He successfully got bombs in his shoes onto a transatlantic flight and was trying to light the fuse with a match. It wouldn’t light because they had gotten wet. Passengers ended up subduing him. There was / is an actual threat there. Imo this is just so they can get some false flag bombings going to expand executive overreach.
A metal detector would only matter if that were an electronically triggered shoe device. And the x-ray/“scanner”, as mentioned, has trouble distinguishing between different materials and also works best if it is an electronically triggered shoe device. A fuse and a lighter ain’t it.
Again. There are ways to actually be secure. That isn’t what TSA (or their national equivalents) is about.
My dude, the reason we had to take our shoes off was this guy
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Reid
He successfully got bombs in his shoes onto a transatlantic flight and was trying to light the fuse with a match. It wouldn’t light because they had gotten wet. Passengers ended up subduing him. There was / is an actual threat there. Imo this is just so they can get some false flag bombings going to expand executive overreach.
Yes. That is the security theatre part of it.
A metal detector would only matter if that were an electronically triggered shoe device. And the x-ray/“scanner”, as mentioned, has trouble distinguishing between different materials and also works best if it is an electronically triggered shoe device. A fuse and a lighter ain’t it.
Again. There are ways to actually be secure. That isn’t what TSA (or their national equivalents) is about.