Security screening protocols implemented by the TSA fail to detect weapons or explosives in roughly seventy to eighty percent of undercover tests conducted by the Department of Homeland Security.

A closer look

Security screening protocols implemented by the TSA fail to detect weapons or explosives in roughly seventy to eighty percent of undercover tests conducted by the Department of Homeland Security. This staggering failure rate essentially proves that removing your shoes, tossing out your moderately priced bottle of shampoo, and undergoing invasive body scans are largely acts of elaborate security theater designed to make you feel safe rather than actually keeping you safe. You are participating in a wildly expensive, globally mandated pantomime where underpaid agents yell at you for leaving a laptop in your bag, purely so society can maintain the comforting illusion of control while hurtling through the sky in a highly combustible metal tube