See? The USA screening is the worst.
The TSA is predicated on several fallacies:
1) The next attack will be another 9/11 with hijackers entering aircraft as passengers.
2) There are not 100 other ways to gain access to airports and aircraft apart from the ticketing/security line.
3) Passengers who have paid handsomely to be flown elsewhere have a desire to take control of a plane and commit suicide with their family members and/or friends aboard.
4) Pretending we don’t know who is most likely to hijack a plane.
5) Taking this pantomime to the extreme ends of the earth by strip-searching young children, the infirm, the elderly, etc. and by control freakery regarding liquids as if 3 oz is some magical threshold.
6) Hiring poorly-educated slobs more interested in government benefits, overtime and retirement than in security.
7) Giving poorly-educated slobs power over better-educated individuals who almost always have a higher socioeconomic status. A reenactment of the Stanford Prison Experiment is virtually guaranteed.
The TSA have been unfit for purpose from the start, which is why the idea of Tom Ridge being anywhere near the Trump administration was risible. They have become part of the landscape but that doesn’t mean they must become permanent fixtures.