what is the deal with the TSA?!?

[mooby]

I feel like we are walking an extremely fine line between invasion of privacy and national security.

I mean for the people who advocate more personal privacy at the airports, etc., what happens when that loss of security directly contributes to a terrorist attack in the US?

And I know at the same time if I was going through an airport checkpoint with absolutely nothing of note on me, I wouldn't like it if they pulled me aside, and made me completely undress in the name of a random search. But I will put up with that if that's what it takes to stop terrorists.

It's a very tough line the gov't has to walk, to make sure that the citizens safety is the highest priority, but at the same time we have to protect our privacy rights. It just seems no matter what happens, nobody will be happy.

I'm sorry that your luggage got ripped open and you can't do anything about it, but that's just the way it is nowadays.

And it's not just about terrorist attacks too. When guys and girls are smuggling drugs into the country through their stomachs and rectums, you have to find a way to stop them when they go through the airport. And that is why you see naked body scanners at the airports today.

So would you rather they go away at the expense of allowing more illegal drugs into the country, or would you rather they stay and invade your privacy? As the cartels in Mexico keep making billions of dollars off all the illegal drugs they sell in the US, the US has to start increasing methods and ways to stop them from getting into the country. It's not just guys carrying 60 pound marijuana bundles over the US-Mexico border, it's young people ingesting up to the 30 of these tiny ingestible bundles that contain X, coke, w/e, and then crapping them out once they are in safe place for the cartels to sell. If anybody has ever watched that show Border Wars (which I love) you'll get an idea of how hard it is to stop them from getting into the country.