[Rummyfan]

I agree - it’s kabuki theater security and just an immense hassle, carried out by largely minimum-wage cretins and costs billions. But obama will never shut it down - yet another reason to vote Romney.

[driftdiver]

They also take extra time for people who speak up about how bad they are.

[Delhi Rebels]

I now know that “opting out” is only an “option” if you arrive insanely early to the airport or you enjoy tossing cash into the gutter.

See? It was a good learning experience.

[Little Ray]

Eliminate the TSA, DEA, BATFE, EPA, Dept. of Education, Dept. of Energy, Dept. of Health and Human Services, Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, Dept. of Labor, National Labor Relations Board, National Endowment for the Arts, NPR...

Purge the State Department.

Then everything remaining get its budget cut by 40%!

[econjack]

There's an influential book title An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution (Charles Beard, 1913) that outlines those duties and responsibilities that belong to the Federal gov't. In a nutshell, the Federal gov't is responsible for the policing of property rights (i.e., a legal system and a standing military) and the provision of social overhead capital (i.e., those things the private market won't provide, like a national highway system). Otherwise, the Feds should "butt out". There is no way they should be competing with private enterprise (student loans, SBA, bailouts, etc.). All of these additional area of interference are simply power grabs done to keep those setting policy in power.

[CitizenUSA]

I’m waiting for the sheeples:

“She would have reached her plane in plenty of time by striking a pose.”

“Certainly the TSA would never try and make life uncomfortable for those who opt out. The TSA is just doing its job.”

“Manual searches take a lot more time, waste TSA resources, and hold other travelers up.”

“This is about everyone’s safety, not just her. If she doesn’t like it, then don’t fly.”

[relictele]

TSA flunkies are the people who read about the Stanford Prison Experiment in a psychology or history class and considered it an inspirational tale.

[Molon Labbie]

All this TSA nonsense is because the leaders of this nation do not have the testicular fortitude to call the enemy, the enemy.

Everyone knows who is responsible for the heightened security we all have to deal with in our airports, train stations, and soon to be every damn place. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visible_Intermodal_Prevention_and_Response_team)

Pssst....it ain’t Christians and Jews, kiddos.

But no, most of the US will go shuffling through the TSA lines in preparation for the coming muslim abattoirs.

[Axelsrd]

I'm despise the TSA as much as the next person, but my daughter is a TSA agent in Boise and I need her to keep her job so she can pay for the car I just cosigned for. What's a father to do?

[Buckeye McFrog]

{this lamppost reserved for Michael Chertoff}

[Joe 6-pack]

Look at the little demonstration flyer taped to the wall in this picture...

..It looks like it was put up there by a six year old. Details matter, and to me, the sloppiness and slap dash matter that flyer was put up with, knowing that it was there for the traveling public at large, says a lot about the attitudes the TSA has for those passengers.

[tomkat]

TSA = NAZIS w/union

end of

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

There is agreement that the TSA should be eliminated. But what matters is the process to eliminate it.

To start with, the courts must be made to understand that profiling is *not* inherently bad. It is extensively used in Europe, and it works. America’s aversion to it dating to the Civil Rights era is “ancient history”.

Trying to create an illusion of “fairness” in security is just mind-bogglingly dumb. No, the odds of an elderly, Canadian Catholic woman in a wheelchair, traveling with her 5 year old granddaughter, being a terrorist, or being used by a terrorist, is infinitesimally tiny. Not worth it.

She is in no way comparable to a 30 year old Pakistani Muslim with a beard and turban, carrying a Koran, in a group of similar men. Stop pretending they are.

And stop pretending that “anybody” can look like a Muslim. While a minority of Muslims can look like non-Muslims, the vast majority of Muslims broadcast their beliefs clearly in their dress, luggage, language and behavior.

In practical terms, this means that instead of “fairly” oppressing *everyone* who wants to fly in aircraft, let the people of profiled groups know that they need to appear at the airport several hours early for a detailed examination.

As policy, they also can be restricted in how many of them can be on a particular flight, when and how they can conduct prayers in airports, etc.

It is *not* oppressive or racist. It just recognizes reality.

In any event, once the courts accept the new paradigm of security by profiling, *then* the TSA can turn over its function to private airport security.

And *then* the TSA can be dissolved.

[DBeers]

Osama is dead -so what?

Thanks to the Muslim 0zer0, Islam remains not only alive but now even more a threat to the West. Benghazi was but another one of many canaries in the coal mine of leftist delusion -another canary the pacifists and anti Americans attempt to bury and pretend away...

If the war is over WHY do we still staff TSA?

-Romney should ask these questions:
When is the TSA drawdown scheduled?
What date will TSA pullout from our airports?

Let us be real -IF the need that premises the existence of TSA continues THEN we are still at war. Killing Osama Bin Laden did not end the war BECAUSE the war was never simply against Osama Bin Laden -it was and remains a war against Radical Islam.

It is time to get rid of the TSA -not because the war is over BUT because the TSA is NOT screening for Radical Islamists.