[DariusBane]

I think the pilot did everyone a favor. Fact is the TSA system is a highly flawed security apparatus, and they know it. Get rid of it. Issue everyone who boards a plane an 18” bowie knife. Tell the world we will nuke Mecca and Medina during Ramadan is anything happens to our aircraft. Billions of dollars would be saved and government power reduced. You sir are far to enamored with the trappings of power. Power should be de centr”ized not concentrated. That is a fundemental principal of conservatism. You are very very far off that mark.

[Notary Sojac]

A lot of money has been willfully wasted by the TSA in the name of security, but the reality is we are more secure than we were on 10 Sept 2001 in only one way.

That one way is that passengers on a hijacked plane know that their survival is in their own hands....the "authorities" have no power to save them.

The only truly effective means of combating terror is to not let it guide your actions. If someone wants you dead, you will die. That's a grim truth. But allowing that grim truth to guide your actions is to surrender to terror and allow it to win.

Make no mistake, the TSA has only served to legitimize terrorism and victimize American citizens who are now being treated like common criminals merely because they want to travel.

If the TSA were disbanded tomorrow, do you honestly believe planes would start blowing up all across America? Of course they wouldn't. But we'd save a lot of money, and travelers would have their dignity back.