Yeah, stop making sense, it just confuses 'em.
I was thinking last night, reading about the budget and staffing increases, that they're going about this all wrong. TSA puts people at airports (train stations, bus stations, football games, ...) and waits for the traveling public to come to them. Terribly inefficient, really.
Now what if TSA could assign an individual "officer"
to each non-TSA person* in the country? Your Personal Security Officer, or PSO, could accompany you every moment of the day, not only through the airport and on the train, but while you were packing for your trip, or getting dressed, or walking (transportation) to your car (transportation) to make sure that you NEVER EVER do anything that could harm transportation.
You couldn't assemble the ingredients for a mythical liquid bomb, because your PSO would be there in the basement watching what you do. You couldn't hide a pound of C4 in your collar (
) or in a body cavity, because your PSO will be there watching you shower and doing the laundry.
Sure, you nay-sayers will point out that this would require half of the population to be employed by DHS as PSOs. But isn't it better to be safe than sorry? Is any price too high to pay to ensure that no one ever gets blown up on an airplane again? And you'll point out that no one will be watching the international visitors. That's okay, because under this scheme, no international traveler will ever want to visit the US ever again.
I'm pretty sure this is the end game. Go ahead, laugh. You laughed when we said they'd be strip-searching grannies, didn't you?
* You don't need to assign a PSO to another PSO because, duh, they've had background checks.