If they don’t have the brains to change course when they are obviously wrong. Yes, it’s time to become a relic of history, a monument to fear, stupidity and official indifference.

From the Associated Press –

In a climate of Internet campaigns to shun airport pat-downs and veteran pilots suing over their treatment by government screeners, some airports are considering another way to show dissatisfaction: Ditching TSA agents altogether.

Federal law allows airports to opt for screeners from the private sector instead. The push is being led by a powerful Florida congressman who’s a longtime critic of the Transportation Security Administration and counts among his campaign contributors some of the companies who might take the TSA’s place.

Furor over airline passenger checks has grown as more airports have installed scanners that produce digital images of the body’s contours, and the anger intensified when TSA added a more intrusive style of pat-down recently for those who opt out of the full-body scans. Some travelers are using the Internet to organize protests aimed at the busy travel days next week surrounding Thanksgiving.

Let’s stop routine doses of radiation.

Let’s stop the pointless groping of our genitals.

Let’s stop the pretensions of serving the public while instead encouraging a climate of fear to induce compliance.

The TSA is there to serve the public not to hold us in contempt, not to treat us like hardened criminals in a maximum security prison. (The only thing they are missing is body cavity searches.)

They have never caught a terrorist. Never.

James Pilant