There have been real threats, like the shoe bomber and the underwear bomber, but they're not stopped by the TSA, they were stopped by passengers.
They don't even look for obvious tells like: single male passenger, international flight with no baggage, traveling to a wildly different climate. They don't screen people in the effective ways, and they do screen people in ineffective ways. It's the worst kind of security theater: the kind that wastes half your time to maintain the illusionary deterrent.
Yeah, i guess it probably deters low iq. If any of us wanted to get explosives or knives on it would be trivial. A gun is a bit harder.
The easiest solution... and would have cost nothing with some simple rules
- Tell passengers no matter what weapon a terrorist has the nearest people fight them to the death use anything
- Flight attendants one male per flight who is in fighting shape and armed
- If a flight is obvious way to many old people or families air marshal assigned
- Co pilots are armed and trained and their is some type of shield thing that rolls down the aisle with the cart that is bullet proof
It is insane how much money has been wasted
But my conspiracy if the goverment wanted to have a group prepped and ready to watch over domestic terrorist jails or encampment centers the tsa is perfect the biggest losers who follow orders no matter how stupid and evil
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