[BC] TSA Lock???

[Dave Dunsmoor]

> On Monday 07 August 2006 03:43 pm, Thomas G. Osenkowsky wrote:
> > Perhaps the more important question is "How does this happen?"
> > Is it a TSA agent, airline employee, airport employee or other
> > unauthorized person(s) tampering with and pilfering from your
> > checked baggage. If items can be removed from, they can also
> > be deposited into your baggage.
>
>  Of course !
>
>  But the fact remains, it's now illegal to lock your luggage such that
>  it can't be tampered with.
>  If you do, the TSA *WILL* break into it, and it will no longer be locked,
>  with exception of a TSA approved tamperable lock.
>
>  The right of persons to be secure in their personal belongings has been
>  traded away for security !
>
>  Whether that's a good thing depends on your politics.
>  Mine are with Ben Franklin on this matter.
>  Clearly, he was right.
>
> -- 
> Cowboy

    My sentiments exactly. I drive. No TSA, no taking off the shoes, no
harassment at the airport for me. And, last time I flew out to Olympia,
Washington from North Dakota, it wasn't much quicker than if I had driven.

Dave Dunsmoor