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I disagree, he missed a vital point. TSA: Success The worlds most expensive security theater. Making you feel safer for your troubles.

• mahyarm 15y ago
  Before the TSA, didn't you have to wait in a similar luggage screening line anyway? Other than the addition of the backscatter machine, checking your id before you enter the line and some other procedural changes what is different?
  • saryant 15y ago
    Care to count the billions spent on those "differences"?
  • daeken 15y ago
    Take off your shoes, get rid of all liquids (unless they're in a plastic bag, of course -- those are always safe), look up at the anxiety detection cameras, and enjoy flying in Complete Safety (R) (TM).
  • donw 15y ago
    Having to dig my laptop and iPad out and put them in a separate bin than the rest of my things. Not being able to bring an expensive bottle of wine on the plane.
• mcantelon 15y ago
  >The worlds most expensive security theater. Making you feel safer for your troubles. And humiliating you so you're more likely to accept whatever the federal government doles out in the future. Psychological conditioning.
  • epochwolf 15y ago
    Most of school is psychological conditioning. This would be a wonderful conspiracy theory if the government was a bit more efficient about it. :)
• epochwolf 15y ago
  US Citizen here. I don't feel any safer. I feel like I'm a cow in a herd of cattle. Every time I see the security line I think about how much more effective detonating a bomb in the security line would be compared to crashing a plane. At an airport like Altanta International, there are more people in the line than would be on a fully loaded 474. I'm far more afraid to stand in the line for screening than sitting in a plane. All it takes is one terrorist to get this bright idea in their head and then I lose more of my rights to the next level of security theater. :(
• Natsu 15y ago
  The TSA actually makes me feel less safe, enough that I avoid flying if at all possible. It's like we're trying to replicate the Stanford Prison Experiment at scale. I wish they would focus on things that keep us safe and dispense with the security theater. They should listen to his recommendations. He's saying nothing new here. Every other security expert is saying much the same thing, but is still being ignored.
• smsm42 15y ago
  I'm not feeling safe. When I'm talking to Israeli security who actually try to evaluate who I am and if I'm dangerous, I feel safer. When I meet TSA agent that grabs my ass because his instructions says he has to do that to everybody, I don't feel safer. I feel I just participated in idiotic spectacle. I also get reminded that as a taxpayer I am paying a capable healthy person to spend his day touching other people's asses because instructions say so, when he could actually be earning a honest living instead doing something productive. Feeling safer is never even nearly there.