That whole article was a bunch of bull...t.
First he says:
What the traveling public needs to understand the necessity for flexibility. If a passenger asks us why we’re doing something, in all likelihood we couldn’t tell them even if we really did know the answer.
Then at the end of the article he says:
It’s my belief that passengers should be required to know the rules and regulations, considering they’re the ones doing the traveling.
Let's see a show of hands from those who have put on the DNF list because they gave a screener some well-deserved lip.
The bad guys keep testing the security systems of this country. They watch and observe at airports, bus stations and train stations. They take pictures so they can refer back to them. They draw diagrams of checkpoints, x-ray machines, and they are continually looking for loopholes to our security procedures.
Who wrote this article for "Tracy" - certainly he didn't write it.