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"Executive order - let the airports hire their own security like they did pre TSA."

I like that idea. Also using the National Guard (DHerion).

I'm old enough to remember before TSA was a thing, and after 9/11, armed Guardsmen providing security at airports. And doing a very good job at it.

I'm also old enough to remember when there weren't metal detectors, you could go to the gate to dropoff/pickup friends and loved ones, when hot meals were served on airplanes, and when the armrests came with ashtrays.

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And families could watch planes takeoff and land from windows near the runways. And kids flying on the plane would get cockpit tours from the pilots.

Then came the religion of pieces. Diversity is the left's strength.

Ah - when I was a wee lad. My family dropped my grandparents off at the airport for their trip to Europe. This was just before metal detectors showed up in airports and we walked all the way down and sat with them at the gate and watched them board. I recall a later trip for them where the airport had setup the security checkpoint before the gates. 2 collapsible tables and a walk through metal detector that was aerodynamically styled.

My first job, pre 9/11, was out of state so I flew back home fairly often and I’d arrive at the airport 15 minutes before departure, sprint through the terminal, threw my bag through the metal detector and would hop on just as they closed the doors!

It’s no fun now