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Originally Posted by Brian Carlton
Certain policies are fundamentally ridiculous where the small potential benefit is greatly outweighed by the loss of individual rights and the inconvenience.
One individual managed to put a chemical compound in his shoe. Now, all shoes must be scanned by a machine to look for chemicals. A perfect example of a response that is far greater than the threat.
You have a boarding pass. You show the boarding pass to the agent at the head of the que. You then show it, again, to another agent at the X-ray machine. Why? All of it wastes time and provides very little additional security.
The only thing I can be sure of is the fact that the TSA will overreact to any possible perceived threat, independent of the size of the threat.
Some people are OK with all of it............so they can be "SAFE".
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I agree on a lot of this, but personally ive found things to getting more streamlined since TSA was first started. TSA was terrible early on, but IMO its been improving, even with stupid rules like 25 checks of your boarding pass.
Scanning baggage and walking through metal detectors has been an airport norm since the 70s, at least since southern airways flight 49 and the nuclear reactor threat.
All TSA has done has taken a thousand slightly different screening processes run by independent contractors and made it federal and standardized. I don't have too much problem with that, and lately I haven't found it much different than pre 9/11 security apart from improved technology and having to remove my shoes.