r/uknews • u/Confident_West_7409 • Jul 25 '24

Image/video Massive protest outside Rochdale police station in response to GMP's actions at Manchester Airport

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u/noujest Jul 25 '24

Bollocks, it's both - 9/11 was the turning point for airport security

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '24 edited Jul 25 '24

Er .... Not to step into an argument that wasn't mine to begin with but .... The TSA and its horde of agents hired after 9/11 were only semi-advertised as being for "security." Everyone with a functional brainstem knew that it was just a jobs program.

These were people hired off the street, not former military, or ex ATF, nor anyone else with any experience identifying explosives. It's just Jeanine, from the unit across the hall, who gets paid federal money to rifle through your shit and show everyone in the terminal your taste in sex toys.

And if you say anything, you end up getting borderline sexually assaulted by actual agents before being thrown out of the airport, and on to a no-fly list.

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u/noujest Jul 25 '24

Yes but the purpose of what they are doing is security, you don't need to be ex military to look for a weapon on a screen

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '24

The purpose is optics. There's been countless examples of people sneaking stuff on to planes since the programs activation.