Homeland Security Chief in Conflict Providing Equipment to TSA

The discussion over the TSA “Love Pats”, as coined by CBS, is being framed in the incorrect light. We should not be talking about the TSA security measures but we should be asking why the TSA and not the airlines are handling security.
Consider this; if the airlines controlled the security and I do not feel that an airlines security is what it should be, I am not going to fly them. Security would quickly become a selling point of an airline. From this security competition would spring innovation and better security than the Federal Government could ever hope to offer. Might the price of tickets increase? Yes, however my taxes should be reduced because I can eliminate the TSA.
As it stands now, we have the former head of Homeland Security profiting from the sale of scanning machines. We have seven dollar an hour thugs groping our women and children in the name of safety and the Federal Government intimidating and bullying its citizens.
I challenge you to give me one example of where the TSA security procedures have actually prevented a person from getting on a plane with a serious weapon or bomb. Your grandmother and her knitting needles do not count.
The TSA measures are typical government think, reactive. Why do we allow such tyranny? Have we become sheeple? What next, roadblocks? In the mid 1700’s we called it Illegal search and seizure when stopped on horse back crossing the land.
As long as government interferes in our lives we lose freedoms that have been paid for in blood. Allowing this incremental expansion of government to continue is wrong. It is time to stand up and tell those that would take our freedoms from us, enough is enough!
Stand up, be heard and be counted!

Eric D. Miller
Florida