Originally Posted by
TheGolfWidow
What this tells me is that even the screeners themselves don't believe they have any likelihood of stopping an act of terror at the checkpoint. As easily drawn into retaliation as they are and as frequently as their attention is diverted by their personal power trips, they allow their time and focus to be consumed with hassling the people who simply want to get from Point A to Point B.
I'm quite sure that all screeners quite readily realize that they couldn't stop someone blowing up a rubber johnny, let alone blowing up their checkpoint to kingdom come. Yet they continue to do what they do every working day. The same thing, over and over, in the same spot.
It's a sad state of affairs really, that low key, non-reactionary and largely behind the scenes security measures were not developed in the days after 9/11, and instead this intrinsically pompous, divisive and money wasting desire to make a huge deal out of the slightest thing and take away peoples rights in huge bites every couple of years became the norm.