SERIOUSLY??

The TSA checkpoint in Sioux Falls has a slideshow of 9-11 images playing.  Really, TSA, really?  Blatant fear-mongering?  Abusing an American tragedy to get us to willingly give up our rights?  Invasive searches don't make us safer.  A more intelligent, adaptive security system would make us safer.  Profiling would make us safer.  Better trained TSA agents (think more like detectives and less like cops) would make us safer.

Seriously, seeing that made me sick to my stomach.  I know this it's a clique, but the terrorists have won.  We as Americans can't travel across the country without being groped by a stranger or having a stranger look under our clothes?  With no justification other than random selection?  How about suspicious-looking people get extra screening?  TSA gave a THREE YEAR OLD CHILD a pat-down in Tennessee.  Disgusting.  If you're selected for the extra screening and refuse (choosing to leave the airport instead), you're subject to a $10,000 fine.  How is this not violating our fourth amendment rights?  How about our eighth amendment rights?  How about investigating people who choose to not fly instead of being searched, instead of imposing a ridiculously high fine?

Why do we have to give up our dignity to fly?  It makes me sick.