Originally Posted by UAL_Rulez
All of you are utterly wrong about those procedures being designed to appease anybody. They MIGHT be poorly thought out, but none are IMSNHO "charades." Please argue all day long about how they're ineffective (if you think so).
Just one example is the new requirement that all shoes must be x-ray screened. The DHS's own April 2005 report, "Systems Engineering Study of Civil Aviation Security — Phase I," says that x-raying shoes does not discover explosives. In fact, this procedure ensures that shoes that would otherwise be suspect will not receive explosives testing (the swab test).