theprof00 said:
The point is, you never know. If we start letting people know that we don't pat down kids or oldies, we may see a bomb. I'd prefer news like this hits and terrorists know it's not going to work. |
You never know. No system ever will prevent terrorism, crimes and other bad things from happen. Even in the socialist/communist countries (i was born in the GDR) existed crimes, the spying didn't prevent this.
But bullshit like the TSA-stuff is destroying the freedom of the people. The terrorists have already won in the US. They disliked the lifestyle of freedom, so they made a terrorist attack - and now the US-government is taking the freedom from the people.
So, you can NEVER prevent terrorism and many acts of controlling people are destroying freedom, so you have to make a weighting - in the case of the TSA the loss of freedom is much bigger than the win of security (if there is any).
And people claiming it is better here in Europe - we may not have TSA, but we have for instance telecommunications data retention. That's the same: nearly no impact on security, but much on the freedom.
As others pointed out: Israel handles the security in airports without something like TSA. And they have a much bigger terrorist threat.







