Hey, My nail clippers don’t count!
How many were deterred?
Number of bombings prevented: Zero.How many would have happened without screening? We don't know. Your argument is sort of like Obama's counting of jobs saved.
I’d like to see the pile of guns and bombs they found so far. Oh wait, there aren’t any.
among the items they are counting are my little 3” combination knife, nail file, shears... which I surrendered each time I used to ride the airlines.... I now boycott... if I can’t get there any other way, I don’t go.... only exemption is death in the family
Interestingly they don't tell you what the items were. A bottle of water? Baby formula maybe? Nail clippers? Was the intent to do harm, our just innocent? Nail file, pin knife, pencil sharpener, razor for shaving?
Exactly. Nothing that was found would have taken down a flight.
Remember they justified doing all this on PASSENGERS because of the CARGO PLANE inkjet bombs.
Yup people will buy anything. Public schools teach people to believe everything people in ‘authority’ say, not really sit there and critically analyze the answers people give them, they are like the goats on animal farm that just parrot the authorities’ answers when OTHER people raise a logical objection.
This is about as useful a report as those “jobs created or saved” reports.
How many safe flights were created or saved by this process? ;-)
Nothing to suggest these new scanners found anything the old metal detectors wouldn’t have caught.
“TSA: New Scanners Kept Many Illegal or Dangerous Items Off Planes This Year”
What? Like Muslims?
That's statistically insignificant. It's so far to the right of the decimal point that it doesn't even matter.
And someone was going to bring down a plane with that, how?
I'm going on the self-declared no-fly list too. Nothing short of a funeral will get me on a commercial plane now, and I'll drive to that if at all possible. Anyone know of any good ways to use up ~98,000 Delta frequent flier miles besides actual air travel?
130 items in 365 days? How many airports?
I mean, a total of 1 item about every three days in perhaps 375 airports? One item per 375 airports every two or three days. Wow, how underwhelming.
How many of those items were likely to be used in a terrorist attack or incident? (HINT: They do not know, because they do not profile passengers, they confiscate items.)
Idiots.
wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww that is really worth the billions we are spending and the personal humiliation of our citizens. They can not justify the expense or the assault on our bodies as well as our rights. This has to STOP NOW.
This is clearly gonna end up with everybody flying naked...
Are lighters still banned? They were at one time. After dumping out my briefcase recently I realized I’ve had at least one lighter in it on every flight taken since 9-11 (I fly three to four times per year).
I got in trouble for getting served a bottle of water ON a plane and trying to take it OFF the plane.
Another occasion in Belgium while getting on the plane she took my Chapstick but let me keep my lipstick because she knew it was expensive. :) nice but ridiculous.
This was the original intention - get contraband, not to catch terrorists.
I’ve got news for the TSA and the airlines. It’s gestapo tactics kept more than that off the planes.
It kept my wife and I off them too. Millions of Americans are now taking a pass on flying.
I will not subject my wife or myself to this barbaric behavior.
I’ve come to realize TSA stands for Touch Sh-t Americans.
Right back at you TSA. F U 2
A dose of herion will not bring a plane down. These people are insane.