Topic: National News
A Homeland Security report has been released by the Associated Press, in which it is clearly stated that airport X-ray scanners cannot detect possible shoe bombs, as they are unable to differentiate between your footwear's material and expolisve devices. The upshot? It doesn't matter, because you're meant to be treated like a piece of crap and still need to take off your shoes, unless you enjoy body cavity searches.
And you must comply, since it is now mandatory, instead of voluntary, as it was supposedly called before.
Plus, the Transoportation Safety Administration now says passengers will be double screened at the gates. Randomly, of course. Which means that the man in a wheel chair and five-year-old blond boy that were searched in front of us the last time we boarded the plane will probably be stripped naked this time and hung upside down by their feet while a high school dropout searches through the terrorist child's Scooby Doo backpack, taking away his plastic scissors and construction paper.
