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venomous porridge: An honest question for the TSA

http://venomousporridge.com/post/16922597667/an-honest-question-for-the-tsa

dwineman:

Every day at your airport checkpoints, you screen thousands of passengers for objects that could conceivably be used as a weapons. If you find one, you confiscate it, and the unfortunate traveler continues on her way, cupcakeless but no longer a threat to national security.

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  Thoughtfully written piece on the logical fallacy...TSA screening procedures. For the...
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  TSA because otherwise
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17. surelock said: But couldn’t this argument be made about bringing weapons into ANYTHING (like schools or courthouses)? I agree with the spirit, but the point is that no one is allowed a weapon, white taxpaying dude or otherwise.
18. dig-the-cat said: I think you’re confusing identifying and stopping terrorists with preventing banned items from passing a checkpoint. However the point stands: So are they.
19. langer said: This is a joke, right? Please tell me this is a joke and that I’m just missing the funny.
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  Silly terrorists, Trix are
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  An excellent question,...particular interest to me, as
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46. texburgher said: No bombs allowed. If you are discovered with a bomb, the bomb will be confiscated before you will be allowed to board the plane and proceed peacefully, albeit frustrated and humbled by your untimely defeat at your enemies’ hands, to your destination.
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