Originally Posted by SirFlysALot
That is true. The TSA has an impossible task to prevent harm coming to passengers and aircraft. What they are doing is just guess work and attempting to show they are doing something. Yes. Most of it is just show.
Truthfully I may not be able to think of anything else they could do short of each passenger stripping down with no carry on wearing only a hospital backless gown for modestys sake.
But they could at least screen the packages that are placed on board. ID checking? Give me a break. I would bet the terrorists could get a good enough fake ID to buy beer.
The training could be better and they could at least be polite and drop the "command presence" baloney. We passengers are not criminals.
And I reiterate the faulty premise in TSA's screening policies - they focus on "things" or "objects" instead of people. Yes, it would cost more and require higher skills to train screeners in neuro-linguistics, for example, but the likelihood of TSA actually finding someone intent on doing harm to an aircraft would be much higher than current practices.