Reply #80: It's "Security Kabuki" sunshine.

[GoneOffShore]

Reinforced cockpit doors, passenger and crew awareness of hijacking attempts and the basic odds put the lie to defenders of the TSA and their boosters.

The "Rapiscan", supplied by Michael Chertoff has been shown not to be effective in the detection of firearms and explosives.

The TSA and the DHS are ever expanding agencies with bad cases of mission creep. Unless they're reined in they're going to be showing up at railway stations, subway stations, bus stops and shopping malls. All under the umbrella phrase:

An abundance of caution.

Actually, they already show up at those locations. Pretty soon we'll need to be searched to walk down the street for a quart of milk or drive to New Jersey.

Welcome to the United States of fear.