It is the order of His Majesty O’Neal I that:
- The Transportation Safety Administration be dismantled, and disbanded following the end of the fiscal year.
- The Department of Homeland Security shall cooperate with the Department of Transportation to produce common and reasonable security procedures for the nation’s airports.
- The enforcement of these procedures, either by police force or by private agency, shall be the responsibility of the municipal government in which the airport is located.
Imperial Opinion:
Approximately eighty million commercial flights have taken place in the past nine years. Of those, less than five were the targets of terrorist attacks, all of which penetrated TSA security only to be thwarted by the vigilance of passengers and aircrews. Given that, I fail to see any tangible benefit that the Transportation Safety Administration has provided, and I fail to see any justification, or even mitigation of the inconvenience, expense, and indignity that it has caused. Furthermore, such an agency undermines the values of freedom on which this country was founded, for which its patriots died, and by which its citizens live. To pursue and cherish freedom, one must accept danger. In the past, this danger has taken the form of vast, hostile empires whose standing armies controlled whole quarters of the world, or alliances whose nuclear arsenals could obliterate the world entirely. These and other perils were not only accepted, but surmounted. It cannot, then, be the policy of either the government or the people to devote such paranoid obsession to as meek and meager a threat as terrorism.
