TSA is useless, except for keeping people scared.

[Xithras]

41. Yes, and they did it without feeling up little old ladies, or putting 6 year olds on No-Fly lists.

Anyone who claims that airport security hasn't changed since the TSA took over obviously didn't fly much before 9/11. They have layered on all sorts of security theater that has done nothing to make you safer.

As to the second paragraph...you're mixing issues. I actually don't have a problem with the notion of having a security agency running the gates, but object to the way the TSA has done it. How many lives have they saved by making us throw out our water bottles? How many aircraft have they kept in the air by blasting us with radiation scanners? The TSA itself needs to be abolished because it's an agency founded on the principles of abuse and power, and an agency with that kind of foundation can't be easily reformed.

Create a new agency with security policies more akin to the pre-TSA procedures that we used back in the 90's (i.e. no groping little old ladies,) fire all of the existing employees, and only allow them to be rehired by the new agency after they have gone through thorough a thorough reeducation process. Works for me.