Bread and circus ... nothing to see here .. move along.

That old line about those willing to give up liberty for security get neither was proven in the GWB rush to expand government power and size in the wake of 9/11. Homeland Security was created as an overlapping force to all the other departments assigned to US security and employs 230,000.

With al Qaeda marginalized, neither the staffing nor intrusions are dropping.

As Jordi says, the TSA antics are for show.