Is TSA a case of government overstepping its bounds?

Once again we have the libertarian rant of creeping government that speaks to only one-half of the equation — the “here’s what I don’t like” portion. Jon Caldara complains about the indignity and inconvenience of TSA security checks at airports, but is totally silent as to why those checks are done.

The aim is to prevent bad things happening on airplane flights like those of 9/11. What does Caldara propose instead? Allowing any or all passengers to carry weapons aboard so we can have shootouts at 40,000 feet? The problem is how to keep terrorists and other evildoers off of very vulnerable targets.

Propose better alternatives or improvements, Mr. Caldara, just don’t whine about the problem. Howard Herbst, Aurora

Jon Caldara wants to call out the “left” for all the loss of freedom in our country, but the TSA and intrusive checks and searches at the airports are part of the residual privacy encroachments due to 9/11 thanks to the George W. Bush administration.

Caldara needs to stop being a shill for partisanship and embrace the reality of democracy. Democracy is not a spectator sport where you can stand on the sidelines and chirp your cheap complaints and unsubstantiated or demonstratively false arguments. Democracy requires all of us to engage and come to collaborative decisions on how we govern ourselves and how we resolve differences.

The GOP and its talking heads have a bad habit of name-calling and blame-assigning without hard facts, and their favorite target is the Democrats, the real champions of progressive government. Greg Johnson, Englewood

“The slow, poisonous creep of government intrusion” is the best commentary you have printed in a very long time. Kudos to Jon Caldara. Wake up, America! Carol Harkias, Loveland