Can We Just Throw in the Towel on Airport Security Theater Already?
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#2How many terrorists does any of the security theatre measures catch on a given day? One, ten, one hundred, one thousand?
$20 says it's zero.
How many bellicose self righteous idiots get through every day? Probably 10.
Which causes more problems?
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#3If it wasn't for this so-called "theatre", I'd have accidentally got on a plane with more than 50ml of toothpaste last week, and I'm sure I don't need to explain the damage that would have caused.
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#4I wish they would just staff adequately!
I'll take off my shoes, get scanned, listen to contradictory instructions, suffer "random" pat downs, whatever. Just have enough agents checking IDs and keeping scanning lines open so that the queue doesn't get to be 45mins long!
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#5We can stop dancing around the issue while pretending we don't understand why the TSA exists.
In the aftermath of 9/11, the government has to be seen doing "something". This was the something.
Then, in the following years, the TSA evolved into a welfare program for veterans, because here in the US we can't dream of just giving people money, we have to invent bullshit jobs that make society worse.
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#6How many terrorists does any of the security theatre measures catch on a given day? One, ten, one hundred, one thousand? $20 says it's zero. How many bellicose self righteous idiots get through every day? Probably 10. Which causes more problems?
I think not only zero, but zero cumulatively for the last 30 years. I can't think of a single example of a terrorist attack foiled at airport security.
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#7How many terrorists does any of the security theatre measures catch on a given day? One, ten, one hundred, one thousand? $20 says it's zero. How many bellicose self righteous idiots get through every day? Probably 10. Which causes more problems?
The question is how many have they ever caught. Restricting it to a single day is way too ambitious.
The answer is they are not telling you. They are not telling if it's zero either.
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#8It's a job program. End of story.
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#9I don't understand the hate for TSA. Sure, it can be better. But does anyone dare board a plane when none of the passengers have been screened?
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#10How many terrorists does any of the security theatre measures catch on a given day? One, ten, one hundred, one thousand? $20 says it's zero. How many bellicose self righteous idiots get through every day? Probably 10. Which causes more problems?
There's a detterence factor in play. Terrorists won't try to get through precisely because of the intense security.