I never believed official statements on 9/11. No body explained how a skyscraper fell on its footprint even though there was no attack on the building. I'm talking about WTC7. Then they said they had to take down that building. Correct me if I'm wrong but it takes weeks to prepare for such demolition. You can't decide in one day and plant explosive and all these happen while you are dealing with a major crisis like 2 commercial airliners hitting towers.
All this has been a farce. They wanted to paralyze people scaring with stories. TSA is just another tool to do that.
Edit after down votes: What this TSA guys says is correct, it is very difficult to stop any seriously thought security breach. The reason behind existence of TSA as we know it is not what we expect it to do. It is not designed in sprit to do that. That is the reason it renders itself ineffective.
Reply to all down voters. Are you scared to write a reply to what I said? Clicking is easier, and following herd is easier than asking questions with an open mind. Just because you're reading HN does not make you smarter.
Independent of the potential truth of your comments, they're entirely off-topic, which is why there's downvoting. And complaining like that won't help you, I' afraid. Being wrong doesn't necessarily get downvotes. contentless or off-topic posts generally do! But then I'm fairly new here, so I stand correctable. My advice: Start a WTC thread with a good link if you think it's really important!
I think I did not make myself clear. Fair enough. What I am saying that TSA is not capable of doing the job it is expected to do (due to bad hires or whatever other sloppy execution) because there is not much need for that. This is known by their designers and originators (this is the point I am trying to make), and it is just functioning at the very basic level and most of the time in an irritating way (patting down toddlers, etc.). What happened on 9/11 is known by those circles that is why TSA is not taken seriously.
ps. I do not care about down votes. I care about people giving serious thought about what others might have to say. Down voting for me is kind of censorship act. I believe up voting weeds out (pushes bottom) bad comments anyway.
I do not think I am still making myself clear. But it is good that this is happening, so I improve.
If you know where the attack has really come from you do not really invest serious resources on something marginally effective and relative. TSA is that, irrelevant, however it is a tool to instigate and keep alive terrorization. I was trying to explain why TSA is ineffective at the core for the purpose we think it and what the TSA guy could only be correct.
As a side note, I do not think HN is a relevant place to post this article we are commenting on anyway, and in general it is off topic. I started to hang around on HN almost from its first days for the sole purpose of reading about techies and startups.
What's the motive for destroying building 7 when the much larger twin towers had already collapsed? The marginal impact of destroying a smaller building seems completely insignificant. Most people aren't even aware of those smaller buildings that were destroyed.
All I know and say is from the videos I watched, things I read and common sense. I read that WTC7 had offices of the NYC and they were kind of control and observation room of the city. So they say it was part of the evidence cover up.
All this has been a farce. They wanted to paralyze people scaring with stories. TSA is just another tool to do that.
Edit after down votes: What this TSA guys says is correct, it is very difficult to stop any seriously thought security breach. The reason behind existence of TSA as we know it is not what we expect it to do. It is not designed in sprit to do that. That is the reason it renders itself ineffective.