[Gene Eric]

>> I have flown once since 9/11,

Traveled plenty of times since then overseas.

What’s happening today is #ing wild-ass bizarre!

Let’s not bludgeon our brothers and sisters at the gate. Instead, we need to challenge the ‘lawmakers’ in DC that are responsible for the violations of our Liberties!

[Smokin' Joe]

Airlines make political contributions. They have people who lobby in DC. If they flew empty or not at all for a week or two, the heat would go up in DC--maybe fast enough to end this crap.

Yes, we can protest, but if we don't show our revulsion for this by not submitting it won't make any difference.

Otherwise, there will be a brief two or three week flurry of 'horror' articles and letters to the editor and Congress, and then it will die out and the new 'norm' will be passively accepted, just as the confiscation of embroidery scissors and nail clippers was.