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Welcome To America! Welcome to Republican led, strain at a gnat and swallow a camel America! What do I mean? Well, the commercial cargo that accompanies all your luggage and passengers receives hardly any checking. And the cargo that comes into the ports via ships gets very little checking. This is all part of the plan to LOOK good, while filling positions with mindless people who trip over rules as absurd as shampoo, lotions, and butter knives issued on the airplanes themselves.
Don't you get it? The one stowed in your suitcase is far more dangerous than the one we can hand you on the flight. Anybody knows that. Besides, TSA just follows the rules(except in Phoenix), they don't make them.
Mr. Smith, I believe and know your frustration. But what's broken with TSA as well as the government isn't the agencies, or the rules. It's the people. And it's not the people just from DC. It's the amazingly stunted character of people from all 50 states that arrive in Washington that lose their moral character(indicating a lack of depth) or make inane rules(indicating a lack of reason and logic) and pretend there are no consequences.
The fix isn't going to be Barack Obama, or any other politician. The fix will only come when we as a people decide that our in-forming system is antiquated and not working. In-forming includes both the educational rigors of school and the in-forming of character. As we have seen in the current administratioon, even those law students(Monica Goodling) from uber-Christian universities(Pat Robertson's Regency University) are lacking the moral depth that would prevent them from breaking the law. It is obviously time to reconsider our entire in-formation system and change it.
In the mean time, have a nice flight.
