Originally Posted by
birdstrike
Puffers were removed through political infighting. There is no "checkpoint friendly" technology for screening. The boarding area is not the appropriate place to look for threats. TSA is useless as a security measure and should have never been funded. You have to rely on Jedi mind tricks to justify your existence. Come on man.
Sorry, bird, but you are beating your head against the wall.
No one from the TSA will ever admit that the organization they serve is a put up job. (After all, what exactly did Argenbright fail to do on 9/11?) In fact, they will go out of their way to plant the occasional seed of "we are the last line of safety before your flight leaves the gate."
How many times have our resident TSOs dropped into a thread and said, "The TSA is here to prevent another 9/11"? Then, one of us counters with the facts that nothing the TSA is doing today would have prevented 9/11 (for reasons very well known). They then retreat on the issue and wait for another opportunity to drop that blatant lie into the conversation to justify their existence as an agency.
It's completely disingenuous and completely based on motives of self-interest: they want to keep their jobs and the shiny tin badge that goes with it.