TSA authorities can fine you $10,000 for leaving the airport

[Clodfobble]

Personally I think the "bad guys" are being short-sighted. You could do just as much damage by blowing yourself up at a major sporting event or at the mall on a crowded weekend, and that sort of thing would have a much greater impact on our collective mental state, since it would convince us that it could happen to anyone anywhere, not just in heavily-controlled air travel. I'm honestly stunned that it hasn't happened yet.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Clodfobble

Personally I think the "bad guys" are being short-sighted. You could do just as much damage by blowing yourself up at a major sporting event or at the mall on a crowded weekend, and that sort of thing would have a much greater impact on our collective mental state, since it would convince us that it could happen to anyone anywhere, not just in heavily-controlled air travel. I'm honestly stunned that it hasn't happened yet.

Maybe because in their world people dying a sporting events is normal. Whereas planes falling is seen as an accomplishment, since all the enemies that have threatened them for the last hundred years have done so from the air.

[Lamplighter]

So the American public is going to buy into these scanners, eventually at court houses
and government buildings, and sporting events and schools ?

I suspect that eventually it will be easier to scare American women about radiation
(genetic or cancer) damage from the scanners than to scare of them about suicide bombers,
and that will be the end of the scanners.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Lamplighter

So the American public is going to buy into these scanners, eventually at court houses and government buildings, and sporting events and schools ?

The scanner at the courthouse is a different critter than the airport scanner, with much lower resolution. It doesn't show the naughty bits like it's big brethren.

[Lamplighter]

Not yet, but coming to a neighborhood near you