A year or so after 9/11, my (then) seven yr old daughter and her mother were flying from SeaTac to LAX to see Grandpa for spring break. Daughter had her new art kit in her backpack. When the goons seized her backpack, and began riffling through it, she started to cry. But when she got really upset is when the "officer" told her mom that some of the contents were going to be taken away because they were not allowed.
What was deemed a hazard to aviation safety? A pair of flexible round point plastic scissors you could not cut warm butter with.
This was not nearly as stupefying as what was allowed. A plastic ruler with thin metal edge passed muster as did dozens of needle sharp pencils and the accompanying sharpener with enclosed (removable) razor.
This crap has everything to do with keeping the sheeple in line and ZERO to do with safety.
Absolutely; and get more and more angry, each time I hear some sheeple butt, offer that this is the price of 'security'. It is not; it IS the price of totalitarian Progressivism and enemy appeasement by Political Correctnes and no question, we are well beyond the 'nudge' stage. . .
The terrorists roam free; and if not; they remain free from authentic Justice; and 'we the people' are being made the citizen terror perps and slaves.
Never let a crisis go to waste. . . and this is one of the worst, escalating examples. One thing is certain; it WILL get worse; before it get's better.