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Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced Tuesday that travelers will no longer be required to remove their shoes when going through Transportation Security Administration security checkpoints at all airports across the U.S., ending the nearly two-decade mandate by the agency.
Noem said the new policy is going into effect at all airports across the country.
Though the equipment installed at each airport might differ, Noem assured that DHS evaluated the equipment at each airport and is “fully confident” that there is adequate security as individuals go through the screening process with their shoes on.
Given all the terrible shit that’s happened in the last few years, it’s easy to forget just how dumb our response to 9/11 was. The founding of the TSA led us to today’s security theater to the max, and the whole “shoes off” thing is a great example. Since I now watch the ABC Nightly News with David Muir — a man whose journalistic credentials might be questionable, but his arm-day workouts are definitely doing the job — I was treated to their coverage of this story last night. Muir’s lead in: “are we still safe?”
What a bunch of cowards we are, in the eyes of the press. No part of the story remarks on the stupidity of some of the screening measures that remain post-9/11. It’s essentially a re-print of Noem’s press conference, with a plug for TSA PreCheck, the epitome of the 2000’s approach to government: the chance to buy your way out of the stupidity of the security theater. There’s even CLEAR, which is deluxe, privately-run PreCheck. Platinum PreCheck, if you will.
Anyway, this just reminded me how the press completely abrogated their responsibilities post-9/11 and they still are afraid to write a skeptical story about 9/11 residue.
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