I've had enough

I really don’t care if they stare at my naked body on the fancy x-ray machine, and at my age it probably isn’t going to shorten my life much to have a few more x-rays. I don’t know if I feel the same way about my wife, my daughter or my granddaughter though. I’m quite certain that NONE of us is going to be groped by these characters.
I hold a pilot’s license and a concealed weapon permit. I’m retired from the US Navy and my top secret clearance is quite recently expired. My wife was in the Pentagon when it was attacked on September 11, 2001. Yet, if I buy a ticket on a commercial airline the government has decided that being delayed and inconvenienced isn’t enough. No, I have to be x-rayed and groped as well.
How many terrorists have they caught with all these new security measures? I suspect you already know. How many billions of dollars of our money have they wasted on this foolishness? I’ll bet you don’t know that. Neither do I.
While I was on active duty we did lots of studies on terrorism and determined that there is no possible way to prevent an attack by a single terrorist or small group of terrorists who are willing to die. We can take reasonable precautions to protect ourselves and our property, but the key word is “reasonable”. The TSA thing has long since gone beyond reasonable. If there were some way to make it completely impossible for a terrorist to get access to a commercial airliner (and there is NOT) it would be quite simple for the terrorist to attack a cargo plane, a charter plane, a private plane or --- a MILITARY plane! None of those require even a metal detector, much less a body scanner and “pat down” to gain access. And that’s only planes. When it comes to weapons delivery, I would think that a truck, bus or train would be a much better system.
Meanwhile, who are we fighting? Surely not the terrorists, they’ve already won. They won when we gave up our freedoms in the interest of safety. How safe do you want to be? What’s the value of living a few more years if we have to live them in fear? I don’t know about you, but I’ve had enough of this security nonsense. We’ve just shown in mass at the polls that we are fed up with this more and more government. Is no one listening?
I have two suggestions. First, let your congressman and senator know how you feel. Second, use greyhound or Amtrak or your own personal vehicle. Look into charter flights if you must fly. The time savings from not dealing with security may offset the additional costs.

That’s the way I see it.