TSA is useless, except for keeping people scared.

[Xithras]

22. See, that's the point we disagree on.

performing the necessary function of screening for weapons and explosives at airports.

The TSA performs no valid functions whatsoever. It's been demonstrated time after time that they are an ineffective organization that routinely fails to detect even the most obvious of threats. Airport based terrorism was already at its lowest level in 40 years before the TSA was formed, and was threats were continuing to decline right up to the date of the TSA's formation, so you can't even argue that their creation was warranted by modern terrorist threats. 9/11 was a fluke event largely created by our own governments incompetence, and the formation of the TSA was a gross overreaction by our government in order to create the illusion that they were "doing something".

I'm not anti government by any means, but that doesn't mean that we should allow an ineffective government agency to abuse us (and if a government employee sexually assaults me by grabbing my genitalia, that's abuse). The TSA needs to be abolished, along with the NSA and a handful of other government agencies that provide little value to the people.