Why The TSA Doesn't Stop Terrorist Attacks

I hear College Humor’s video series Adam Ruins Everything is now a TV show. Here Adam Conover explains how ineffective the TSA is. In case you’ve forgotten, all the stripping and scanning and screening we do at airports these days is because of 9/11. Before that, you zipped through a metal detector and ran your carry-on bag through an x-ray machine. Oh, and most of our bags went in cargo because they didn’t charge extra for them back then.

But back to the TSA. The extra security routines we go through in an airport are pretty much security theater, not to make us feel safer, but to remind us that we are in constant danger of terrorist attacks, and therefore justifying all that spending. (via Digg)