Yesterday I took a domestic flight in a country outside the US. What a surprise. Kept my belt on, kept my shoes on, no objection to a can of coke in my bag, ju

Yesterday I took a domestic flight in a country outside the US. What a surprise. Kept my belt on, kept my shoes on, no objection to a can of coke in my bag, just placed my bag on the scanner, waled through a simple metal detector, picked up my bag and kept walking. Despite this casualness, we landed safely both times. The TSA has added one measure at a time, and the result is now impressively intrusive. And (given the smaller numbers of staff I saw) impressively expensive. I wonder sometimes if America has forgotten what "normal" is, and if it can ever get back there. It's sad - so much fear keeps the people in bondage. I'm amazed at folk in the US that still believe the TSA makes flying safer. I guess until that changes, they'll stay. And since people equate inconvenience to safety, their goal really is to make things more and more intrusive, and inconvenient.