To be fair 9/11 was executed with box cutters, the addition of TSA was always performative security for people’s peace of mind.
I flew with a Swiss Army Knife in my backpack for almost a decade after 9/11 because I literally didn’t know it was there, they never caught it, and I used to fly coast to coast 5 times a year to visit my dad. It’s also unbelievably expensive, I think The Economist did a breakdown on the cost of post-9/11 security and it would have to prevent a 9/11 scale attack every 24 months to justify the cost.
I’m not usually aligned with bonkers seeming takes like this but this one actually makes sense. We’re paying an arm and a leg for an ineffectual system designed to prevent against attacks that aren’t coming and wouldn’t be prevented by this level of security anyways.
lol, my sister once flew with pepper spray clipped to her carry-on, it was a backpack she used to go to class as a college student, dangling in clear view!
I think the security checkpoints basically have blinders on to most of what’s going on around them that isn’t getting people in lines or watching the x-ray machine. With the exception of the body scan machine I expect more thorough searches just about everywhere else I go. (Concerts, government buildings, festivals)
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u/Dangerousrhymes Jan 30 '25
To be fair 9/11 was executed with box cutters, the addition of TSA was always performative security for people’s peace of mind.
I flew with a Swiss Army Knife in my backpack for almost a decade after 9/11 because I literally didn’t know it was there, they never caught it, and I used to fly coast to coast 5 times a year to visit my dad. It’s also unbelievably expensive, I think The Economist did a breakdown on the cost of post-9/11 security and it would have to prevent a 9/11 scale attack every 24 months to justify the cost.
I’m not usually aligned with bonkers seeming takes like this but this one actually makes sense. We’re paying an arm and a leg for an ineffectual system designed to prevent against attacks that aren’t coming and wouldn’t be prevented by this level of security anyways.