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Originally Posted by Platapus
It does seem kinda weird. One would think that a terrorist would want to keep a low profile through security and not call attention to themselves by making complaints.
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Excellent point. However, the TSA doesn't think that way. It's a government agency, and it does exactly what government agencies are designed to do; perform a task whilst abiding by all regulations, paying inflated wages for largely unskilled work, and not discriminating against prospective employees or customers (in this case passengers) no matter what. In other words, it does very little. Expensively.
We can sit here and point out all the ways the TSA does things wrong 'till the cows come home, but without changing the system and the system that put it in place, we're just going to get the same results.
My first thought would be to look around the world for examples of security measures that work. There are about two-hundred countries in this world and tens of thousands of companies that deal with security interests every day. I refuse to believe that not a single one of them has developed a better approach than that of the TSA. Why not find one and copy it? Better yet, why not remove the TSA and the Department of Homeland Security altogether? Just give the whole business over to private companies and let the airports and other private ports of entry pay them, but with the legislative provision that if they mess up even once, it comes out of their pay or results in a revocation of their license. Not the most elegant approach, but at least its better than what we have now.