More TSA BS

For years I've voiced my opinion that the so-called security checks at airports are nothing more than an effort to make the uninformed feel good. The metal detectors are useless against anyone with a little information concerning plastics. It's simple to make a non-metallic knife and tape it to your body. Today they're commercially available.

Even the more technically inclined can make a plastic gun that will fire non-metallic ammunition.

I suppose those old screening techniques do keep the uneducated from bringing a weapon aboard.

And so now the TSA is going to either body scan or grope all passengers. This invasion of personal space is more effective, but still won't make all flights safe. People do have cavities that can hide plastic explosive.

If anyone wants to be truly safe then all passengers must be naked and submit to body cavity searches.

Another way to prevent hijacking is to allow anyone who wants, to carry a gun on board.
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Related to the above is this story.

It seems a total travesty to treat returning soldiers in this manner. This was a chartered flight containing only soldiers that have put their lives on the line for us. And they were treated like shit. The TSA should be ashamed. After the initial screening leave them alone! Any US soldier with military ID shouldn't be put through the indignity of security screening at all, anywhere in this country.