Originally Posted by Analise
This is an opinion of which I disagree wholeheartedly. I think those who cry "illusion" are those who are angry with the terrible inconveniences which going through security now is. Such anger and disruption harbor accusations of constitutional improprieties. One could argue the same thing if cops stopped every driver at a particular location on a highway causing huge backups and tested them extensively for sobriety---even though they themselves are tea-totalers.
Are you kidding me?
Analise, do you
really think that the TSA confiscating pointy objects and examining tennis shoes
really makes us safer? I'm not asking if it makes you
feel better (illusory). I'm asking if you rationally think that civil aviation in this country is objectively safer than it was pre 9/11.
On another note from early in the thread, the fact that John Kerry wants to increase TSA screeners is enough to make me vote for George W. Bush.