Airport Security:
Almost 150 years. ago, President Lincoln found it necessary to
hire a
private investigator - Alan Pinkerton - for protection. That was
the
beginning of the Secret Service.
Since that time
federal police authority has grown to a large number of
multi-letter
agencies - FBI, CIA, INS, IRS, DEA, BATF, etc. Now comes
the "Federal
Air Transportation Airport Security Service."
Can't you see
them now, these highly trained men and women in their
black outfits with
their initials in large white letters across their backs:
"FATASS."
I feel safer already.