The American people are resourceful, well armed and have a strong distrust of government, any attempted police state would last about five minutes and result in impeachment.
Say that, verbatim, to the face of a TSA agent during a patdown after removing your shoes, throwing away a half-empty bottle of water and making damn sure a nail clipper rides in your baggage. But be sure to keep your voice down and avoid an eye contact, lest you want to end up on a no-fly list.
I would say that they have done a pretty good job.
It is amazing that you can't see already how very little freedom you have compared with other nations
I must have missed the option where I don't have to get groped in order to fly to the west coast.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2012/apr/...