TSA drops effort to allow small knives on planes
http://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/flights/2013/06/05/tsa-knives/2393139/
As if more proof were needed of the anti-science attitude of the US population, the TSA, in a laudable effort to reduce (however slightly) the security theater that it is in charge of by no longer regulating knives that can’t possibly be used to bring a plane down, has now bowed to the idiotic pressure by the ignorant masses and left that aspect of the theater intact. The only reason box cutters were ‘successful’ at hijacking the 9/11 planes was because we, as a nation, were trained to give hijackers whatever they wanted no matter how threatening (or rather, unthreatening) they were. Today that ‘trick’ wouldn’t have a prayer to work (indeed, one of the four planes hijacked was unable to accomplish its task because its passengers ignored the threat), there are any number of redneck Americans just itching for a chance to beat the hell out of someone even talking about it. So, instead of injecting some rationality (however tiny and irrelevant), we are going to continue taking our shoes off and having our nail clippers confiscated because we, as a nation, are a bunch of dumb-assed morons.
Ain’t it great to be an American?
