Will you think im crazy if i am happy to hear this?i used to keep my swiss army knife in my purse and kept losing them by forgetting to take them out when travelling abd now i can use them again, yay!

You know what makes this truly incredible? The 9/11 hijackings were carried out with box cutters, which have blades smaller than those the TSA is about to allow.

Don't get me wrong: I think you *should* be able to carry pocket knives on board. This whole security idiocy was a ridiculous response to what actually happened.

However, this new policy shows just how utterly clueless TSA is. They can no longer pretend to be in the business of preventing "another 9/11". Now they really are just security theater - bloody expensive theater, at that.

Having bungled the airline security mission, they are moving on to preparations for a civil war. Why else is the TSA stockpiling ammunition throughout the country, and buying armored personnel carriers? Really, it looks like they are expecting to fight a large-scale civil action in the near future. Scary stuff...

"The 9/11 hijackings were carried out with box cutters, which have blades smaller than those the TSA is about to allow."

With all due respect, the real 9/11 weapon was obedience-trained passengers and crew. Had there been a Todd Beamer aboard each aircraft, the worst possible outcome would have been four Shanksvilles. Don't get me wrong; that would have been bad, but not nearly as bad as what actually happened.

As for normalizing failure, don't forget that the whole Department of Homeland Security itself is a normalization of failure. 9/11 was able to be planned because the intel and law enforcement agencies would not / could not work together, so the DHS was overlaid on top of existing mechanisms. That did nothing to fix the root problem. The creation of the DHS was a panic reaction, a response to the expectation that the government "do something", and we all know how that usually turns out.

But you still can't bring your full size shampoo, hairspray, body wash, lotion, or tweezers on board because you might.. ya know... bathe... or something.

Knives didn't cause 9/11. Open cockpit doors and the policy of cooperating with hijackers caused it. These regulations could have been eased up in 9/12 with no greater danger to the public.

Mike, Sabrina, and Cousin Dave, please ignore the following post. You get it.

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The TSA was not needed one hour and one minute after Tower II was hit!

The paradigm, the norm, the expected, what everyone was taught to do was to sit down, shut up and wait for the plane to land and the negotiations happen. That was the model from Entebbe onward.

The passengers on board did not really know what was about to happen on September 11, 2001 at 8:46:30 when Flight 11 struck Tower I.

Even the passengers on Flight 175 probably didn't realize what was about to happen when they struck Tower II at 9:03:02.

The Pentagon crash of Flight 77 at 9:37:46 may have been still a matter of ignorance.

At 10:03:11 on September 11, 2001, United Airlines Flight 93 crashed after the brave souls counter-attacked and caused the hijackers to crash the plane.

The time difference is 60 minutes and 9 seconds from Tower II being struck to the crash of Flight 93. The shoe bomber and panty bomber were taken down by fellow passengers as well. Recently, JetBlue's Flight 191 pilot was taken down by the passengers once he was out of the cockpit. Additionally how many times have you heard of passengers' concerns and diverted flights?

The TSA is and has always been a joke, no make that a total stupidity, that has wasted our country's fortune going down a rabbit hole.

If you don't believe me look at the 9/11 timeline.

There will never be another 9/11 style attack unless the attackers can arrange planes full of geriatrics, and even then it would be doubtful.

Oh, and someone brought bombs being an issue. If bombs were effective and simple then the Lockerbie bombing would have been repeated multiple times between 21 December 1988 and 11 September 2001. That's 4647 days or 13 years. Where was the TSA in that time? There was one successful bombing that was done in Colombia and two unsuccessful attempts in that time. The bombing in Colombia was a drug dealer assassination and not a terrorist attack.
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Please tell me where I fucked up in this.

Wrong turn at the corner of Cut Street and Paste Boulevard.

If you're certain your argument has persuasive superpowers, you should loosen its collar and let it breathe a little. Sex it up with some new wordings, etc.

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we do for blog comments. Truly sorry.)