This is how the government humiliates all of their citizens. The US Government is becoming more fascist each and every day
Meanwhile, they miss 75% of the simulated terrorists in testing.
I sorta don’t want a plane I’m on to blow up.
I would drive 5,000 miles rather than take air transportation anywhere. Driving is tiresome, it is slow, it is expensive, but mostly, you are not constantly humiliated, poked, prodded, and generally treated like a criminal with a warrant out for immediate detention and subject to arrest at any time. And all this is before you get on the plane as a passenger, where you are jostled, forced into a cramped position, and virtually forbidden to move about at all for periods up to several hours. Upon deplaning, you are now forced to go through the terminal to a point sometimes at great distance from the gate, to wait for and reclaim luggage, which may or may not be there, then there is a process, annoying at best and something of a nightmare if real problems have taken place, like routing the luggage filled with really vital items getting sent to another location, or lost altogether, with no opportunity to have it replaced on a timely basis. All this before you get OUT of the airport.
And that is if the flights are running on schedule.