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The Morning Briefing: Airport security

The dagger in the hairbrush was creative. However, looking through the rest of the photos shows how stupid people are. And why do it? Are you so paranoid of hijackers that you need to impersonate one?

just to get on the plane. Are the cattles' knees knocking so badly that they will meekly tolerate every sort of indignity? Apparently. I just want on the plane, without being touched and without removing clothing including shoes. Is that too much to ask? No. It is not.

The full body scanners should make inspections faster & less intrusive, but only if they don't get banned to begin with.

...and yet this is still the state of airport security. We're literally no safer than we were 11 years ago except for the fact that airline passengers now completely understand that anyone who attempts to hijack their aircraft will likely kill everyone aboard, and their only option for survival is to disable and/or kill the criminals before they do so. We didn't need to spend a decade, billions of dollars and abuse the civil rights of hundreds-of-millions of honest citizens to achieve that end.

I can only come to one of two conclusions: The government is incapable of solving any problem.

...or...

The entire point of the TSA isn't airport security at all, but to beat down the citizens of this country so that they'll eventually accept and take for granted literally any level of personal invasion, no matter how absurd or pointless.

I can't wait until these people are running all of health care.

I'm glad that we have nothing that we can use a weapon on board we are so much safer now . Heavy objects that can bludgeon like laptops or carry on bags or belts with metal buckles and that cans that can be twisted apart and used as a knife or power cords that can garrote someone aren't allowed , imagine the carnage if someone who could Box got on board .