Originally Posted by
kaukau
Well, at least he was honest with you. No different than a bartender being forced to ask a 70 year-old for ID proof that they're over 21. Someone in charge of policy has indeed determined that their employees are, as a group, too stupid to apply common sense and make decisions based on their own judgement; so a set of unwavering parameters is instituted to take the human factor out of the equation.
As we all know, from the moronic Kip Hawley "interviews", that Kippie was "told by some scientists that volatile chemicals in amounts less than one quart would not pose a threat to aviation."; so the TSA then figured that if they limited the amount of liquids pax could bring on board to "as many 3oz bottles that can be stowed inside a 1 qt. ziplock bag with the zipper zipped, that the immutable laws of physics would then say that the total volume of liquid inside the bag could never be >1 qt."; and then they could hire anybody to do the checking, without having a degree in physics or mathematics; and we would all be safer for their efforts.
Did TSA ever consider that terrorists Abdul, Mohammed, Osama, etc. could each have 1 qt. bags filled with the dangerous liquids? Under the current TSA screening protocol, each could carry several containers in his own Kippie bag through the checkpoint. Once in the "sterile" area, the terrorists could then consolidate the contents with one terrorist or, to foil the gate checks, just waltz onto the targeted flight. Once on the target airliner, our intrepid terrorist chemists would then mix up a batch of binary explosives with the precursors they carried through the checkpoint in their Kippie bags.
TSA is such a bad joke, but at least it is employing over 40,000 individuals. The economy must be experiencing some stimulus from these workers.