Originally Posted by
Carl Johnson
The TSA does deter attacks. Why hasn't anybody come up to a checkpoint with a couple of AK's and sprayed the line? Ahmed Ressam wanted to blow up a passenger waiting area at LAX. Why hasn't anybody done anything like that? The TSA causes large concentrations of passengers that could be attacked, but the presence of the TSA deters such attacks.
.... because there just aren't that many terrorists at US airports who are interested in doing the easily done above sort of thing. In other words, no deterrence.
Originally Posted by Carl Johnson
Terrorists want to harm America, and leaving the TSA in place harms America more than any single attack possibly could. An attack on an airplane - or, even more, an attack on a checkpoint - would highlight the uselessness of TSA, and possibly lead to changes. Terrorists don't want any changes to the TSA, so they don't attack.
Clearly some terrorists want changes to how the US does things, including at US airports and with US flights. Evidence of that: even aborted attempts using incompetent clowns is considered acceptable and authorized, upon the opportunity presenting itself to get the US to work itself up into a frenzy and to get the TSA to go into yet another massive knee-jerk overreaction by letting loose.
The creepy TSA is not going to give up its creepy behavior in full anytime soon.