War is peace

[sleepyjeff]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

This assumes that Osama and his fans are scared by our lame-ass tactics. It's been proven over and over that these systems suck. There have been tons of reports of people sneaking things into places on purpose to test the systems, and getting through.

The terrorists are not frightened of our pointless bag checks.

Retreating is what America did when they lost the Vietnam War after countless pointless deaths.

Very good point....there really is no proof that any of these systems have stopped anything.

I would not go as far as to call them lame though. The pathetic bag checks, the taking off of the shoes, etc are not really designed to really stop some one from sneaking something past.......they are designed to slow the flow of people and create an obstacle for a potential terroist. The bag checker will not be the one who catches the bad guy...it will be someone invisible watching from a ways away the behavior of those approaching the obstacle(bag check or what have you) We only see the hand that the security wants us(and the terrorist) to see....we don't see everything