The Department of Homeland Security, which houses agencies focused on immigration, disaster response and cybersecurity, is on track to shut down Saturday as lawmakers leave town without a funding agreement or a deal that Democrats hope will rein in the conduct of federal immigration officers.
TSA sucks too, though. Security theater that strips travelers of 4th amendment protection against unlawful search and seizure. Tons of shit that isn’t supposed to get past the TSA does and people are chosen at random for enhanced screening where they have to open their bags for no good reason. Also those X-ray machines were never proven to be necessary or safe.
Nah for real fuck the TSA too, they were an overreach during the Bush era that never got put to bed. It was a stealth jobs program to help cover Bush’s shitty economy.
So for real I don’t feel bad that privacy invading TSA agents aren’t getting paid for their 4th amendment breaking jobs.
Haven’t they failed 70-95% of their handgun check tests historically? Yup, security theater.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2008/oct/23/bruce-schneier-airport-security
Having visited the US from outside, it’s not even good security theatre. They seemed the least competent airport security I’ve dealt with. That list includes Kazakhstan and several middle eastern countries.
I mean… That’s why it’s called theater, because its theatrics to make you feel secure but doesn’t actually secure anything at all.
So what those other countries are doing is simply called “security.”
Most of what they do is security theatre as well. They are just a lot more competent and efficient about it.
Had a friend who worked customs. 95% of their actual work was behind the scenes. Most of the public facing stuff was book keeping and window dressing.
“Submit or don’t fly” is now “Submit or die”.
The constitution is long gone.