Comment Don't fly commercial airlines (Score 1) 595
It's not for everyone, but I drive my car cross-country instead of flying. The humiliation, absurdity and inconvenience of TSA keeps me off commercial airlines unless business requires me to travel by air.
I'm a single parent, and the logistics of toting kids and carry-ons through security and around the airport make it nearly impossible to travel with my children by commercial airlines. Years ago, I could have a friend escort me to the gate, help carry the bags and manage the kids. That's simply not possible anymore. Even if I could manage the bags and the kids, I can't bring their medicine, or juice cups to sip on the plane since apple-juice and medicine are components of terrorist plots to blow up airplanes.
I travelled last with my daughter in 2006. She was 4 years old and was searched by TSA. She was separated from me and terrified. Why should a parent subject a little girl to that sort of treatment? I prefer to drive, show her the country and let her watch movies in the car on the trip instead of being *terrorized* by minimum wage thugs at the airport.
What really irks me is that I'm a private pilot. In VFR conditions, I can hop right into a plane, pack it full of all sorts of nasty things and fly wherever I like without any security. I fly club planes and would only have to drive my car to the hangar at the airport across the street, but there's no security and the club is in uncontrolled airspace. If I had a plane on my property and an air strip I would only have to walk to my back yard and hop in.
TSA is window dressing and does nothing to promote national security. It's destroying air travel in the United States. It is a useless drag on the economy, a violation of liberty and an enormous waste of money. It needs to be eliminated immediately.
I'm a single parent, and the logistics of toting kids and carry-ons through security and around the airport make it nearly impossible to travel with my children by commercial airlines. Years ago, I could have a friend escort me to the gate, help carry the bags and manage the kids. That's simply not possible anymore. Even if I could manage the bags and the kids, I can't bring their medicine, or juice cups to sip on the plane since apple-juice and medicine are components of terrorist plots to blow up airplanes.
I travelled last with my daughter in 2006. She was 4 years old and was searched by TSA. She was separated from me and terrified. Why should a parent subject a little girl to that sort of treatment? I prefer to drive, show her the country and let her watch movies in the car on the trip instead of being *terrorized* by minimum wage thugs at the airport.
What really irks me is that I'm a private pilot. In VFR conditions, I can hop right into a plane, pack it full of all sorts of nasty things and fly wherever I like without any security. I fly club planes and would only have to drive my car to the hangar at the airport across the street, but there's no security and the club is in uncontrolled airspace. If I had a plane on my property and an air strip I would only have to walk to my back yard and hop in.
TSA is window dressing and does nothing to promote national security. It's destroying air travel in the United States. It is a useless drag on the economy, a violation of liberty and an enormous waste of money. It needs to be eliminated immediately.
