Reply #56: How about to COMMERCE in general?

[Atman]

BushCo says they're all about business. And here you've got two kids who've essentially never flown before, never done a wrong thing in their lives, and they show up at the airport for their very first vacation together, and the fucking government has them pre-labeled as potential terrorists? My kid is a homebody, as I mentioned. This trip actually involved tears and angst...and they get stopped at the gate!

Don't you TSA apologists see the damage this is doing? Not just to America's reputation, but to actual COMMERCE! How eager do you think these kids are going to be to travel again? My son's girlfriend was scared to death to get on a plane in the first place. I had to spend a good deal of time explaining to her all the sounds she might hear on the plane (the luggage doors, the wing flaps) she was so worried about flying. And these kids have trouble even getting ont he goddam plane?

Stop apologizing for this atrocity of a government program, and wake up to the fact that big brother is here, and he's determined to make sure our kids never know what life was like in a free society.