I agree about people on the plane preventing it. Pre-9/11, crews and passengers alike were told in the event of a terrorist hijacking to cooperate because they would almost certainly release you when they got to wherever they were going, usually after some ransom was paid. However now, thanks to Islamic extremist…

All that smoke and mirrors must be worth something then, so long as nobody thinks to pull back the curtain.

It’s because none of the people who are supposed to be in charge in a situation like that, officers and their supervisors included, have any fucking clue what to actually do in a real situation. Not that I necessarily do either, but I’m not the one doing that job. If we actually gave a collective shit about real…

It’s all security theater. The best spot for a terrorist to attack is the security line. Instead of just one plane, you get multiple planes worth of people. The government knows that the security lines are vulnerable. The fact nothing is done about it tells you exactly how seriously they treat airport security.

And the world revolves around NYC right? You realize that the average salary for a rookie NYPD officer is only $42 and they put themselves in much worse danger.

I’m an airline pilot for a part 121 carrier in the U.S. and the fact is you’re far more at risk of having a pilot purposefully crash the aircraft [has happened 3 times in the last 5 years] than you are to have hijackers crash an aircraft [last case being 9-11 and before that 1994]. You’re also more likely to have an…

Oh please do tell us more about how the fatties of the world, particularly those at the intersection of socio-economic privilege and Walmart shoppers, are oppressing you.

This is always what I say. You’re not eliminating soft targets; that’s impossible because one of an airport’s purposes is giving passengers a place to gather pre- and post-flight. All you’re doing by implementing security lines is to move the soft target to a different location.

Even as theater, it’s not working. People clearly don’t feel safe. That’s why the panic spread so quickly. That’s why it turned into such a shit show. If the theater was effective, people would have gotten down or taken cover and waited for an announcement telling them where to go or what to do. They would have had…

Point is that the only thing making you safe is the lack of people interested in attacking airports.

Unless there’s a shadow organization that somehow no one has ever heard of taking down would-be terrorists, the only reason we haven’t had another 9/11 is that very few people have bothered to try, and those who have…

People panic when they don’t know what to do. Training is so that they know what to do. I’d be very curious to see where all that “TSA tax money” actually ended up.

To a point. The lack of bombs and hijackings on US planes since 9/11 does show some effect to actual luggage/passenger screenings.

It doesn’t make me feel safe. It makes me feel annoyed.

Ehhh, “their job” is to look for large tubes of tooth paste and “act official.” The rank and file clearly haven’t been trained to deal with situations like this. Sure, their cowardice is disappointing...but not surprising. The blame should go to the (very well paid) TSA brass and their enablers in Congress.

You’re aware that despite the vigilante fantasies of gun nuts online and people that are assured they know exactly how they would react in any given situation, most people have no control over their fight or flight response, right?

But their security measures are so well thought out....

This comment needs more stars. Honestly, people need to calm the fuck down. If you’re gonna die that day, then you’re gonna die. Panicking only increases your chances of that happening. The terrorists are winning the “war on terror” because they consistently make us more afraid than we make them afraid.

Reminds me of gun laws, which are just security theater too.

Funny thing is it doesn't make me feel safe. Standing in a slow moving line with 1-3,000 people makes me feel like more of a target than boarding a plane with no security.

It’s obvious security theater people.