Originally Posted by
JSmith1969
Or it could be that TSA is an out-of-control agency that implements one unjustifiable policy after another based on panic, stupidity, and lies, and we would prefer to have sane airport screening policies that are proportionate to the actual risks facing air travel.
The current version of the TS/S “sane airport screening” is a myth designed to serve no other purpose than to allow folks like yourself to point fingers. No one here has to date provided us with a viable screening method/system that will meet the needs of the nation and still be possible to do. They
always fail in one area or another. And last but not least, the theory that TSA is lying to the public about the AIT systems (and of course the many other claims of this type) have never been proven. That one individual or another makes a verbal error, or writes something that is not 100% lawyer proof, does not make it a lie. Its makes it a statement that someone else does not like and/or makes assumptions about that are
incorrect.
Originally Posted by
JSmith1969
It is not anecdotal to note that by TSA's own numbers, the BDO program is a laughable and pathetic failure, nor that scientists who study human behavior regard it as such. It is not anecdotal to note that countries without a shoe carnival have not had any planes brought down by shoe bombs. It is not anecdotal to note that TSA has been dishonest from day one about strip-search technology.
From your personal perspective the BDO program is a “laughable and pathetic failure”, but then again you do not know the objectives of the program and what the TSA considers to be a successful program. You have your opinion, and you are welcome to it. I see the program in operation and do not consider it a failure. “Some” scientists consider the program to be ineffective, others do not. IOW, opinions vary.
On the matter of shoe bombs, no other country has been targeted by someone attempting to destroy a commercial aircraft using explosives in their shoes. If they have not been targeted for such a plot then I can see why they have little concern in those areas. I know, you don’t.
FYI, there are entire organizations out there that want to kill Americans. They will do whatever they can to make that happen. There have been enough plots and operations directed at U.S. Citizens by these groups to convince most people that a certain amount of prevention and caution is necessary. There will always be segments of our society that refuse to be convinced. That prefer ignorance of the issues to knowledge because it violates their belief’s.