So another bomb plot is stopped. And guess how it was stopped.

[Stinky The Clown]

8. Actually, I do fly.

We need better airport security. We need different airport security. We don't Security Theater 3000 and we don't need need people willing to give up privacy and personal rights for the sake of our government providing the *illusion* of security.

Did you know that the high security society in Israel doesn't use any body scanners? Did you know they use smart people to screen airplane passengers? I am neither defending nor criticizing Israel. I am simply dying there are other, better way.

The point of this OP is that the bullshit part of TSA has been as effective as a fart in a windstorm and that human intelligence is what wins the game.

But you go ahead. Shout at me for wanting my right to privacy . . . . and yours, for that matter.

It is in part because of attitudes like yours, willing to accept intrusion, that we are seeing this country going from, as you say, bad to worse.