Shocker

The TSA in Dallas missed a gun in a little old lady's handbag.  When I read the headline, I thought that their super-duper scanners had malfunctioned in some way and failed to detect the gun.  But no, the gun showed up on their screen, the scanner just took his (or her) sweet time in detaining the woman.  Ninety (90!) minutes, in fact.  And she was actually already on her plane and away from the gate.  

What purpose does the TSA serve?  I have said it before and will say it again, if we are relying on the fools at the TSA as our last line of defense against a 9/11-style attack, then we're toast.  The people who work for the TSA will do anything for a paycheck.  They strip search and molest their fellow citizens on the orders of some government bureaucrat, just so they can collect their paycheck.  They humiliate us and strip us of our 4th Amendment rights and it seems as though they kind of like it.  

If they had any honor, they would refuse.  And if we still had any honor or remembrance of the freedom and liberty we used to have, then we would refuse.  But we're sheep, so we stand in line, we put our makeup and our toiletries into government-approved bottles, we remove our tweezers and nail clippers and nail files from our suitcases, we take off our shoes and humbly shuffle along to either possible exposure to radiation or a violation of one of our most basic rights.  What a $%&*ing country!