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Originally Posted by ratbastid
over the top.
It's almost like somebody's testing us to see how much we'll put up with, just how far they can push us in the name of "security". I can picture a cabal of people sitting around a table in a dim, smoky room, muttering about what they can make us do next. Maybe there are bombers out there who are using socks dipped in explosives. We should make people turn in their socks! Ooh, or maybe people with hair longer than five inches won't be allowed to board--all that hair could hide a weapon, after all. We can have official military barbers stationed at every security checkpoint for last-minute trims. Maybe we could make people walk on their hands through the metal detector!
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Close but we don't smoke.
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EDIT: Ustwo, you're a scientist. You know better than to turn correlation into causation. Your gut hunch that the TSA's practices have made us safer go directly against the expert quoted in the OP. It's like if I said I just have this feeling that flossing doesn't make my gums any healthier. I haven't lost any teeth, after all. As a dental expert, you'd know better and your opinion would, in most objective eyes, win over mine. Same deal here.
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If you would re-read what I posted, you will see I covered the whole 'correlation/causation thing. The expert in question is a commercial pilot, that does not make one an expert on security it makes you an expert on flying a plane. I remember the security check in prior to 9/11 I know it now, now it is a bit more thorough. Yes much of it is B.S. but there is a special sort of whining that only having your screwdriver confiscated can bring on. Since no one is willing to really be 'safe' which would include a complete search of all bags, a background check, and serious restriction of materials into and out of the airport, this isn't so bad, but it gives people something to whine about and pretend its somehow a great big plot of some kind to 'keep us scared.'.