FIRE ‘EM ALL AND PRIVATIZE: A TSA screener was arrested at JFK Airport for hurling a cup of hot coffee at an American Airlines pilot who told her and some colleagues to tone down a profanity- laced conversation in a terminal, sources said yesterday.

They’re a joke of an agency with way too many joke employees. Abolish the TSA and put security back in the airlines’ hands.

UPDATE: Reader John Steele writes:

The week does not go by without some report ranging from child pornography to theft and now assault. How can anyone reasonably argue that their procedures can screen out terrorists among passengers when they can’t even screen criminals in their midst. The entire thing is a gross violation of civil rights and a joke; unfortunately the joke is on us an it isn’t very funny.

Sadly, even if we did away with it Napolitano, Pistole and company would still be setting the standards and procedures so instead of being groped by some surly TSA agent we’ll be groped by some private security guard — still groped but probably politely.

But like any government activity the probability of this poorly acted theater going away is minimal. Once a government gets the opportunity to control people they don’t relinquish it lightly. And TSA has the ultimate control opportunity; first air and now rail and roads and I expect soon, sea.

Bankruptcy will solve that problem. Related: Another TSA Security Breach at Newark Airport:

Security officials at Newark Liberty International Airport are reviewing an incident in which a traveler breached a checkpoint and caused the evacuation of one of the airport’s terminals, the Port Authority said.

A 64-year-old British man walked past a distracted Transportation Security Administration agent at Terminal B Thursday.

The terminal was evacuated for an hour, and passengers had to be rescreened.

A joke.