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by 908B64B197 1178 days ago
> Its a jobs program for the unemployable. That and political pork.

This.

A simple look at the profiles of known attackers would reveal it's completely futile to screen literal 0-risk travelers.

Getting people to fear and believe that "everyone could be a menace" is a slippery slope and a slap at the core of our legal system (innocent until proven otherwise).

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This misses the point of the TSA:

After 9/11 the air industry needed to convince people it was safe to fly, and what better way to do that than to establish performative safety on the government's tab.