Originally Posted by
LuvAirFrance
If TSA dismantled the whole apparatus of airport security erected after 9/11, I suppose it would make everyone here happy. But I wonder what kind of economic impact it would have on the airlines. Right now, security theater is keeping the airlines afloat by persuading people not so enamored of flying that it is safe to fly. But would enough of those with a weak attachment to aviation simply bail out to put all the airlines in bankruptcy? I think we could really contemplate dismantling TSA if there is no economic impact. After all, the people who complain most about TSA are already convinced they are on the safest travel mode. No person like that is going to stop flying just because a plane here or there explodes.
Why is it that the TSA apologists always (okay, ALMOST always) seem to want to cast things in a "TSA or no security whatsoever," light, when that is explicitly
***NOT*** what those of us opposed to TSA want? I mean, we STATE OUTRIGHT that we want REAL security, as opposed to the security theater that is all TSA could EVER provide (and it STILL can't manage to do a good job of even that, as evidenced by their own test results!), and still TSA's cheering section insists that what we're demanding is a complete lack of any security, whether real or imagined.
When we say to you over and over and over again, "Black. Black. Black.", and you persist in replying, "So, white then?", what I get from that exchange is that you aren't really interested in discussing the ACTUAL issue. There's certainly room for differences in opinion - it'd be pretty boring if there wasn't! - but stop trying to claim that we're saying something we're explicitly NOT. It's dishonest, and shows a marked lack of respect.