Originally Posted by
birdstrike
Come now, law dawg, you impress me as someone who, like bart, has an appreciation for critical thinking and logical evaluation. cestmoi123 seems to think that a knife with a less than 4" blade is somehow not a knife. blueeyes_austin seems to think the TSA is an effective screening force, despite published reviews. The FAM force has an abysmal cost/benefit ratio. How can you continue to support the status quo?
I make no assertions about the relative benefit-to-cost ratio of TSA. I DO assert that the clear and additional screening mechanisms and carry-on restrictions put in place post-9/11 will have necessarily made the terrorists calculation of the likelihood of a successful assault go down. I'm sure there is plenty of room to make the post-9/11 security system more effective and to do so at lower cost--the liquid ban, for example, seems to me to be a highly dubious endeavor. But I must point out, however, that ban was developed on the right side of the pond, not concieved in the minds of TSA bureaucrats.