Originally Posted by Spiff

"This experiment will either fall on its face or you frequent whiners will get exactly what you've asked for and not realize the cost in terms of weakened security."

I think it would be very difficult for the albatross of an agency that hangs around our collective necks - the TSA - to provide weaker security. Since there practically isn't any there in the first place, "weaker" will be a tough adjective to achieve.

There is no sane "criteria" for shoes. There is no volume of explosives that can be hidden in shoes that cannot be hidden elsewhere. It is only the criminally negligent and shoe-fetish perverts in TSA management who do not wish to acknowledge this. And shame on any TSA employee who has swallowed this tripe and continues to harass passengers via the Shoe Carnival. That is truly an example of someone with no American values.

Thankfully, a walk-thru air sample device made by GE is being finally deployed at airports. Read about it here . I sincerely hope that its deployment will bring an end to the employment of all the shoe perverts in the TSA management and also cause the termination of all those TSA employees who have gleefully de-shod passengers, knowing full well that such harassment is useless and un-American.