Originally Posted by
eyecue
It stands to reason though that there must be some form of regulation to the secured area. The ID and boarding pass is that regulation. The other option is that anyone can go out to the gate and that would be too much foot traffic to handle and the cases of theft would go out of site.
Nonsense.
There was not an astronomical amount of theft pre-stupid BP/ID requirement. There is no reason to believe that would be the case now, other than a larger pool of people for the TSA to steal from.