Reasons to Avoid TSA, part 2
The TSA has been at work for nine years and has caught a grand total of zero terrorists. The widespread view is that this is simply “security theater.” It is a show that won’t make a difference.
At some point, you have to recognize that you simply cannot continue the ratcheting up of privacy invasion. Yes, you can take naked pictures and grope people’s genitals, but that won’t stop a determined terrorist. For example, it is questionable if it would have stopped the underwear bomber and it certainly would not have stopped the Saudi assassin who put explosives in his rectum.
So, if you say we have to be sure to catch every possible person at this check point, you need to start searching up people’s rectum. That may seem ridiculous, but I bet naked pictures and genital gropes seemed ridiculous in early October.
What is needed is a system more like the Israeli one– but politicians lack the political will to do so.