There are more than 10 million airline flights per year in the United States. In 10 years, that's 100 million flights.
We have 300,000,000 citizens.
During the past 10 years, how many jet airplanes have crashed into a citizen's home?
During the past 50 years, how many jet airplanes have crashed into a citizen's home due to terrorist hijacking?
During the past 50 years, how many jet airplanes have crashed into a citizen's home due to the fact that government officials failed to intimately grope the genitals of a terrorist?
The odds of your home getting smashed by an airplane because of a TSA failure are about as close to zero as you can possibly get. Do you also want the government to breathalyze every single driver on every single road before allowing us to get into our cars - many of which most likely pass along the road right in front of your house and might veer into you at any moment, or worse - might veer into YOUR car while you are peacefully driving along the highway sober?
I ask, because your odds of dying due to a failure of the Highway Safety Agency to breathalyze every citizen are HUGELY higher than your odds of death or damage from even a legitimate TSA failure.
But all of that COMPLETELY ignores the original point I made, which you seem to have missed. That point is, THE STUFF THEY ARE DOING IS IN NO WAY GUARANTEEING THAT THAT AIRPLANE *DOESN'T* CRASH ON YOUR HOUSE.
In light of that, please allow me to repeat my original point.
Neither the sexual assault of American citizens nor their irradiation using these machines are capable of stopping a determined terrorist from smuggling explosives on board. Neither can assure your security from the terrorists.
So why, then, are Americans being groped and irradiated? If that's not unreasonable search and seizure, I don't know what is.
And now I'll answer my own question. WHY? The answer is a liberal answer. It's so that you, and the other voters, will FEEEEEEEELLLLL good. It's so that you will FEEEEEEELLLL that something is being done to assure your safety, when in fact, the only thing they are assuring is the invasion of individual rights and psychological trauma of the 6-year-old kids who have some stranger stick their hands down the front of the kids' pants.
Both "security measures" are easily defeatable.
So, what are the odds of an airplane just falling out of the sky and landing on an intersection within 1/4 mile of your house and killing a driver who is on the phone with her husband discussing what he needs for their barbeque planned that evening.
One in a trillion?
Hmmmm, that happened right here!
What are the odds of a plane under the control of AlQaida terrorists flying over your house? Pretty slim, right? Well, happened here. They "turned left" in fact.
Myself ~ I've missed several flights that went down.
Stuff happens! I prefer that it be minimized.