Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. The TSA is not doing this to keep us safe. If it was about keeping us safe, they would have begun doing it immediately following the underwear-bomber's attempt last December. No, this is about power and control. It started up immediately following Obama's election loss. Obama blamed the loss on the American people, bemoaning the fact that they were not accustomed to this much government intrusion. So how better to make one accustomed?
How many airplane bombing attempts have the TSA thwarted up until this point? Answer: zero. Yet it was passengers that stopped the shoe bomber, and passengers again that stopped the underwear bomber. Yet for the last two weeks, it is the passenger that is being treated like a criminal. No, this isn't about safety at all. It's about government-sponsored thuggery and intimidation.
The TSA does what it does to keep us SAFE.
um... I was pointing out that Americans will accept any amount of inconvenience and tyranny to be kept safe.
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