Once again, the TSA (as well as DHS) has implemented a major change to passenger searches with no indication of benefit. The palms-down searches (versus the current back of the hand searches) almost seem as a punishment for those who do not wish to be humiliated by a full body scan (now instead they get the privilege of being groped). Yes, I know the proper term is "searched" or perhaps "frisked" but imagine the typical TSA employee. Day in, day out patting down hundreds of passengers a day. They are going to get tired or bored and something is going to happen. Worse, some idiot screener will try to cop a feel of an attractive passenger. Passengers have already given up so much privacy in the name of a safer air travel. In reality, how many terrorist attempts involving domestic flights have there been since 9/11? Increasingly intrusive means of searches are being introduced in light of a glaring lack of increased threats. DHS and TSA may inadvertently help solve the energy crisis as passengers look for alternative means of airline travel. Unfortunately this may also spell the end for many US carries.
“If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.”--Benjamin Franklin
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