I know you will find this hard to understand. There are a few left like me who dream of someday living in a USA where the average high school graduate and TSA screener will be educated in science up to the level of a typical Japanese fifth grade student.

Yet you expect your "We Got Stinkin Badges but We Don't Got No Stinkin Science" workforce to operate x-ray machines, WTMDs, and ETDs plus Puffers and sniffers and strippers, Oh My. Some of the latest high tech science gizmos around. I'm beginning to see why the average TSO might have a problem operating them correctly.

Of course, when a one striper knows no science, it is much easier for a three striper to convince him that water is a contraband high explosive.