TSA Director Pistole says TSA conducts “very few” pat downs, only 3% of passengers. Very few? Based on their estimates, they conduct over 50,000 pat downs per day, the equivalent of the entire population of Ames, Iowa.

There have been 21 screeners arrested in five months for job related crimes, including drug trafficking, theft, raping a 14 year old and two weeks ago for distributing child porn. Now they get to grope small children and babies and it is legal.

Twenty one criminal acts, eighteen security failures, 4,000+ groping complaints and dozens of lawsuits, all in five months, but TSA hasn’t stopped one incident in nine years. Fortunately, some people and lawmakers are beginning to realize that they are being misled by TSA’s paranoia.

TSA consistently fails to detect weapons passing through security while insisting that they need to grope 50,000 passenger each day to ensure airline safety. It is unimaginable that anyone would find it reasonable to have a stranger fondle their genitals in public as a condition of flying. There are laws in every jurisdiction that prohibits this type behavior since it violates basic social norms and human rights. Of course, there are also laws protecting citizens from the sort of voyeurism the scanners make possible, yet these both of these standards are conveniently ignored “out of an abundance of caution”.

Those who believe that the behavior of this bloated and self-serving agency is making flying safe are clearly ignoring an overwhelming amount of evidence to the contrary. How many failures, crimes and abuses must this agency commit before Congress demands their reform?

TSA is violating the Constitution on a daily basis, not improving security whatsoever and yet uninformed sheep and cowards among us endorse this abuse. TSA is a larger threat to American safety and liberty than Al Qaeda. Perhaps those who support these criminals feel safer, the rest of us don’t.