Dream on. They'll be happily sticking their probes up our arses in perpetuity. Now that they're federalized, they will remain on the payroll long past when they have assumed room temperature.
We traveled last week. Right after getting thru the security gauntlet, as we were re-assembling ourselves, one of the TSA goons yells "BRAVO" into his mic, and TSA goons ran everywhere, and they wouldn't let anyone move in any direction. And I heard them give a description of the person they were looking for. I thought, "uh-oh, they're going to end up emptying out the airport for 3 or 4 hours". We were lucky -- guess they found their missing person, as they soon let us peasants go about our business again.
So if you hear TSA goons say "BRAVO" ... Look out!
Let me guess. An 80 year-old white-haired grandmother of 16 in a wheelchair who didn't want to go through the new detailed view body scan machine?
You should see this.
Hell of a way to run a railroad.
Or an airport terminal, either.
I suppose we are fortunate, as yet, not to be required to show an internal passport, with a visa to make a temporary visit to the destination in another part of United States. There is a continuing reason to keep our personal transportation, i.e., automobiles, which still permit embarking upon a journey without too much bureaucracy involved, and certainly without an intrusive inspection that serves no useful purpose other than to make travels continually difficult for people who have no intention of making trouble, but absolutely miss the real perpetrators.
I probably will not take an airplane anywhere again in my lifetime.
I parked my car on the US side of the border and took a taxi to the airport.
Checked through security and on to the counter within 3 to 5 minutes with no problems.
Saved over $243 dollars by going across and flying Mexicana.
BTW, the security folks were very courteous not like the TSA dummies who have let power go to their heads.
Some of the insane and inane tricks these folks are doing is right out of the book of Keystone Kops.
Do I feel any safer because these guys abuse the inspection process,shut down the airport for any reason and are rude to the passengers, not really.