analysis and intention calls about some things, yet cannot look at a bottle of water, a cup of yogurt, and a block of cheese and determine their chemical composition and intent: "That there's a bottle of water, a cup of yogurt, and a block of cheese!" and present no danger of blowing a large hole in the sky.

It is the absurd hypocrisy of TSA's selective determination of the chemical composition of some objects but not others that demonstrates a lack of consistency by a government regulatory agency that we the people find unacceptable.