I'm reminded of something actor Jason Alexander said on the Tonight Show some months back.

His brother is a pilot and wears glasses. He happened to be carrying an eyeglass repair kit with him as he was boarding the plane that he was to be flying (commuter plane as I recall) from a smallish airport.

The Mental Midgets wearing the TSA shirts wanted to confiscate his miniature screwdriver in the eyeglass repair kit as it was a "sharp, small, concealable" object. When he asked why, they said "because you could use it to force the plane down".

This man, dressed in a pilot's uniform with all his vredentials with him had to explain to them: "If I want to take down the plane, I'm the pilot, I don't NEED the screwdriver for that!"

This is what you get when civil servants are in positions of authority. Remember when they were setting up the TSA and civil service unions complained because they were going to institute a requirement that screeners have at least a high-school education? This is the result of our government backing down.