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Seriously? This gets down-voted? This was a legitimate, reasonable, and respectful comment. WTF.

• mbreese 16y ago
  I think because a lot of people question their effectiveness.
  • roadnottaken 16y ago
    Fine. But you have to admit that there are two sides to this issue: there is a balance of security and privacy. I'm not crazy about the privacy violations, but I don't think demonizing the TSA is particularly useful or mature. I think they're trying to do a difficult and important job that we all benefit from. Perhaps they are over-stepping their bounds right now. However, if there had been another three plane-hijackings since 9/11 I don't think anyone would be complaining. This is the political problem with effectively preventing disaster: if you're good at it you don't get any credit (because there are no catastrophes to remind people of the danger).
    • CWuestefeld 16y ago
      if there had been another three plane-hijackings since 9/11 I don't think anyone would be complaining FWIW, I would still be complaining about them. If we had a 9/11-scale tragedy every year, the real, practical effect of this is a trivial drop in the bucket compared to other issues. Even if we were just to focus on air travel, it wouldn't be that big a deal. There is absolutely no way that it's worth the degree of attention that it's getting, not by several orders of magnitude.
    • gaius 16y ago
      Because the shoebomber and the pantsbomber waltzed aboard without a care in the world despite the enhanced security, and were stopped by passenger action. Post 9/11, passengers know what the deal is. If frisking people stopped even one bomber they'd be shouting it from the rooftops. But they ain't. So the TSA needs to stop dicking us about on the ground since our safety is in our own hands anyway.