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Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
Charging him will deter other people from pointing out what the TSA is doing wrong.
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Exposing the flaws in a security system that will never be perfect, and which relies in part on deterrence, is a matter of dubious morality. I personally think this was a stunt, but I imagine that any al Qaeda sleeper cell in the U.S. that wanted to repeat 9/11 would use some dupe to put weapons on the plane for later retrieval by more hardened men, rather than carry the weapons themselves on D-Day.* Those people will profess to be "making a point" if ever caught. The kid was playing a high-stakes game in which he would never be a winner.
*This would be a longshot under any circumstances, but would be quite a coup for Islamist morale if accomplished. More likely, though, that entirely different scenarios await us.
