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[quote user="Gumby4"]Good evening all! Just got home.  I don't know which organization I despise the most: al-Qaida or the TSA.  One is evil the other incompetent.  Wish I could go into more detail.  As least somebody smacked some sense into the TSA this morning.  [/quote] Gumby hit the nail on the head...but instead of doing anything about it (the stupidity part), we accept it to a large extent as necessary for security.  It is not. Words have been put into frequent media use to make common sense a negative attribute.  If terrorists are trying put explosives on aircraft, then instead of TSA using limited resources searching every single person and their carry on bags for their potential explosives, and causing such tremendous waste in innocent products going to a landfill, why wouldn't the TSA concentrate more on identifying the terrorists and eliminating them from the plane? Does the word "profiling" come across as negative?  Sure it does, because it's usually tied to the word "racial" and that's just a trigger that nobody wants to touch with a twenty foot pole. But the fact of the matter is, terrorists for the most part fit a profile.  Innocent people who fit this profile can be screened with dignity and allowed to proceed with minimum changes.  Procedures can be established that will allow security to focus on the most probable suspects. Too much politics.  Too much political correctness.  Not enough common sense. No matter what you do, it cannot be set in stone, and the procedures must be constantly changing to prohibit the bad guys from circumventing security. There is no silver bullet.  But TSA can exercise more common sense in this instance, stop hassling low-probability and innocent people (the great majority), and focus on identifying the bad guys and their tactics. What we do today in US society is called "shotgunning".  We shoot into the crowd to get the few bad guys...and everyone is wounded in the process.  We do it every day when we create laws and rules meant to stop poor behavior or performance by the few, rules that by design target the innnocent many...instead of confronting the individual who is causing the problem. We have evolved into a non-confrontational society.  Does the almost-a-word "wussie" sound familiar? Bad people prey on wussies.
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