After 9/11, "private" airline security took the blame.  But it was actually government rules that let this happen,  including forbidding armed security on flights (are you free?). 

Next, people began screaming for armed pilots, but the Bush administration tried to say that this was a bad idea.  Instead, the president simply took over airline security, as though America was his own little banana republic.  He put some sort of evil "Gilligan" (TSA) in charge.

Bureaucrats continue to undermine your security.  Two years after 9/11, airport security is no better, and your chance of flying with armed security is less than 1 in 200!  Read about it:

Jun 2003   Jul 2003  and it continues... Feb 2004