Are you saying that just because there is one bad apple in the bushel that all the apples should not be throw in the garbage????
I suspect there are some folks who are just not going to buy into that idea. Especially if they would just like to condemn all apples.
Okay, it's my last day in Cozumel and I don't have the time to prepare a post on this topic the way I'd really like to...but I feel compelled to point out a few truths that may give some food for thought to the "anything-for-security" types:
1. The TSA hasn't caught ONE SINGLE TERRORIST, or stopped ONE SINGLE TERRORIST ACT. Not one. Believe me, we'd know if they had - they crow loudly every time they find a penknife in a dude's shoe, even though he had no intention of using it to bring down a plane. If they found a weapon on a guy with actual ties to terrorist organizations, they'd shout it from the rooftops.
2. The only two attempted acts of terrorism on our air transportation system since 9/11 weren't even stopped by TSA - they were stopped by PASSENGERS. There are two reasons why nobody can hijack an airplane with a sharp object any more: reinforced cockpit doors, and aware passengers. It simply can't happen the way it happened on 9/11 again - no matter how many sharp implements slip past TSA agents.
3. The TSA spends 6 BILLION dollars a year...thats 'BILLION' with a B, folks. And how many terrorists have they caught or stopped? Not one. In fact they fail their own tests more often then they pass, allowing guns, knives and fake explosives past their checkpoints on a regular basis.
4. They are not making us safer. It's all just a theatrical show to make us THINK we're safer. If a terrorist really wanted to take down a plane, he could easily stuff enough explosives up his anus to do so. So what's next - cavity checks? Is that the point when you will say "enough already"??
5. Terrorist ARE NOT TARGETING OUR AIR TRANSPORTATION in the US. How do we know that? Think about it - if a terrorist wanted to make a statement (which is the reason they do this), all he'd have to do is walk up to a crowded TSA checkpoint and blow hisself to smithereens. He'd obliterate several hundred infidels and get his 72 virgins, and he wouldn't even have to have his junk touched.
6. Ask yourself this: if terrorists are so hellbent on blowing us up, why are they not targeting buses, subways, nightclubs? The answer is - because our REAL intelligence agencies are doing their job, discovering cells and terrorist activities quietly the way they are supposed to. The TSA is NOT intelligence. They are NOT law enforcement. You don't even need a highschool diploma to become a TSA agent. They advertise on pizza boxes for cripes sake! The TSA is the biggest make-work program in the US since the Great Depression. BILLIONS of dollars spent on Wallmart rejects groping grannies and pawing babies.
7. What the TSA is doing to many of us is sexual assault. I'm sorry, but in any other setting, if a stranger jammed her thumb up my vagina, rammed her hand on my labia and pressed on my pubis the way the TSA agent did in LA on my way here to Cozumel, I could have her arrested for sexual assault. Yet we allow them to do this to us...why? Most of these TSA agents have never held a job where they had power over anyone - and now we hire them off the street with little background checks (several have turned out to be pedophiles or sex offenders, and dozens have criminal records) and we let them touch us in places that nobody but our spouses should be allowed to.
I'm sorry but anybody who is okay with this simply hasn't thought it through.