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I've mentioned this many times, but for the sake of this article, I'll throw in my $0.02 again.
TSA is yet another example of bloated bureaucracy which hands its enforcers- I'm sorry, "agents"- too much power in the course of their jobs. EVERY SINGLE time I fly I feel like I have to go through some Orwellian/Nazi humiliation to give me the illusion of safety. It's why I absolutely loathe flying in the US. It's not the traveling itself, it's not getting to the plane, it's not the crowded planes, or the overpriced food at the airport- it's the TSA.
Why? Nearly every single agent I've had the displeasure of encountering has a chip on their shoulder the size of Nebraska. Not only that, they treat everyone, and I mean everyone, as if they're Osama himself. They also have the whiff of people who were picked on in elementary school who, at long last, are given outsized authority and are relishing every second.
I want statistics as to how much their actions have ACTUALLY made us safer. How many potential terrorists have they really caught at screening? The fucking shoe bomber got on the plane before anyone even noticed something was up!
The TSA is just another example of how much liberty and freedom the sheeple of America are willing to throw into the garbage for the illusion- the fiction- of security.
The full body scanners are the most outrageous example of this. When will our leaders, and the paranoid, pathetic citizens of this country, finally stand up and put the brakes on this out of control monster?
