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Friday, July 11, 2008 12:00 AM

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 07:15 AM

    Bitch Bitch Groan Groan

    Now that the TSA admits that upwards of 16,000 laptops are stolen or 'lost' (a.k.a. stolen by TSA staff) at TSA checkpoints, business travelers aren't traveling. Now that the TSA randomly confiscates laptops, cameras, SD memory cards, USB drives and the like, business (and some leisure) travelers aren't traveling. It couldn't happen to a nicer bunch. Let the airlines slowly twist in the wind on the sharp meathooks of their 'let the free market decide' business model. It would be a wonderful day if air travel in the US died a miserable slow death of a thousand cuts.

    —James T. Kirk Read James T. Kirk's other letters

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