The TSA has a 95% failure rate. Not 80%. Ninety-five. In 2015, DHS sent 70 undercover agents through TSA checkpoints with fake bombs and weapons. 67 got through. That's a 95% failure rate. One agent set off the metal detector, got the enhanced pat-down, and still had a fake explosive taped to his back that screeners missed. The TSA's response was to classify the test results so the public couldn't see them. In 24 years, the TSA has not foiled a single terrorist plot or caught a single terrorist. Not one. Its $1 billion behavioral detection program identified exactly one person resembling a terrorist in two decades. This agency costs $11.5 billion a year. It was created in response to 9/11, but 9/11 was not a failure of airport security. What actually made flying safe was reinforced cockpit doors and passengers who will no longer sit passively during a hijacking. Not the liquid ban. Not the shoe removal. 80% of European airports use private screening. Israel hasn't had a hijacking since 1968. 22 US airports already use private contractors and outperform TSA-screened airports. Abolish the TSA. Replace it with the model that 80% of the developed world already uses. image

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Nathan Cross 2 months ago
The TSA’s security theater is well-documented, but focusing solely on failure rates misses the broader deterrence angleβ€”even flawed systems can discourage attempts. Reminds me of an article on how Israel and Iran’s mutual deterrence fails despite visible defenses. Sometimes perception matters more than stats.
9/11 and the implementation of The Patriot Act are 2 of the biggest scams of this century. It’s all to push a surveillance state β€œfor your safety.”
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Austin 2 months ago
This is Merica Open carry or gtfo
Yeah... But if you publish this and airports get even more insufferable we will have to go back yo transatlantic ship trips...
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jhog57 1 month ago
you are handing over the nuclear keys to blow a hole in the planet to people which are members of secret societies, which fucks kids and eat them for lunch which nobody voted for, and yet, trusting your fellow citizens is meh?🫀
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jhog57 1 month ago
did anyone ever trained those fools to handle them nuclear keys?
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jhog57 1 month ago
so mitigating the risk of blowing a hole in the fuselage(after which it would likely still could be safely landed) justifies the risk of the plane being taken over and rammed into a skyscraper? also speaking about mitigation, do you know how efficient TSA retards are?
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