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The most glaring idiotic point I never see raised about the TSA, other than being an abject failure, is that whatever idiot thought up the TSA didn't even attem
by X86BSD 10y ago
The most glaring idiotic point I never see raised about the TSA, other than being an abject failure, is that whatever idiot thought up the TSA didn't even attempt to think like a terrorist.
Look since it's inception to stop terrorists getting on board planes with water bottles and nail clippers, and box cutters... if I am a terrorist.. you just made my job 1000 times easier. I don't even need to get on a plane. You just corralled dozens of people into a single slow moving line.
Why wouldn't I just strap symtex to my self and ball bearings, go through the security line and as soon as I am the next person to go through the scanners blow myself up. Taking out the TSA agents, the scanners, the security personnel at the checkpoint, the 20 or thirty people standing behind me and those in front putting their shoes on. I mean you just made my job a cake walk. No one who passed legislation creating the worthless TSA even tried to think about how much easier this would make terrorism. Seriously, didn't. even. try. to. think.
- Retra 10y agoThe TSA was created to stop people from flying planes into buildings. Whatever damage you think you'd do with a bomb at an airport is not much next to what you could do with a plane in the sky. Additionally, you've just blown up an airport without ever receiving full access to the country. It's easy to attack a country's borders, but that's not where the heart is.
- X86BSD 10y agoI was talking about someone inside the US with a departure ticket outside the US. It is also easy to attack it inside. Timothy McVey, Oklahoma city. The TSA does not magically improve if you are leaving the country.
- Retra 10y agoI have no love for the TSA, but it seems ridiculous to believe that threats outside the US are somehow not relevant just because threats inside the US exist.
- linkregister 10y agoI think you're failing to understand the enormous psychological and commercial impact to airplane hijackings and forced crashes. The recent Brussels security line attack had a high impact. However, it didn't approach the levels of the 9/11 attacks. The fact you're making this comment and not mentioning the extremely relevant Brussels attack shows how much impact it had on you. How many others have already forgotten about it? It is convenient to try to "unit test" portions of reality but they really must be taken into the greater context. Terrorists aren't going for a strict body count; they're going for maximum political and social impact.
- myhf 10y agoThat type of attack doesn't scare anybody who works in the Pentagon.