tsa

Before you paint me as anti-government, I’m not. Governments serve a very useful service to the people and we’d be in a real mess without them.

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When it comes to government dictating the size of my soft drink? Whether there is a saltshaker on my restaurant table? That’s my line in the sand.

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The controversial full-body scanners that the Transportation Security Administration has been using in airports to detect illegal objects being hidden by passengers will be removed from all airports.

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I’m probably looking at 800 to a thousand people up and down the concourse at both Atlanta and Salt Lake airports. I doubt if there is a single one of them that paid the same price for their seat as the person who will be sitting next to them.

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We all gripe about having to take our shoes off when we go through airport security, but according to a list of items confiscated this year by the TSA, footwear may be the least of its concerns.

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Hundreds of travelers at New York’s JFK Airport who’d already gone through security screenings were forced to do the unthinkable — get in line and do it all over again. It happened Saturday when it was discovered that one of the TSA agents didn’t know his metal detector had been unplugged all morning.

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As Bozeman was the first to incorporate the full body scanners in Montana, we should be celebrating the new security right? The new TSA body scanners were put into place to improve efficiency and heighten airline security. What if you were told these devices are actually easier to bypass than a metal detector? Where is the fair trade off of privacy for security then? This short YouTube video demonstrates how to easily sneak metallic objects through the scanners.

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Well now you can fly out of Bozeman Airport without being groped by TSA officials. TSA has installed two of the full body scanners at the airport at a cost of $150,000 each. All you have to do is step into the glass booth, raise your hands over your head, wait for three seconds and step out and see what the results say

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We haven’t heard anything from the TSA about how many actual terrorist plots it prevented in 2011. In fact, we have no real report on how much safer it was to fly around the country in 2011 because of the efforts of our favorite, invasive security agency. What we do have, though, is a list of the ridiculous things they have taken from Americans who dare to forget what they’ve been carrying in their carry-ons.

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