Originally Posted by
stockmanjr
What's the problem with them checking if the ID's are real? I mean if your going to go thru all this Hassle about requiring ID's you might as well make sure they are real! This has no impact on your right to fly without ID.
Cheers
Howie
Well, they're spending $$ to purchase the lights, and presumably time and money on training in the use of said lights, for really no purpose at all. There are plenty of valid IDs which do not contain such marks, which thus would get through the checkpoint still even if faked, for example; likewise, getting a valid ID for a false identity is fairly easy in most places, again proving that ID checks != security.
So it comes down to a waste of time and money, something the TSA has shown themselves to be utterly competent at above all else.