There are quite a few sacrifices we have made in our freedoms over the last seven years since the World Trade Center towers were brought down in a despicable act of terror. In our grief and anger we as a country very quickly took several steps, both good and bad, to protect ourselves. One was to go to war in Afghanistan. That was a much-needed decision and we need to increase our presence there as well as NATO in order to rid it once and for all of the Taliban.
One of the choices we made that was in typically American government half-assed fashion was the creation of the TSA and the formation of the department of Homeland Security. Having experience plane travel both before and after the TSA I can certainly say that the only thing it is doing is irritating Americans on a daily basis. Do you honestly think that the TSA is stopping terrorists by making women take their nipple rings out with pliers? What a fucking joke and a fiasco.
The behavior of the TSA agents is what is at issue. When you have a security police force such as the TSA in charge of things and not subject to the same rules of behavior as the rest of the populace some of them are going to abuse that power. In typical government fashion we have created a huge boondoggle of a bureaucracy instead of turning to technology that while still invasive, would be a lot less personal and rude. If the TSA were successful we wouldn't have so many darned mexicans running around illegally in the country.
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