The TSA screeners are mostly dolts.
About 4 years ago I wheel my 94 yo granfather to the Orlando airport security checkoint and one idiot asks if he can stand and shuffle through the metal detector. So he does, and no alarms go off, but the moron screener thinks he can make the old guy stand with his feet together, no shoes with his arms extended out. ALSO makes him take his belt off.
So here is the 94 yo retired steel worker, wobbling around, his pants falling off while the braindead moronic screener is wanding him over. I bet the video screeners behind closed doors were just roaring in laughter. I was furious and I know if I breathed one word of protest id have been slammed to the floor and carted off to jail. It was the last time I saw my old grandpap.
Basically, radical islam has dictated how we conduct ourselves in America—with full approval of our handlers/politicians.
A typical reason for de-nutting our worthless central socialist government! Then we can work on our worthless state governments!
I think a primary goal of TSA is force americans to function in an environment where they pretty much have no rights, and no real recourse nor access to the rules they are being searched by.
This is presumably a prelude to having this level of federal direct control/intervention in many more aspects of our lives.
From a longer-term view, when a country reaches this point, I think it is time to consider finding a new country, because history is very, very unkind on what has to happen BEFORE this stuff gets removed. Late-stage republic, well into the demogogue phase, what comes next? More and more a police state, with government more concerned with control over its own people that worrying about external enemies.