Originally Posted by
Bart
What I'm saying that is if one young trooper violates the trust placed in low risk passengers by pulling a stunt like this, then punish the violator not the entire low-risk passenger category. It's an acceptable risk. Besides, he's already in deep-enough kimchi seeing as how smuggling Army-issue controlled material is a major league violation of several military regulations, federal laws and a host of other legalities that's going to overwhelm whichever lawyer is gutsy enough to defend him in court.
Problem is, this is exactly how TSA works. You've said it here yourself a long time ago: if one person craps his pants, everyone wears diapers. And that's how it's always been with TSA. One person tries a shoe bomb, we get the shoe carnival. One person tries an underwear bomb, we all get the NoS or an invasive search.
Trusted travelers aren't going to change this. One person does something and TSA goes crazy. That's just how it's been for years, and I don't see that changing. If this program is implemented, it will probably be short lived.
Then again, given all the Bad ApplesŪ we read about in TSA and TSA still trusts them ... maybe not.
I still see this as more of a divide and conquer technique to shut up FF's and their opposition rather than sensible security.