Originally Posted by
FliesWay2Much
Velvet, Welcome to FT!
Rest assured that real terrorists would get into the secure areas of an airport by means other than the TSA checkpoint. One lead clerk in Buffalo has already been arrested for assisting a druggie getting through the checkpoint. It's a lot easier to bribe someone than it is to go through the actual TSA checkpoint.
Harassing citizens is pointless, except for the security theater aspect, which is what legitimizes the TSA and keeps the taxpayer dollars flowing.
The stupidest part about it is that, these days, it wouldn't even make sense for a terrorist to attempt to take down a plane. If a terrorist got on a plane (which, if any tried, I'm sure they would - look at the shoe bomber and underwear bomber!), the passengers would stop the attack. Which is exactly what happened the last two times a terrorist attempted to blow up a plane. (Having, of course, evaded the TSA.)
No, there are WAY more accessible, and dangerous, places for terrorists to target these days. Hell, if one just blew up a crowded TSA checkpoint, they'd inflict at least as much damage as blowing up a plane...and send a far more potent message to America about our utter lack of security.