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The TSA's primary mandate is just to socialize legal liability for terrorist attacks away from the airlines. Their secondary mandate is crony capitalism. Thei
by avn2109 10y ago
The TSA's primary mandate is just to socialize legal liability for terrorist attacks away from the airlines.
Their secondary mandate is crony capitalism.
Their tertiary mandate is to acclimatize the population to the trappings of the unconstitutional American police state.
Only the latter would be substantially aided by encroachment onto rail, so I'm not too worried about it for now.
- briandear 10y agoThe airlines never asked for TSA. In fact the airlines would prefer doing their own screening like the old days. And 'crony capitalism?' That makes no sense.
- dragonwriter 10y agoThe airlines asked for both retrospective and prospective relief from liability for the actual past (retrospective) and potential future (prospective) security failures in the wake of 9/11. Nationalization of the security function was the mechanism for the prospective portion of that relief; since they no longer controlled the function, they would no longer be liable for any failures. Now, they would have preferred immunity from liability while controlling the function, but even their allies in Washington couldn't sell that open-ended a handout publicly. But TSA security theater made adequate political cover for the real purpose.