Traveling by air throughout the US has created a system of airport security that assumes the citizens of this nation are by their very nature, terrorists.sYou are a terrorist… until proven otherwise. This seems to be the view of the TSA or Transportation Security Agency. The citizen’s of the United States are standing idly by while our RIGHTS are being stripped without question, all in the name of Homeland Security. I can proudly say that I’m all for Homeland Security, but it’s time that the pendulum swung back towards the center. Today, I was at the airport in New Mexico, (a hot bed of terrorism, NOT!), and the TSA screeners made an old woman in a wheelchair in her 80’s get out of the wheel chair and forced her to walk without the aid of her cane through the metal detectors. While I feel much better about the baggage screening process, I do believe that common sense has been checked at the door, as we continue to harass the flying public because of the errors of September 11th. The only thing that this is perpetuating is big government, big budgets, and into deeper debt as a nation. For some reason, there are people today that are willing to sacrifice liberty for security. I submit what Benjamin Franklin, one of our founding fathers had to say on the subject, “They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security” This is unfortunately what we have done.