The Transportation Security Administration: If Obama Was Really For "Change" This Agency Would Have Been The First To Go

One of the many abominations borne of United States "Government's" desire to "protect" US - we the people- in the so-called "Post 9/11 Era" is the Transportation Security Agency.  This agency, created in 2001 as part of the Aviation and Transportation Security Act, signed into law by that beloved and freedom-loving president, George W. (Dubya) Bush, has grown from a fledgling upstart into strong and out of control organization in just a decade.  It accomplished what the terrorists of September the 11th could not: It halted the free and unrestricted access we all had to major airports and other transportation centers, by placing unreasonable security demands and procedures on travelers, by restricting loved-ones from free access to their relatives, and creating a sense of apprehension, even dread, every time a free citizen of this great nation attempts to fly or use other means of national and international transportation.  If we need an example of this unreasonable "security" we need only think about the two disgusting procedures we must now all endure; those are the body "pat down" and groping, or the X-ray device that reveals a person's private parts to the full view of the transportation security officer.

President Obama ran on the pretext, I mean, the political platform that he was the President For Change.  Now, nearly four years into his administration, he has done nothing to check the "authority" of the Transportation Security Agency nor to reign in this agency's clearly unreasonable and UNCONSTITUTIONAL search and seizure procedures at our nation's airports and other transportation centers.  Mr. Obama has not issued a single "Executive Order" to restrain this mad-dog agency, or threatened to fire the Director if these highly controversial and obviously unconstitutional "administrative" procedures were not halted immediately.  George W. Bush, A REPUBLICAN, had no problems with the criminal powers granted the TSA.  You would think that President Obama, being the opposite of Bush in all political beliefs, would have immediately moved to disband the agency or at least curtail its powers.  Instead, President Obama now tells us he envisions a CIVILIAN security force that would be JUST AS STRONG, JUST AS POWERFUL, AS THE US MILITARY (His words, My emphasis).  And this strong civilian security force would be specifically to protect you and me from...you and me!  If the TSA currently has all these strong powers but no checks on its authority, I can only imagine what powers this MILITARY "STRONG" CIVILIAN FORCE bring into play against you and me.

It appears that the "President of Change" is not going to change much at all.  If he does change his mind, follow the Constitution, and act in the best interest of the people, how could he do other than throw away this terrible blight on Freedom that is the Transportation Security Agency?