Abolish the Department of Homeland Security

DHS is too inconsistent to be credible. The only flight I've ever missed (I was running late to a wedding), I missed because I had a tube of toothpaste in my carry-on. It was found to be small enough to be acceptable, but not until it had gone through a second round of X-ray.

On another occasion, I was equally late to a connection flight (this time, not my fault), and I got through security despite having a bottle of water, a toiletry kit (including 5" blades), etc.

Why? Well, I don't know and I don't really care. The fact of the matter is that they will give me an aluminum can on the flight anyway, so who cares how long of a blade I bring onboard in the first place? It's security theater no matter how you slice it.

Re: Abolish the Department of Homeland Security

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Re: Abolish the Department of Homeland Security

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Post by dguaraglia » Sat, Jan 14, 2012, 7:43 AM UTC

carbocation wrote: post #6

DHS is too inconsistent to be credible. The only flight I've ever missed (I was running late to a wedding), I missed because I had a tube of toothpaste in my carry-on. It was found to be small enough to be acceptable, but not until it had gone through a second round of X-ray. On another occasion, I was equally late to a connection flight (this time, not my fault), and I got through security despite having a bottle of…

Look up the term "security theater". That's exactly what they are doing.

Well, that and buying extremely expensive machinery from a company partially owned by the very man, Michael Chertoff, who co-wrote the PATRIOT act and jump-started this whole stupid thing. Talk about revolving-door politics and corruption. That bothers me more than any pat-downs.

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Post by littleidea » Sat, Jan 14, 2012, 7:52 AM UTC

the link isn't just down, the domain is not resolving for me now

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Post by smokeyj » Sat, Jan 14, 2012, 8:09 AM UTC

carbocation wrote: post #6

DHS is too inconsistent to be credible. The only flight I've ever missed (I was running late to a wedding), I missed because I had a tube of toothpaste in my carry-on. It was found to be small enough to be acceptable, but not until it had gone through a second round of X-ray. On another occasion, I was equally late to a connection flight (this time, not my fault), and I got through security despite having a bottle of…

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