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That's not what you want. If that happened whatever the TSA is doing will be done by the FBI or some other agency. I don't know what you want; maybe a less in

That's not what you want. If that happened whatever the TSA is doing will be done by the FBI or some other agency. I don't know what you want; maybe a less intrusive trip to the airport? If that's the case fine - but what you want is for TSA to be more respectful of civil liberties. The way you're saying it sounds like you just want the country to be more dangerous. There's no audience for that.

lamontcg 4y ago
If anyone wants to kill a lot of people, disrupt air travel, disrupt the economy and spread fear they can just set off a suicide vest in the middle of a TSA screening line. We're not any safer by having a planeload of people all standing in line to be screened.
- bsder 4y ago
  TSA lines are way larger than a planeload during holidays. Doing things to the TSA line would be far more effective nowadays than doing anything involving planes.
ifyoubuildit 4y ago
> The way you're saying it sounds like you just want the country to be more dangerous It's hard to know what dangers they're actually alleviating. And on the flip side, they create other dangers, like having things in your luggage stolen, causing you to miss the occasional flight, normalizing intrusive government begavior, and in general just adding unnecessary friction and indignity to travel (ok maybe that last one is a stretch to call a danger). Maybe you value these things less than the feeling of comfort that TSA may provide, but I think I'd count myself a part of gp's audience. Edit: not to mention the opportunity cost of all of that tax money. Though there is something to be said for providing jobs... but you can probably think of plenty of jobs programs with a better ROI.
bsder 4y ago
> I don't know what you want; maybe a less intrusive trip to the airport? I want security turned back over to the airports/airlines like before the TSA. > The way you're saying it sounds like you just want the country to be more dangerous. There's no audience for that. You have no evidence that TSA has made anything safer while we all have lots of evidence that TSA has made the experience much worse.
- SamReidHughes 4y ago
  The TSA made it more dangerous because now people drive more.

lamontcg 4y ago

If anyone wants to kill a lot of people, disrupt air travel, disrupt the economy and spread fear they can just set off a suicide vest in the middle of a TSA screening line. We're not any safer by having a planeload of people all standing in line to be screened.

bsder 4y ago
TSA lines are way larger than a planeload during holidays. Doing things to the TSA line would be far more effective nowadays than doing anything involving planes.

ifyoubuildit 4y ago

> The way you're saying it sounds like you just want the country to be more dangerous It's hard to know what dangers they're actually alleviating. And on the flip side, they create other dangers, like having things in your luggage stolen, causing you to miss the occasional flight, normalizing intrusive government begavior, and in general just adding unnecessary friction and indignity to travel (ok maybe that last one is a stretch to call a danger). Maybe you value these things less than the feeling of comfort that TSA may provide, but I think I'd count myself a part of gp's audience. Edit: not to mention the opportunity cost of all of that tax money. Though there is something to be said for providing jobs... but you can probably think of plenty of jobs programs with a better ROI.

bsder 4y ago

> I don't know what you want; maybe a less intrusive trip to the airport? I want security turned back over to the airports/airlines like before the TSA. > The way you're saying it sounds like you just want the country to be more dangerous. There's no audience for that. You have no evidence that TSA has made anything safer while we all have lots of evidence that TSA has made the experience much worse.

SamReidHughes 4y ago
The TSA made it more dangerous because now people drive more.