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.
I don't think the people are buying it, this time. Being forced to choose between getting groped or an unncessary dose of radiation of unknown risk is more than the people will tolerate.
I predict there will be a sufficiently large outcry during the holiday season that these new rules will be rescinded by March.
Secret Agent Man: “Nothing that was found would have taken down a flight.”
You can bet we would have heard about it had they actually confiscated enough explosives to take down an aircraft. Unfortunately, they won’t tell us what they found, so these 130 items, a laughable amount given the number of searches performed, could be anything from fingernail clippers to a bottle of sunscreen.
Now that we have reinforced the cockpit doors, ceramic knives, box cutters, and hand guns almost certainly couldn’t be used to bring down an aircraft. Even explosives have to be powerful enough to damage flight-essential components, and that isn’t as easy as some might think. Terrorists could kill innocent passengers on an aircraft, but it would be very difficult to bring one down with a ceramic knife or another one of these prohibited items.
People seem to forget about the inherent weakness of defense, and we’re on defense. The offense gets to pick the time and place of their attack, and we’re busy playing security theater in airport check in lines.