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.
Are you serious?
Just how would the presence of
TSA workers dissuade any terrorist from a
landside assault?
I will concede that the checkpoints
may have deterred a direct approach to get on an airplane, but we don't know since no attempts seem to have been made. In the US. The shoe bomber, underwear bomber and the
faux liquid plot don't seem to have been put off though.