TSA to travelers: Keep taking off those shoes

http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20120131_7737.php?oref=topnews

 

Ha! You mean they didn't just rush in and buy untested technology like they usually do?

 

The acquisitions agent clearly has a brain. This is a major problem to Pistole and Napolitano, as s/he is not following in their likeness.

 

Huh. Screener at TUS suggested they were phasing out the shoe take off. She said they were going to start with 12 and under, move it up to 18 and under, and then be done with it. That's what she heard, anyway. I think they just don't want to admit it was an epic waste of everybody's time for what, a decade now?

 

Not only is it an epic waste of time, it has proved absolutely nothing.

 

But the sheeple love it. They think they're doing something "to keep us safe." They think they're helping in "the war against terrorism." Don't take their little pleasures away from them.

 

Not only that, they think other types of security are ineffective for not doing such.

Idiots.

 

And that makes them different from ankle up screening devices how?

 

Recently I had to fly... to get to VietNam.... anyway I flew out of DTW... nasty airport ! I go through the machine after taking my shoes off... which I object to ! Got out of the secured area and immediately took off my dirty socks ( dirty because of the filthy floors ) and put on clean ones... a tse goon asjked my why I changes socks .. I refused to answer or engage in any converstion with the idiot.. priceless look on his face ! I have more respect for a puddle of whale vomit, than for the tse's.

 

They've been saying that for part of a decade.

 

The Shoe Bomber was ten years ago, but shoes were not required to be removed until the so-called liquid bomb plot four years later. So all those years go by, the imaginary Airborne Binary Liquid Explosive Fairy spreads some pixie dust, and then suddenly shoes are now a threat.

Makes perfect sense if you live in Bizzaro World.

 

Or if your sole possibility for remaining employed depends on it.

 

Scuttlebutt!!!

 

Around ~7 years ago I saw some type of prototype shoe scanner off to the side of checkpoint in SEA. It was framed in a wood box and had a plastic panel angled up that one could place their foot on. The fit and finish looked like something out of junior high shop class. I figured it was a magnetometer of sorts, but god help anybody that was irradiated by that contraption if that's what they were really doing.