Originally Posted by Bart
Why don't you admit to the rest of your perspective? If memory serves, you believe that any measure of security screening is excessive and passengers should accept the statistical odds that the great majority of them will not be involved in a terrorist incident, making it an acceptable risk (in your mind) at the cost of the relatively few who are victimized by it. You posted that in another thread (I believe it was in the Omni Forum, but could be mistaken).
Hey at least I admitted it. Why won't the TSA admit that it is doing the same thing? Wasn't there a story about RAND study the other month that said that right now long TSA wait lines are actually a more attractive terrorist target? It appears that the TSA has decided that "passengers should accept the statistical odds that the great majority of them will not be involved in a terrorist incident, making it an acceptable risk at the cost of the relatively few who are victimized by it." How dare the TSA place us at risk like this?
Like I said, I just said made a statement about the risk-calculus out loud. It doesn't go away when people don't talk about it. And worse, it doesn't go away when people don't think about it. My sample of TSA personnel, in this forum, leads me to believe that real reasoning about risk is beyond them. I don't know how far up the department chain it goes, but it is sad.. a complete educational failure.