The government exists because it does two things: decides the rules, enforces those rules through violence. It only does the former because it can do the latter. If it loses its monopoly on violence, it loses its ability to decide and enforce the rules and will cease to exist. Border security, such as the TSA, is a mechanism of that violence, as is the armed forces and the police. Private interests taking control of the mechanisms of state violence is a road to the death of the state and replacement with undemocratic corporate and private power systems. It reverts humanity from democracy to tyranny, which some argue is the natural state.
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NPR was promoting this yesterday!
On all things considered, they mentioned the long lines and waits, then immediately started praising one Texas airport that was privatized, and didn't have those waits.
The TSA is nothing more than security theater anyways, but we gotta find ways to funnel money into those pockets already flush with it I guess.
Also consider private security forces don't have pesky things like "oversight" and "laws regulating fairness"
Thata why Flock and Palantir exist now
Blackwater. But let's be real, the gov only has the illusion of oversight. In practice most war criminals never face legitimate consequences. The American military industrial complex is the largest terrorist org that has existed since WW2.
If you add in the fact that US intelligence has allowed child sex traffickers to exist for decades under the guise of "national security", the US gov is the largest criminal enterprise on Earth, period.
Yeah, they didn't have waits because the private company is paying their workers, so they show up to do the job. TSA isn't getting paid, so 40+% aren't showing up.
That is the point exactly
Airport Security before 9/11 looked essentially the same, but they contracted with private security companies. That led to 9/11, so the government took it over and created TSA, and we have t had any hijackings. Now MAGA wants to go back to the system that allowed 9/11, mostly because TSA workers don't kiss their asses.
Like getting rid of the Clean Air & Water Act, because we already have clean air and water.
The TSA has little to do with the lack of hijacking since 2001. Secured cockpit doors and the widespread belief that hijacking means death are the main reasons it no longer occurs.
Yeah the understanding at the time was that if your plane gets hijacked don’t do shit and eventually things will be fine. Post 9/11 someone trying to take over a plane is getting bum rushed. 9/11 could really only happen the one time
Edit: I’m sorry if a plane hits a building in the next two weeks
Suicidal hijackers are NOT worried about death, but they are worried about their plot being fooled. Airport security is tighter than it used to be, so they don't want to risk their operation being stopped before they even get on the plane.
Better to come up with a different plan, with less risk of discovery. There are plenty of crowded places to bomb or shoot up.
There are plenty of crowded places to bomb or shoot up.
Like say airport security lines?
Yep, the simplest crime is the most likely. That’s just people
By your same logic we haven't had a 9/11 style attack before 9/11 for how many decades? And how many attempts have there been and how many have successfully took weapons on to airliners through TSA since 9/11? The statistics and numbers are very much against the TSA. It's a useless for show waste of tax dollars when reinforced automated locking doors on aircraft have proven to be a better deterrent at preventing 9/11.
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