We’d save a vast amount of money if we eliminated the TSA, and increase our flying risk by only an infinitesimal amount at best. As has been pointed out, this is all just “security theater.”
9/11 will never happen again, because it was not the box cutters that enabled them to act, it was the passengers’ and pilots’ assumption that they were being skyjacked safely. That will never happen again, and several cases where passengers tackled people thought dangerous (even if wrongly) have proved itThe most important thing we did was put on locked and armored doors to the cockpit. Needs no staff.The “liquid explosive” that led the TSA to eliminate shaving kits and take away any bottle of fluid (or gel) of more than three ounces DOES NOT EXIST. They used a tape of some idiots speculating wildly and pretended it was real.If you needed a weapon, there are plenty in the cabin, and they cannot all be eliminated, but it is irrelevant anyway. See my first point.The original X-Ray machines could not detect plastic explosives, but they examined everyone’s shoes anyway. They tested this at Logan Airport: no better than chance. The Bush Administration, however, delayed in implementing better machines for YEARS.Even with the new backscatter X-Ray machines, which they CLAIM are not harmful (yeah, right), Adam Savage of the Mythbusters went through one with TWO twelve-inch razor blades he uses for his art, and was not stopped. (He forgot he had them in his pockets.)While everyone — including PILOTS, for God’s sake — has been forced to take off their shoes and go through metal detectors and whatnot, big trucks from shipping companies have been allowed to go through nonguarded gates and put their packages directly on planes without examination until the last couple of years. It is nonsense, it is wasteful, it is not making us safer, and it IS making us more of a police state, where you can be hauled off just for making a comment to a TSA employee.
We’d save a vast amount of money if we eliminated the TSA, and increase our flying risk by only an infinitesimal amount at best. As has been pointed out, this is all just “security theater.”
9/11 will never happen again, because it was not the box cutters that enabled them to act, it was the passengers’ and pilots’ assumption that they were being skyjacked safely. That will never happen again, and several cases where passengers tackled people thought dangerous (even if wrongly) have proved itThe most important thing we did was put on locked and armored doors to the cockpit. Needs no staff.The “liquid explosive” that led the TSA to eliminate shaving kits and take away any bottle of fluid (or gel) of more than three ounces DOES NOT EXIST. They used a tape of some idiots speculating wildly and pretended it was real.If you needed a weapon, there are plenty in the cabin, and they cannot all be eliminated, but it is irrelevant anyway. See my first point.The original X-Ray machines could not detect plastic explosives, but they examined everyone’s shoes anyway. They tested this at Logan Airport: no better than chance. The Bush Administration, however, delayed in implementing better machines for YEARS.Even with the new backscatter X-Ray machines, which they CLAIM are not harmful (yeah, right), Adam Savage of the Mythbusters went through one with TWO twelve-inch razor blades he uses for his art, and was not stopped. (He forgot he had them in his pockets.)While everyone — including PILOTS, for God’s sake — has been forced to take off their shoes and go through metal detectors and whatnot, big trucks from shipping companies have been allowed to go through nonguarded gates and put their packages directly on planes without examination until the last couple of years. It is nonsense, it is wasteful, it is not making us safer, and it IS making us more of a police state, where you can be hauled off just for making a comment to a TSA employee.