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Ask the pilot

Propped up by a culture of fear, TSA has become a bureaucracy with too much power and little accountability. Where will the lunacy stop?
By Patrick Smith

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  • Friday, July 11, 2008 02:53 PM

    Propped up by a culture of fear, TSA has become a bureaucracy with too much power and little accountability. Where will the lunacy stop?

    Is it my imagination or did "American Psycho" not feature the unorthodox use of a butterknife? Perhaps the TSA is merely very well read in Modern American Fiction!!

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