Is TSA's 'mission creep' Making the US a Police State?

The TSA's mission creep is making the US a police state - The out-of-control Transportation Security  Administration is past patdowns at airports – now it's checkpoints and roadblocks 

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But now TSA is invading travel by other means, too. No surprise, really: as soon as she established groping in airports, Napolitano expressed her desire to expand TSA jurisdiction over all forms of mass transit. In the past year, TSA's snakelike VIPR (Visual Intermodal Prevention and Response) teams have been slithering into more and more bus and train stations – and even running checkpoints on highways – never in response to actual threats, but apparently more in an attempt to live up to the inspirational motto displayed at the TSA's air marshal training center since the agency's inception: "Dominate. Intimidate. Control."

How interesting. If you take the first letters of the three words in the motto, you come up with the acronym ‘DIC’ (dick). Just sayin...