Originally Posted by
Cloudship
So you implement random policies. None of them are really going to stop anything, and you know that. But they are random, so they are not in your face enough to get travelers really riled up. And it makes it look like you are doing something really serious, even though it really is just a bunch of smoke.
Except for one problem. IF, by accident, TSA catches a tewwowist, Jan Nap will be on top of the Washington Monument screaming to the wind "We Gots One." When asked how, was it due to careful planning by DHS brass, the answer will be 'Well, we were doing random stuff and we caught him by doing, em, whatever it was we were randomly doing at the exact moment we happened to catch him by total accident."
"Random" as your official security policy means replacing all TSO with some AARP members, a few volunteer Boy Scouts and two dozen bowls of goldfish will have the same
chance of catching tewwowists as the Professional We Want To Unionize TSOs. "Random" is a billion dollar joke that is not funny.