The Issue: The Transportation Security Administration decision to allow small knives on planes.
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The TSA — Totally Stupid Agency — is allowing small knives on planes (“Shanks on a Plane!” March 6).
These power-abusing idiots are starting to scare me more than the terrorists.
If the goal of terrorists is to terrorize, they’re winning, and the TSA is aiding and abetting them.
How does that bumbling Janet Napolitano still have her job as secretary of Homeland Security?
Michael Sanchez
Manhattan
Once again, one of our governmental agencies has, for whatever reason, found it necessary to make a decision that defies any degree of logic, common sense or intelligence.
What makes the TSA think that a person’s throat cannot easily be slit using a small knife?
If the knife is sharp and accurately placed, it will most certainly do the job. Will the personnel on board be trained to stop the bleeding?
The insanity associated with this decision is incomprehensible.
Ed Quinlan
New Hyde Park
The TSA’s irresponsible decision to start allowing knives and other potential blunt-force weapons aboard planes is even harder to believe than the plot of the movie “Snakes on a Plane.”
Their lame reason that “it aligns TSA with international standards” sounds like a child’s whining complaint to a responsible parent: “But everybody else is doing it.”
I’d like to say to the TSA what my mother used to wisely tell me when I was growing up and wanted to do something foolish or dangerous: “And if your friend jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge, would you?”
Richard Siegelman
Plainview
Really? A knife on a plane?
Just remember: no water. It’s dangerous. You might spill it on somebody’s suit.
Ilene Alves
Manhattan