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You don't get it, the real purpose of the TSA. It's purpose is to intimidate for no good reason other than just wanting to condition the public to being treated rudely while being pushed around by a bunch of low level thugs. For instance, coming into the Seattle-Tacoma airport from Victoria, British Columbia[B.C.] we went thru the TSA gauntlet including taking of of shoes while disembarking. Now this doesn't even make sense. The whole shoe removal should conducted when boarding a plane, not disembarking.Shoe removal was not required on my trip to B.C., or even upon boarding for the next leg of the flight to Detroit. Also, the TSA surly thugs delighted in pushing passenger around just for the sake of doing that. I had some tin foil from gum rappers in various pockets that set the alarms off and the TSA thugs were getting off in the false alarm. Their delight turned to anger and disappointment because their was no terrorist threat. The shoe removal exercise is an experiment by the government to determine just how compliant the public is when pushed around by low life thugs for no good reason. The government is probably delighted with how easily the public can be treated by surly TSA thugs without cause other than imagined threats.
