Wiretaps, TSA, and Homeland inSecurity are just smoke screens. Stop gap measures and expansion of Federal power. It has little to do with real safety.
Exactly. Of course, that can be said of virtually everything that goes on in government.
I have long championed the notion that just a few guns on 9/11 could have saved 3,000 lives. The way Washington has dragged its feet in arming pilots is all the proof I need that politicians aren't the least bit concerned for the rest of us.